LSI Corporation (NYSE:LSI) announced that it will be demonstrating the industry’s first 12Gb/s SAS expander IC this week at the LSI Accelerating Innovation Summit and Technology Showcase in Milpitas, Calif. In this demonstration, they will highlight the performance benefits of a 12Gb/s SAS solution with existing 6Gb/s drives compared to an end-to-end 6Gb/s SAS solution

Fusion-io (NYSE: FIO) announced that the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory broke its previous graph size record, set in the June Graph500 competition, with a single node server which houses 12 TB of Fusion-io memory tech. The system is called “Leviathan,” and for good reason; it’s a beast, featuring nine ioDrive Duos and one ioDrive.

The Blue Waters project, deployed by the National Center for Supercomputing Applications, anticipates that its supercomputer will be one of the most powerful in the world, capable of a staggering 1 Petaflop (one quadrillion calculations per second) of sustained performance using eight scientific applications. With it, scientists will be able to discover things that haven’t

Top500 has announced that Japan’s “K Computer” is still number one when it comes to the world’s supercomputers. The K is installed at the RIKEN Advanced Institute for Computational Science in Kobe, Japan, and runs at a stupefying 10.51 Petaflops/second on the Linpack test; that’s 10 quadrillion calculations per second. It stole the number one

NexGen Storage has just announced their new n5 virtual machine storage systems that use SSDs and hard drives, which applies granular quality of service (QoS) levels levels to provision performance across all tiers. They claim that these new storage systems will make storage setup easier for virtualized servers that run business- and mission-critical applications.

Iomega announced that they completed a new line of external drives, all geared specifically to Mac users. The models include the eGo Mac Edition Portable Hard Drive, the Helium Portable Hard Drive, both of which appeal to the traveling professional, and the Mac Companion Hard Drive, which boasts some awesome new features.

Synology America Corp. has announced the release of two new rack-mountable NAS models, the RackStation RS212 and the scalable RS812. The RS812 is the successor to the 1U RS411; the main difference is that the new model can quickly scale out to eight drives by attaching the RX410 expansion module. This will enable businesses to

Virident Systems has announced the release of their FlashMAX PCIe storage-based memory card and a $21 million round of venture capital to continue growing the business. The addition of the MLC product broadens Virident’s product portfolio, which is headlined by an SLC FlashMAX. The new MLC drive offers capacities of 1TB and 1.4TB and 4K

Corsair has launched their fourth line of SATA 6Gb/s SSDs, the Performance Pro Series. The Corsair Performance Pro SSDs are designed around a Marvell 9174 processor and deliver up to 515 MB/s read speeds and 440 MB/s writes. Corsair will offer the drives in 128GB and 256GB capacities.