IDC is out with a new report today indicating that despite a weak economic year, SSD drive adoption continued to grow. Solid state drives accounted for over 11 million units sold in 2009, a 14% year over year growth. 

CommVault, a data management software company, today released the results of a survey that reveal corporate demand for cloud storage is growing despite concerns over security and reliability. Out of 535 companies surveyed, 52% are considering the use of cloud storage services now or in the future.

Lockheed Martin and IronKey today announced IronClad, secure computing in the form of a USB flash drive. The IronClad USB key shrinks an entire notebook’s hard drive, including the operating system, programs, and files, onto a secure flash drive. This allows users to have access to their own desktop and files on nearly any computer.

Silicon Power has announced their 400X CF card with capacities up to 128GB and write speeds of up to 90MB/s. Silicon Power’s 400X cards support PIO Mode-6 and Multi-Word DMA 4 transfer mode in quad-channel configuration. The cards also feature Error Correction Code for data accuracy and Wear Leveling technology to prolong the card’s lifespan.  

Active Media Products has introduced the 600X Compact Flash card family designed for DSLR-toting photographers. The 600X CF cards can write up to 90MB/s, relieving the bottleneck slower memory cards can cause while shooting photos in rapid succession. 

Toshiba has announced the world’s first 64GB SDXC flash memory card, also claiming the world’s fastest data transfer rate. Toshiba is also introducing 16/32GB SDHC cards with the same data transfer rate. 

Highpoint Technology today announced the industry’s first SATA 6 Gbps SATA RAID host adapter, the RocketRAID 620 series. The RocketRAID 620 has a PCI-e 2.0 interface and supports RAID 0/1/5/10 and JBOD. 

Kingston has announced that owners of secure USB drives that were affected by a security flaw are eligible for a replacement drive with an updated security suite. The affected drives include the DataTraveler BlackBox (DTBB), DataTraveler Secure – Privacy Edition (DTSP) and DataTraveler Elite – Privacy Edition (DTEP). 

VIA today introduced its M’SERV S2100 home mini server. It features a VIA Nano 64-bit processor, dual gigabit LAN ports, two onboard RAM slots, a Compact Flash slot, and a low-noise 8cm fan.