A day after Seagate sealed the deal with Samsung, we’ve learned Western Digital has hit a snag with their acquisition of Hitachi. On November 23rd Western Digital announced the European Commission had approved the deal, but with conditions. Western Digital had anticipated certain actions would be required to close the transaction but still felt the deal would

Synology announced today that their XS Series NAS Servers are now VMware Ready with complete support for vSphere 5.0. This new certification level offers increased flexibility, greater performance, and enhanced storage and management efficiency inside the VMware platform. One of the main features of this new version is the Storage Distribute Resource Scheduler which improves

Toshiba announced today that one of its entire lines of enterprise hard disks and solid state drives have been qualified by SuperMicro. Having the SuperMicro name on these Toshiba drives ensures comparability between the devices and keeps the logos matching.

CommVault, a developer of Singular Information Management solutions for high-performance data protection, has launched a new Enterprise Consulting Services (ECS) practice to hasten the adoption of modern data management strategies. It will allow larger enterprises to migrate from legacy backup policies to a modern data management approach in the most efficient way possible and to

EMC has sent out a letter to its Velocity channel partners stating their disk drive prices will rise 5 to 15% beginning in January, 2012. These increases are due to the floods that are ravaging Thailand, which caused hard drive companies to raise their prices a few months ago. Until now, the large storage array and

While not yet confirmed by Apple, it appears their widely rumored acquisition of Anobit has been completed. Anobit is based in Israel and provides several storage components like mobile flash controllers, along with their own line of enterprise SSDs. Confirmation of the transaction comes via Twitter post from Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, "Welcome to Israel,

Seagate Technology (NASDAQ:STX) has announced the acquisition of the Samsung hard drive business is complete. Under the deal Seagate purchased facilities, assets and brought over employees that will help Seagate continue to innovate and add production scale to their existing hard drive operations with an emphasis on the development of small form factor solutions.

Super Talent Technology, a manufacturer of NAND flash-storage solutions, have announced their newest portable SSD, the Storage POD Mini. With USB 3.0 and SSD technologies, it is now possible to create a USB storage solution that is smaller, lighter, and more durable than traditional HDDs and the Storage POD Mini is no exception. The blue

In the past few days the hard drive market has seen a huge shift in warranty periods from Western Digital and Seagate. In some cases warranty lengths have been reduced from five years to just 12 months, with the biggest drop in budget or low-power drives. With many enthusiasts undoubtedly worried about this drastic restructuring