Toshiba has announced their MKx001GRZB enterprise SSD (eSSD) has won a Grand Prize for Excellence in Energy Efficiency and Conservation from the Energy Conservation Center in Japan. The testing took into account not just straight power consumption, but the popular performance per watt, generally measured as IOPS/watt when computing TCO in the enterprise.
OCZ announced the Z-Drive R4 CloudServ PCIe SSD, with capacities topping out at 16TB. Aimed specifically at cloud computing applications, the CloudServ is able to accelerate virtualized applications and reduce operating expenses in the data center. The Z-Drive R4 CloudServ is able to drive speeds of up to 1.4 million IOPS and when combined with
Fusion-io has announced that Host Europe, a European managed cloud service, has integrated Fusion ioMemory technology to virtualize gaming databases. This change in their data centers was aimed to reduce infrastructure and costs all the while increasing virtualized database performance capabilities, which results in competitive pricing for their customers.
A collaboration of storage industry leaders from Compellent, HP, LeftHand Networks, LSI and Sun have announced the Starboard Storage Systems, an innovator in Application-Crafted Storage systems for mixed workloads for small and medium enterprises (SMEs). Starboard Storage Systems is led by CEO Victor Walker, from Sun, CMO Karl Chen, from LeftHand Networks, VP or product
CMS Products and Wave have announced availability of the first-ever external self-encryping drive (SED) that meets the Opal standard, the CE Secure DiskVault Wave Edition. The external hard drives will ship with Wave’s EMBASSY Trusted Drive Manager software for activating the drive’s advanced security features. The drive will be available in a 500GB capacity (CE-DVLTW-500).
Amazon has a gold box offer today on the OCZ Agility 3 SSD. The deal is for the 90GB capacity – $99.99 with no rebates which is $40 less than current street price. The Agility 3 uses a SandForce SF-2281 processor and asynchronous NAND to crank out advertised speeds up to 525MB/s read and 500MB/s writes. In
Riverbed Technology has announced edge virtual server infrastructure (edge-VSI), a new architectural approach that allows IT to consolidate and manage all edge servers in the data center. Unlike desktop infrastructure (VDI) edge-VSI accomplishes this consolidation while delivering 20-50% lower total cost of ownership. With Riverbed Granite global enterprises have the ability to achieve total consolidation
Supporting both Fibre Channel and iSCSI networks simultaneously, the AC&NC JetStor 724iF Hybrid RAID system decreases connectivity costs and simplifies management of storage networks. Servers requiring high-bandwidth access, including database applications, can now easily and more efficiently share storage access through inexpensive iSCSI connections and at greater distances.
IBM has announced several key improvements to its XIV Storage System Gen3 including a new SSD caching option that can increase system performance by up to three times, as well as a new iPhone app that allows people monitor their XIV storage environment wherever they go. With SSD caching, the most frequently used data is
Texas Memory Systems (TMS) has announced their partnership with NEVEX Virtual Technologies, a Toronto-based developer of application optimized caching solutions, to develop joint solutions that will supercharge the performance of VMware and Microsoft Hyper-V virtual applications implemented on TMS’ Flash-based SSD storage devices.
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