Western Digital Corporation has once again run its global survey of CIOs and IT decision makers, this being its second annual. What was found this year is that cost is no longer the major consideration when it comes to data storage purchases. As organizations are mining their data more and more to gain insight, reliability

Today Toshiba America Electronics Components Inc. released their latest very read-intensive enterprise SAS SSD, the PX04SL series. The PX04SL expands on Toshiba’s third generation SAS SSDs. The new SSD series is aimed at high read-intensive application workloads such as data warehousing, web servers, media streaming, and video on demand.

Samsung Electronics has announced they have begun mass producing the industry’s first 4GB DRAM package based on the second-generation High Bandwidth Memory (HBM2) interface.  Designed for HPC, advanced graphics, network systems, and enterprise servers, Samsung indicates that it will boast more than seven times the speed of current DRAM performance limitations, resulting in faster responsiveness

Violin Memory makes a high performing all-flash array, in fact some of the best performance in the industry as we’ve seen with the Windows Array. However since going public in 2013, Violin’s stock has struggled. Starting off at $9 per share the stock has been floating under a dollar the last couple of months just popping

Zerto announced that it has raised an additional $50 million in series E funding led by IVP. Zerto states that it plans on using the extra capital to support continued product development to increase the flexibility of software defined, hybrid cloud infrastructures for easier adoption and use by business leaders in a wide range of

Caringo has announced the immediate availability of its Swarm object storage software on Microsoft Azure. Swarm is designed to aid in the rapid deployment of highly reliable, scalable and compliant storage to developers and enterprises in any of the global network of managed data centers that Azure currently offers. In addition, applications using Amazon S3

Seagate Technology has unveiled their first 10TB enterprise HDD, combining high capacity with low power consumption and low weight. Designed to meet the constantly growing storage requirements for both private and public cloud-based data centers, the Seagate Enterprise 3.5 Capacity HDD offers maximum storage capacity for easy system integration by using the standard 3.5-inch CMR

Dubbed the largest NAS optimized drive on today’s market, Seagate has announced their 8TB NAS HDD, allowing businesses to use both fewer drives and fewer costly enclosures. As such, the new 8TB drives are specifically built for tower enclosures with one to eight bays for upwards of 64TB in a single eight-bay desktop form factor.

Diablo Technologies has announced that it has secured an additional $19 million in capital for its Series C Financing round, which is led by new investor ICV along with participation from Battery Ventures, BDC Capital, Celtic House, and Hasso Plattner Ventures. Diablo adds that the funding will be used to help expedite customer deployments with