OCZ Technology has announced that its Deneva 2 Series SSDs will be used as the storage device of choice in a pending ‘Data-Scope’ research project at The Johns Hopkins University (JHU), which will be used to create servers for scientific data processing. The project will be led by Dr. Alexander Szalay, Alumni Centennial Professor in the university’s

GridIron Systems has announced that its TurboCharger SAN acceleration appliance has been certified as interoperable with NetApp unified storage solutions. Customers running high-performance databases for applications, like Online Transaction Processing (OLTP) and Decision Support Systems (DSS), now have a cost-effective option for accelerating application performance and supporting more concurrent users and applications. Installing the TurboCharger

LSI has launched a revamped portfolio of storage solutions around PCIe SSDs, caching and RAID products. Originally coined the WarpDrive 2, the 2nd-generation WarpDrive falls under the new LSI product family as the LSI Nytro WarpDrive. The rest of the portfolio takes on LSI Nytro branding and includes the Nytro XD PCIe SSD with intelligent caching

OCZ Technology has announced that the company’s enterprise class Deneva 2 SSDs will be equipped within the newest NuVola Private Cloud Platform Solution Appliance – SAN Velocity powered by Fujitsu, which also uses Assurance Storage’s ApplicationSmart software.

Avere Systems has announced a new NAS architecture that will ensure that enterprise IT is best positioned to leverage the performance benefits of Flash, the consolidation benefits of virtualization, and the collaborative and economic benefits of the cloud. The new architecture for NAS boosts performance and removes storage bottlenecks created by legacy NAS architectures using

STEC has announced that its flagship enterprise-class ZeusIOPS SSDs are now qualified across the complete NEC M-Series disk array platform, including M100, M300 and M500 products. The integration of STEC’s ZeusIOPS SSDs into the next-generation NEC Storage M-Series platform supplements storage area network (SAN) applications such as enterprise virtualization, server consolidation and cloud computing all

Modular Data Protection Services (DPS), provider of cloud data protection for the mid-market, has announced the availability of its new comprehensive cloud-data protection strategy, the Modular 360° Partner Program. Designed for anytime, anywhere recovery-on-demand and to speed deployment for comprehensive cloud-data protection, the Modular 360 Partner Program integrates best-in-class hardware with industry leading software and

Nirvanix has announced the availability of direct connections to its Cloud Storage Network in Equinix International Business Exchange (IBX) data centers. New and existing Equinix customers will be able to establish a private network connection between their owned or managed IT infrastructure and the Nirvanix Cloud Storage Network in the same data center with a

Many IT managers have been hearing about the benefits (low power, high IO bandwidth, low latency) of adding SSDs to their existing system to improve IO speed and application performance. They have also heard about some of the issues associated with adding SSDs such as high cost, device wear and data organization disruption. Still, SSDs