Samsung Electronics has announced it has acquired the privately held storage caching software specialist, NVELO. SSD caching has become a preferred business solution by intelligently managing and optimizing the use of SSDs in the storage subsystem. In operation for two years, NVELO is a leading vendor of caching software, particularly with client SSD vendors. Its

Seagate Technology has announced the Seagate Video 2.5 HDD, a 2.5-inch drive specifically designed for 24/7 video applications such as DVRs, set-top boxes, and surveillance applications. The Video 2.5 HDD boasts high performance in three key areas of importance to manufacturers: high reliability, acoustics, and energy efficiency. Based on current configurations, the new drive has

Kingston has announced the addition of a 128GB capacity to the Wi-Drive product line, allowing even more sharing on Wi-Fi enabled devices. This compliments the existing 32GB and 64GB capacities, which essentially helped to create a new market of WiFi enabled storage. Kingston leveraged their pedigree against competitors with design features such as their decision

Unitrends, provider of all-in-one backup, archiving, instant recovery and disaster recovery solutions, has announced Unitrends Release 7.0. This next generation software powering of physical and virtual backup and recovery appliances boasts data protection in virtualized and cloud environments, all the while providing an expanded range of platform and enterprise application support.

Pure Storage today announced new all-flash VMware-certified FlashArray VDI reference architectures and starter kits designed to deploy for less than $100 per seat. VDI Starter Kits can support a pilot for hundreds of users that later scales to more than five thousand users. Pure Storage’s VDI environments are intended for applications that range from traditional, stateless

Plextor, developer and manufacturer of high-performance digital media and storage equipment, has announced the availability of the 100K Xtreme firmware update for the M5 Pro SSD. The Plextor M5 Pro Xtreme update enables the SSD to deliver random-read speeds up to 100,000 IOPS as well as improved maximum random-write speeds at 88,000 IOPS. It also

EMC has announced general availability of Atmos 2.1, including details on several new features for Atmos that were not available when the 2.1 update was first announced in May. Atmos G3-Dense-480 hardware with a new x86 Intel architecture and a new release of Atmos GeoDrive Windows 1.1 round out the Atmos enhancements.

QNAP Systems has announced the release of TV Station, adding to Turbo NAS users’ multimedia experience of watching and recording TV online. The TV Station gives customers an economical solution to record their digital TV programs and to share live or recorded contents with multiple members simultaneously. This is an attractive option for TV fans,

LaCie has announced that its popular desktop hard drive, the d2, now features USB 3.0 and Thunderbolt connectivity and new 4TB 7200rpm hard drives. The d2 boasts speeds up to 180MB/s, which is about twice as fast as FireWire 800 and almost four times faster than USB 2.0. This performance enhancement allows users to transfer