Synology has released the DS1812+, their first eight-bay DiskStation. The freestanding NAS supports up to 32TB of storage natively with 4TB hard drives, along with up to another 40TB using two five-bay DX510 expansion units. While designed for the SMB user the DS1812+ still provides great support for products like VMware, Citrix Xen and Microsoft’s

Icy Dock has announced the MB082SP EZ-FIT PRO, the newest product in the SSD/HDD bracket and converter line. The EZ-FIT PRO is a full metal dual 2.5" to 3.5" bracket with a matte black finish, featuring a quick and easy installation requiring no tools or screws when installing or changing your HDDs/SSDs. Its durable design

HighPoint announced a new DIY SSD caching product called the RocketCache 3240X8, giving buyers a new flexible and affordable alternative to locked caching solution currently on the market. While current caching products are tied to using specific hardware or software, in cases such as the OCZ Synapse Cache or OCZ RevoDrive Hybrid, the RocketCache 3240X8

Fusion-io has announced Webair has deployed Fusion ioMemory storage solutions for their web hosting and infrastructure services business. Webair selected the Fusion-io product to accelerate response times, providing customers with rapid I/O speeds to cloud-based database servers.

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