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

LSI reported their fourth quarter of 2011 which ended in December with revenues of $523 million. The quarter’s highlights included: launch of the first 28nm read channel for hard drives, awarded 6Gb SAS controller design for HP’s Romley generation of servers, selected by EMC for participation in Project Lightning, and LSI’s Axxia multi-core processor has

The NVM Express Workgroup announced that they have hit a milestone; a Microsoft Windows driver, Linux Driver, and an NVMe Test Suite. The NVMe specification is being used on many next-generation PCIe SSDs, from manufacturers such as OCZ. Last November, OCZ stated they would begin sampling devices with NVMe support this year, hinting towards a

DataCore has announced that Hitachi IT Operations Analyzer from Hitachi Data Systems now provides detailed monitoring of DataCore SANsymphony-V environments. Enterprises will gain a holistic, single-pane view of their entire data center if a tight integration of the software is implemented, including virtualized storage resources, servers, networks and applications. This gives IT administrators the ability

Fusion-io has announced their financial results for its fiscal second quarter of 2012 which ended December 31, 2011. Fusion-io reported revenue of $84.1 million, which is up from $31.2 million in the same quarter of the prior year, and up from $74.4 million in the prior quarter. The company is placing emphasis on their ioDrive2 storage solution

Samsung has released a new firmware for their SSD 830 line of drives. According to the release notes, firmware CXM03B1Q offers improved compatibility and stability of the firmware update tool, which some users had issues with when upgrading to the CXM02B1Q firmware. Samsung also made the firmware available through Samsung Magician or bootable USB/CD option.

In their Q2 2012 quarterly earnings call, Western Digital indicated 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, WD shipped 28.5 million, compared to 52.2 million in the same quarter a year ago. While WD recovers more

OCZ has released a new firmware for the Octane SSD family that up to doubles random write IOPS performance in some capacities. Firmware v1.13 is designed for Octane SATA 6Gb/s SSDs and is available for download now.