Western Digital (NYSE: WDC) has disclosed that on November 18, 2011, an arbitration award of $525 million was rendered against the company, which they intend to challenge vigorously. The confidential arbitration took place in Minnesota, and while details are very thin, WD did reveal that the award involves claims brought by Seagate against WD and
Quantum Corp. announced three new products aimed at enterprise data management. Included in the new releases are the DXi8500, a deduplication device, the Scalar i6000, a dual robotic tape library, and version 4.1 of Quantum Vision management software. The DXi8500 is touted as an extremely affordable solution. Price is set around $300,000 and includes data
Exciting news for anyone currently using their new SSD in RAID0! Intel will finally be bringing TRIM support. Currently the only way for TRIM to function on an SSD is to operate in AHCI mode. This means that drives in high-performance arrays such as RAID0 lose the NAND cleaning benefits which could decrease speeds as
Voxel, a hosting company based in New York, announced they selected OCZ as an SSD vendor for drives used in their voxSERVER dedicated server products. As an optional upgrade these SSDs aren’t seen in every server, but instead used in configurations where the customer needs very fast I/O speeds in setups such as a database
Western Digital has added two more content providers to their line of media streamers; Vimeo and PlayJam. The update is available via firmware update on the WD TV Live and WD TV Live Hub products and takes just a few minutes to update.
SOS Online Backup has announced the first low cost, all in one, enterprise cloud-based data protection service. The new service, ServerSave, offers cloud backup for Bare Metal, Exchange, SharePoint, and SQL servers, plus granulated recovery.
Kingston Digital has launched the DataTraveler HyperX 3.0 USB drive, their fastest USB drive to date. Not only will it store a bunch of data with a top capacity of 256GB, but it also cranks out read speeds of 225 MB/s and writes of 135 MB/s, certainly not something we’re used to seeing out of
Blade-based cloud computing and storage developer Cirrascale demonstrated some of their supremely capable products with Netlist (Nasdaq: NLST) at SC11. Cirrascale showed their 288GB HyperCloud DRAM memory, which, installed in an industry standard server, ran at 1,333 mega transfers per second (MT/s). This display of speed is impressive, beating out normally available RDIMM memory by
Plextor announced a new line of solid state drives, the M3S. The M3S weighs in at 2.5” with a bracket to adapt to 3.5”, comes with a 5 year warranty, and comes in a variety of capacities: 128GB, 256GB, and 512GB. The new line also boasts sequential read/write speeds of up to 525MB/s read and
Cray Inc. has announced the Cray Sonexion 1300 system–an integrated file system, software and storage product giving customers a complete and scalable Lustre file system solution that is easy to install and maintain. The Cray Sonexion is designed specifically for a wide range of HPC workloads, features data rates of more than a terabyte-per-second, and
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