LaCie has announced that its professional 5-bay RAID server is now available in a diskless model gibing users all the benefits of the 5big Network 2, but with the flexibility to scale their storage and security as needed.

Following hot on the heels of their more PC-centric 2TB My Passport portable hard drive with USB 3.0, Western Digital has released a new high-capacity Mac-friendly version of the portable hard drive. The new WD My Passport Studio is the first 2TB portable hard drive designed with Mac users in mind. Much like the 1TB version, the 2TB

Quest Software has announced the availability of vFundamentals, a new product suite that delivers best-in-class backup, capacity planning, and resource optimization for VMware virtual environments. vFundamentals gives virtualization administrators the ability to grow their virtual environments knowing, with confidence, that critical assets are properly utilized and protected. Quest’s new bundle includes Quest vRanger Pro, a

Hitachi has announced their next generation enterprise hard drive, the Ultrastar 7K4000. The most obvious change is the 1TB capacity bump over the Ultrastar 7K3000, but this is no insignificant matter. The 33% capacity boost in the same 3.5″ form factor gives enterprise users the opportunity to lower their cost/GB as the new Ultrastar 7K4000

Symantec has announced Veritas Dynamic Multi-Pathing for VMware to help organizations improve storage I/O performance and availability for VMware vSphere when customers move their tier one applications to virtual platforms with its better visibility and management of the underlying storage and improved availability of the virtual machine and applications. Dynamic Multi-Pathing for VMware automatically routes

StorSimple has announced their new extended family of cloud-integrated enterprise storage appliances, including the StorSimple 5020, 5520, 7020, and 7520 with their latest software version 2.0. With the newest software, the appliances support larger enterprise workloads as well as an increased storage capacity up to 100TB of local storage. Leveraging these new capabilities, the StorSimple

Code 42 Software has announced the release of CrashPlan PROe 3, its updated enterprise backup solution. The PROe 3 features new hybrid architecture, dynamic data balancing, secure mobile access with one-touch update, and powerful new management and deployment tools, allowing enterprises greater levels of security, flexibility, and efficiency with their data backup.

OCZ Technology has announced that its Deneva 2 Series SSDs will be used as the storage device of choice in a pending ‘Data-Scope’ research project at The Johns Hopkins University (JHU), which will be used to create servers for scientific data processing. The project will be led by Dr. Alexander Szalay, Alumni Centennial Professor in the university’s

GridIron Systems has announced that its TurboCharger SAN acceleration appliance has been certified as interoperable with NetApp unified storage solutions. Customers running high-performance databases for applications, like Online Transaction Processing (OLTP) and Decision Support Systems (DSS), now have a cost-effective option for accelerating application performance and supporting more concurrent users and applications. Installing the TurboCharger