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).
Amazon has a gold box offer today on the OCZ Agility 3 SSD. The deal is for the 90GB capacity – $99.99 with no rebates which is $40 less than current street price. The Agility 3 uses a SandForce SF-2281 processor and asynchronous NAND to crank out advertised speeds up to 525MB/s read and 500MB/s writes. In
Riverbed Technology has announced edge virtual server infrastructure (edge-VSI), a new architectural approach that allows IT to consolidate and manage all edge servers in the data center. Unlike desktop infrastructure (VDI) edge-VSI accomplishes this consolidation while delivering 20-50% lower total cost of ownership. With Riverbed Granite global enterprises have the ability to achieve total consolidation
Supporting both Fibre Channel and iSCSI networks simultaneously, the AC&NC JetStor 724iF Hybrid RAID system decreases connectivity costs and simplifies management of storage networks. Servers requiring high-bandwidth access, including database applications, can now easily and more efficiently share storage access through inexpensive iSCSI connections and at greater distances.
IBM has announced several key improvements to its XIV Storage System Gen3 including a new SSD caching option that can increase system performance by up to three times, as well as a new iPhone app that allows people monitor their XIV storage environment wherever they go. With SSD caching, the most frequently used data is
Texas Memory Systems (TMS) has announced their partnership with NEVEX Virtual Technologies, a Toronto-based developer of application optimized caching solutions, to develop joint solutions that will supercharge the performance of VMware and Microsoft Hyper-V virtual applications implemented on TMS’ Flash-based SSD storage devices.
Hitachi has announced the Ultrastar SSD400S.B enterprise SSD, the industry’s first to use 25nm SLC NAND. The second generation SSD400S.B leverages a SAS 6Gb/s interface and supports Trusted Computing Group’s Enterprise A Security Subsystem Class encryption specification, which helps protect data and reduces the cost associated with SSD reuse and eventual retirement. Hitachi also offers
Kroll Ontrack, provider of data recovery solutions, information management, and legal technologies products and services, have announced that it has developed unique, proprietary capabilities to drastically improve the quality of data recovery from SSDs in less than a quarter of the time usually required. Engineers at Kroll Ontrack had to overcome a number of obstacles
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