HighPoint Technologies has announced a new low-cost, SAS 6Gb/s HBA product line, the Rocket 2700 HBA series. HighPoint’s Rocket 2700 Series will aim to be the most affordable, professional storage SAS/SATA 6Gb/s controllers on the market, ideal for entry-level SMB applications.

Iomega has announced the global launch of the Iomega StorCenter PX Server Class Series of network storage products, a new line of high-performance desktop and rackmount NAS devices using server class drives. The StorCenter PX Server Class Series offers the highest levels of performance and advanced data protection for small to medium-sized businesses, remote offices,

HP has announced the P4900 SSD G2 6.4-TB SSD Storage System, an all-solid state drive array, at its Global Partner Conference. HP’s new Storage System is a part of the company’s LeftHand Network P4000 family.The P4900 uses SAN/iQ 9.5 software to monitor the health of the SSD called the HP SMARTSSD Wear Gauge. It has

Teradata, a analytic data solutions company, has announced that the Teradata Data Warehouse Appliance 2690 is now available for worldwide shipment. The Teradata Data Warehouse Appliance is a fully integrated analytical platform designed to deliver double the performance with up to triple the data capacity of its predecessor.

SanDisk announced today announced the acquisition of the flash-caching company FlashSoft. FlashSoft is currently known for their aptly named FlashSoft SE 2.0 software, released late last year, which utilizes enterprise SSDs (SATA/SAS and PCIe) for persistent read/write cache to accelerate I/O performance on host systems. Under a Windows environment, the software is claimed to offer

Stealth Startup Tegile Systems has publicly launched, announcing the availability of their Zebi hybrid storage arrays. The Zebi arrays are designed to accelerate applications up to five times while reducing storage capacity needs by up to 75%. Zebi is able to boast these gains thanks to on the fly de-dupe and compression, something Tegile feels

SanDisk has announced the SanDisk X100 SSD and SanDisk Extreme SSD for the consumer market. The X100 is available in capacities of up to 512GB and uses multi-level cell (MLC) technology, a SATA 6Gb/s high-performance interface, advanced multi-streaming features, and tiered caching technology. The Extreme SSD is targeted towards enthusiasts, delivering sequential read speeds up

EMC has announced version 9.0 of its ITOI solution, designed for effective and efficient management of virtual data centers and cloud environments. ITOI 9.0 extends the management capabilities of VMware vCenter Server, delivering complete and unified view into the entire virtual data center infrastructure to its users, including the interrelationships that exist among physical and

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.