At 0.55 inches thick and just over half a pound in weight, Samsung’s new SE-218BB is the world’s thinnest external DVD writer, which should make a splash in the ultrathin notebook and tablet marketplaces. Samsung powers the drive with a single USB port, making it more friendly with port constrained mobile devices that continue to

Fujitsu has announced the availability of new offerings that help customers utilize big data, with additional products gradually rolling out worldwide. The new solutions are part of two product families: a line of parallel distributed processing and complex event processing products and a line of products to employ big data itself. These products are a

Smart Storage Systems has introduced the CloudSpeed 500 Server-class SSD built with higher endurance to improve user TCO versus client-class drives used in server environments with a consumption model. With its SMART Guardian Technology, the CloudSpeed 500 delivers up to five times more endurance than server class SSD’s at consumer MLC value by leveraging cost

CommVault has announced an expanded partnership Microsoft to offer Simpana cloud backup and archival with Windows Azure providing the data storage infrastructure. This increased collaboration will enable CommVault’s customers to benefit from Windows Azure’s economies of scale and flexibility for both storage and computation. Together, CommVault and Microsoft will deliver archiving and backup capabilities for

The Hitachi Content Platform (HCP) is Hitachi’s enterprise-class storage platform for storing and managing block, file and object data. Today, Hitachi has announced enhancements for managing unstructured data growth, maintaining content security in shared storage environments, and streamlining traditional, cloud computing and distributed data storage environments.

Teradata’s new Teradata 700 appliance is launching as part of an integrated offering, SAS High-Performance Analytics for Teradata, which uses in-memory analytics to distribute big data and data warehousing analytics in parallel across a pool of memory. The Teradata 700 is pre-loaded with SAS High-Performance Analytics and purpose-built to leverage SAS advanced analytics.

LSI has announced the AXE2502 Axxia communication processor, designed to accelerate networking in enterprise and cloud datacenters by offloading complex networking tasks from servers and networking equipment.

SolarWinds’ Virtualization Manager now allows users to manage both VMware and Microsoft Hyper-V environments from a single pane of glass. Diversification of virtualization tools means that multi-platform virtualization management products have an advantage in the marketplace. While multiple hypervisors within an organization isn’t unusual, SolarWinds is betting that allowing users will be drawn to the

Nimbus Data has earned the first Citrix Ready certification for multiprotocol high-availability flash memory systems. This certification will be essential for Nimbus’ continued growth in the Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) market, including XenDesktop and XenServer solutions. The Citrix Ready program identifies trusted third-party products for virtualization, networking and cloud computing solutions.