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Hitachi Ultrastar SSD400S.B Enterprise SSD Released

Hitachi has announced the Ultrastar SSD400S.B enterprise SSD, the industry’s first to use 25nm SLC NAND. The second generation SSD400S.B leverages a SAS 6Gb/s interface and supports Trusted Computing Group’s Enterprise A Security Subsystem Class encryption specification, which helps protect data and reduces the cost associated with SSD reuse and eventual retirement. Hitachi also offers

Enterprise

Kroll Ontrack Announces New SSD Recovery Capabilities

Kroll Ontrack, provider of data recovery solutions, information management, and legal technologies products and services, have announced that it has developed unique, proprietary capabilities to drastically improve the quality of data recovery from SSDs in less than a quarter of the time usually required. Engineers at Kroll Ontrack had to overcome a number of obstacles

Enterprise  ◇  HDD

EMC VFCache Server Caching Solution Announced

EMC Corporation has announced the EMC VFCache, a new server Flash caching solution. VFCache and EMC Flash-enabled storage systems significantly improve application performance by leveraging intelligent software and PCIe Flash technology; tests have resulted in increased throughput of up to 3X while reducing latency by 60%. With this announcement, EMC is extending Flash technology servers

Consumer  ◇  SSD

Nexsan Flexible Storage Platform Chosen by BYU

Nexsan has announced the department of computer science at Brigham Young University (the US’s largest religious university and the third largest private university in the country) has integrated Nexsan’s Flexible Storage Platform to support its multi-purpose storage infrastructure. The Flexible Storage Platform was chosen to support the department’s virtualized operating environment with high capacity storage

Enterprise  ◇  HDD

Micron CEO Steve Appleton Dies in Airplane Accident

Micron has released a statement indicating their Chairman and CEO Steve Appleton has been killed in a small aircraft accident. Reports indicate he was in an experimental single engine Lancair aircraft that crashed at the Boise airport around 9am MST this morning.

Enterprise  ◇  Storage Adapters

Infortrend Announces 48-Bay Storage Solutions In EonStor DS Family

Infortrend has announced the addition of new high-density storage solutions in its EonStor DS family. These new solutions aid customers meet extreme capacity requirements with 48 drive bays in a 4U form factor, in addition to offering outstanding cost efficiency. The new systems are equipped with hybrid Fibre Channel (FC)/iSCSI host connectivity for cost-effective remote

Enterprise  ◇  Enterprise Storage

Transcend SSD720 SATA 6.0Gb/s SSD Announced

Transcend Information has announced the launch of its new, next generation SSD720 SATA III 6GB/s SSD. The SSD720 delivers significantly improved performance over standard rotating hard drives and its focus on productivity-enhancement is the ideal solution for demanding system applications, such as specialized multimedia computing and serious gaming.

Fusion-io ioMemory Technology to be Integrated With InFrame Designs Appliances

Fusion-io has announced that InFrame Designs, provider of custom-built media servers to accelerate playback of video at live media events, has integrated Fusion’s ioMemory technology in its appliances to reduce latency by up to 100 times compared to its previous architecture. With this drastically improved latency and an additional six-fold application performance improvement by Fusion-io

Enterprise  ◇  Software

CommVault Simpana Software Innovations Released

CommVault is set to unveil its next-generation of Singular Information Management innovations at SolveForward 2012 today, which will allow Simpana software customers to further lower their data management costs, reduce business and compliance risks, and easily extract data for improved decision making with anywhere, anytime information access. In addition, it helps increase protection and management