Avere Systems has announced that Digital Domain Productions, a digital production company founded by James Cameron, has implemented Avere FXT Series NAS appliances at a Las Vegas co-location data center to maximize IOPS and minimize latency of its cloud-based infrastructure, ensuring quick access to their computer-generated imagery data.

Asigra, provider of Cloud Backup, recovery, and restore (BURR) software, has announced a new enterprise-class service provider solution engineered to enable premier end-to-end data protection services. The Asigra and NetApp Data Protection as a Service (DPaaS) joint solution provides accelerated time-to-market and revenue for service providers who are new to the cloud backup market and

Marvell has reported their latest quarter with revenues of $743 million, a 22% decrease over the prior quarter. Marvell’s declines were largely driven by lower hard drive shipments, thanks to the flooding in Thailand that has disrupted the hard drive business for the last several months. Marvell does see a strong recovery in the hard

Synology has announced the latest products in its high-performance XS series, the DS3612xs and RS3412RPxs. Both models boast 100,000 IOPS, have transfer rates over 1,000 MB/s when equipped with optional Emulex or Intel 10GbE interface cards, and can easily scale to over 100TB in storage. The XS series is also compatible with VMware vSphere 5

GreenBytes has announced the Solidarity; a high availability (HA), globally optimized SSD storage array with capacities greater than its competitors. Designed to meet the needs of the small and medium enterprises, Solidarity features the GreenBytes Globally Optimized Operating System (GO OS), including inline real-time deduplication and compression. Additionally, it packages enterprise-class features into an SSD

Fusion-io has announced that Japanese social gaming company Drecom is using Fusion ioMemory to power its MySQL database environment. After determining that traditional SSD solutions did not meet its performance and reliability requirements, Drecom turned to Fusion-io technology to alleviate the problem.

Smart Storage Systems has expanded their line of enterprise SSDs with the Optimus Ultra SSD, their first to use Smart’s proprietary Guardian Technology. This new SAS drive leverages consumer-grade MLC NAND but still achieves astounding endurance metrics, with support for 25 full drive writes per day, for the five year life of the drive. The

Imation has announced the DataGuard; new purpose-built backup appliances that enable small and medium-sized businesses to protect their valuable information with multiple levels of data protection from a single backup infrastructure. The DataGuard Model R4 and DataGuard Model T5R appliances use hard drives, removable RDX disk cartridges, replication, and cloud storage to deliver affordable enterprise-strength

Hitachi has announced their second-generation 7mm 7200RPM 2.5-inch hard drive, the Travelstar Z7K500, aimed at the UltraBook and thin computing categories. Offering single-platter capacities up to 500GB, the drive includes a SATA 6Gb/s interface that can push transfer speeds up to 171MB/s. Hitachi sees the emerging UltraBook market to be the greatest potential for this