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

Stealth Startup Tegile Systems has publicly launched, announcing the availability of their Zebi hybrid storage arrays. The Zebi arrays are designed to accelerate applications up to five times while reducing storage capacity needs by up to 75%. Zebi is able to boast these gains thanks to on the fly de-dupe and compression, something Tegile feels

SanDisk has announced the SanDisk X100 SSD and SanDisk Extreme SSD for the consumer market. The X100 is available in capacities of up to 512GB and uses multi-level cell (MLC) technology, a SATA 6Gb/s high-performance interface, advanced multi-streaming features, and tiered caching technology. The Extreme SSD is targeted towards enthusiasts, delivering sequential read speeds up

EMC has announced version 9.0 of its ITOI solution, designed for effective and efficient management of virtual data centers and cloud environments. ITOI 9.0 extends the management capabilities of VMware vCenter Server, delivering complete and unified view into the entire virtual data center infrastructure to its users, including the interrelationships that exist among physical and

Toshiba has announced their MKx001GRZB enterprise SSD (eSSD) has won a Grand Prize for Excellence in Energy Efficiency and Conservation from the Energy Conservation Center in Japan. The testing took into account not just straight power consumption, but the popular performance per watt, generally measured as IOPS/watt when computing TCO in the enterprise.

OCZ announced the Z-Drive R4 CloudServ PCIe SSD, with capacities topping out at 16TB. Aimed specifically at cloud computing applications, the CloudServ is able to accelerate virtualized applications and reduce operating expenses in the data center. The Z-Drive R4 CloudServ is able to drive speeds of up to 1.4 million IOPS and when combined with

Fusion-io has announced that Host Europe, a European managed cloud service, has integrated Fusion ioMemory technology to virtualize gaming databases. This change in their data centers was aimed to reduce infrastructure and costs all the while increasing virtualized database performance capabilities, which results in competitive pricing for their customers.

A collaboration of storage industry leaders from Compellent, HP, LeftHand Networks, LSI and Sun have announced the Starboard Storage Systems, an innovator in Application-Crafted Storage systems for mixed workloads for small and medium enterprises (SMEs). Starboard Storage Systems is led by CEO Victor Walker, from Sun, CMO Karl Chen, from LeftHand Networks, VP or product

CMS Products and Wave have announced availability of the first-ever external self-encryping drive (SED) that meets the Opal standard, the CE Secure DiskVault Wave Edition. The external hard drives will ship with Wave’s EMBASSY Trusted Drive Manager software for activating the drive’s advanced security features. The drive will be available in a 500GB capacity (CE-DVLTW-500).