Nexsan has announced the department of computer science at Brigham Young University (the US’s largest religious university and the third largest private university in the country) has integrated Nexsan’s Flexible Storage Platform to support its multi-purpose storage infrastructure. The Flexible Storage Platform was chosen to support the department’s virtualized operating environment with high capacity storage

Micron has released a statement indicating their Chairman and CEO Steve Appleton has been killed in a small aircraft accident. Reports indicate he was in an experimental single engine Lancair aircraft that crashed at the Boise airport around 9am MST this morning.

Infortrend has announced the addition of new high-density storage solutions in its EonStor DS family. These new solutions aid customers meet extreme capacity requirements with 48 drive bays in a 4U form factor, in addition to offering outstanding cost efficiency. The new systems are equipped with hybrid Fibre Channel (FC)/iSCSI host connectivity for cost-effective remote

Transcend Information has announced the launch of its new, next generation SSD720 SATA III 6GB/s SSD. The SSD720 delivers significantly improved performance over standard rotating hard drives and its focus on productivity-enhancement is the ideal solution for demanding system applications, such as specialized multimedia computing and serious gaming.

Fusion-io has announced that InFrame Designs, provider of custom-built media servers to accelerate playback of video at live media events, has integrated Fusion’s ioMemory technology in its appliances to reduce latency by up to 100 times compared to its previous architecture. With this drastically improved latency and an additional six-fold application performance improvement by Fusion-io

CommVault is set to unveil its next-generation of Singular Information Management innovations at SolveForward 2012 today, which will allow Simpana software customers to further lower their data management costs, reduce business and compliance risks, and easily extract data for improved decision making with anywhere, anytime information access. In addition, it helps increase protection and management

In their Q2 2012 quarterly earnings call, Seagate indicated total 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, Seagate shipped 47 million, compared to 48.9 million in the same quarter a year ago. Looking forward, Seagate still

SGI has announced the Modular InfiniteStorage, an integrated server and storage platform designed to provide Cloud and data storage customers that provides unique flexibility, adaptability, and scalability for compute and data management applications. SGI’s single modular platform has the ability to address a wide range of storage and application needs to meet virtually any business

PMC has announced the release of its 12Gb/s SAS protocol controllers, RAID-on-Chip (RoC) controllers, and expanders to enable advanced performance and scalability for server and networked storage. High-performance SSDs can deliver upwards to 100 times more IOPS than HDDs, creating the need for a new class of storage controller. PMC’s SAS controllers are capable of