To meet the requirements from regulatory agencies for the planned Western Digital buyout of Hitachi Global Storage Technologies (HGST), Western Digital has agreed to sell off certain assets to Toshiba. This deal will allow Toshiba to manufacturer 3.5-inch hard drives for the desktop and consumer products market, as well as improve Toshiba’s ability to make

Intel and Micron Technology have announced that the companies have agreed to modify their NAND joint venture relationship. The terms include a supply agreement for Micron to provide Intel with NAND flash while Intel is divesting its stake in two wafer factories for $600 million from Micron – half to be paid in cash, the

Greenliant Systems has begun mass production of its industrial grade SATA interface NANDrive SSDs. I-grade SATA NANDrive devices keep customer data safe, operating at temperatures between -40 and +85 degrees Celsius. The industrial grade SATA NANDrive is currently offered in capacities of 2GB, 4GB, and 8 GB; larger capacity models are planned for future releases.

Dell has announced an update to their EqualLogic storage arrays, which adds support for copper and optical 10 GbE networking and increased storage capacity. The new EqualLogic PS6110 and PS4110 iSCSI arrays can be configured with 10GbE SFP+ or the less expensive 10GBASE-T RJ45 copper interface cards. Both systems are dual-controller, but the PS6110 offers

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