In their Q2 2012 quarterly earnings call, Seagate indicated total drive shipments in the quarter that ended in December were roughly 119 million units, which included a pre-flood inventory of 11 million drives. Of those drives, Seagate shipped 47 million, compared to 48.9 million in the same quarter a year ago. Looking forward, Seagate still
SGI has announced the Modular InfiniteStorage, an integrated server and storage platform designed to provide Cloud and data storage customers that provides unique flexibility, adaptability, and scalability for compute and data management applications. SGI’s single modular platform has the ability to address a wide range of storage and application needs to meet virtually any business
PMC has announced the release of its 12Gb/s SAS protocol controllers, RAID-on-Chip (RoC) controllers, and expanders to enable advanced performance and scalability for server and networked storage. High-performance SSDs can deliver upwards to 100 times more IOPS than HDDs, creating the need for a new class of storage controller. PMC’s SAS controllers are capable of
EMC announced the EMC Isilon scale-out NAS with HDFS, which when used with EMC Greenplum HD, it has the ability to deliver powerful data analytics on a flexible, highly-scalable, and efficient storage platform. The new enterprise-ready solution combines scale-out NAS data storage and Hadoop analytics capabilities with services, training and certification, and customer support from
Nimbus Data Systems, developer of Sustainable Storage, has unveiled its new E-Class Flash Memory System, the first fully-redundant multiprotocol solid-state SSD storage system. The E-Class outperforms and costs less to operate than typical disk arrays and provides the high-availability, scalability, and cost reduction that enterprises and cloud providers require.
GridIron Systems has announced its membership in the NetApp Alliance Partner Program. GridIron has been working with NetApp to integrate its TurboCharger SAN acceleration appliance into NetApp unified storage environments. This collaboration will allow customers to increase application performance while supporting more concurrent users and applications without disrupting operations. As a result, customers can analyze
Wave Systems Corp. has announced the launch of Wave Encryption Service (WES), a scalable, yet powerful, subscription-based service for data protection. The new service enables organizations and businesses to centrally enforce strong data-encryption policies on laptops across their organizations to secure data and meet compliance regulations without the complexity and cost related to an on-premise
OWC announced at Macworld that its OWC Mercury Aura Pro Express 6G SSD is now available with Toggle NAND for the latest MacBook Air 11.1" and 13.3" models. This change is similar to the upgrade that OWC made switching to Toggle NAND on the Mercury Extreme Pro 6G SSD. The new Mercury Aura Pro Express
ISCorp announced they have deployed the Dataram XcelaSAN storage optimization appliance to improve networked SAN performance during peak times where current equipment couldn’t keep up. Paired with Dataram’s Acceleration on Demand subscription program, where companies get the benefits of the XcelaSAN without any capital expenditure but instead a monthly fee, the XcelaSAN solution was able
Western Digital is showing off their new line of external hard drives with Intel’s Thunderbolt interface. When four 6TB enclosures are daisy-chained together, WD showed throughput of 1,000 MB/s. The My Book Thunderbolt Duo has not formally been announced by WD yet, but the drives were shown off at CES and Macworld. Up to six
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