Synology has announced the beta release of DiskStation Manager (DSM) 5.2, the latest version of their powerful NAS operating system. Specifically designed to make management of private clouds more effective, secure, and intuitive, this new version adds new functionalities and updates under-the-hood.

Today SanDisk Corporation announced contributions to the open source Ceph object, block, and file storage platform. This news follows on the heels of SanDisk’s announcement of its first storage system, the all-flash InfiniFlash system for Big Data. InfiniFlash is powered by Ceph open source software (OSS). SanDisk is solidifying its commitment to being an open source contributor

Today Toshiba Storage introduced a new 12Gb SAS interface enterprise HDD line, the AL13SX series. The AL13SX series is a 2.5” form factor, 12Gb SAS interface 512b native, 15,000 RPM, advanced format HDD. The AL13SX series comes in 300GB, 450GB, and 600GB capacities.

Today Google introduced a new low cost storage service that allows business to store near limitless amounts of data, Google Nearline Cloud Storage. Nearline acts similar to cold storage, storing all data whether it appears business critical or not, but has the speed and accessibility of the Cloud.

PROMISE Technology today announced the forthcoming launch of its VSky A-Series family of storage solutions which are designed to support petabyte-scale volumes for applications such as backup and archiving, media editing, video surveillance, virtual environments, and content delivery. The A-Series uses a single flat namespace as part of an architecture that can be deployed with

Facebook has announced the first open source modular chassis for high-powered microservers, code-named Yosemite, while proposing the design as a contribution to the Open Compute Project for all members of the community to build on and deploy. Yosemite is designed as a modular chassis containing high-powered system-on-a-chip (SoC) processor cards, providing Facebook’s infrastructure with capacity

We reviewed the VNXe3200 back in October of last year and we liked the little platform. But not everyone felt the same. The performance of the unit wasn’t the question so much as the licensing. Now EMC has introduced a new software bundle that is 88% cheaper.

X-IO Technologies has launched its own series all-flash arrays (AFA), the ISE 800 Series. This marks an expansion of X-IO’s Intelligent Storage Element (ISE) storage portfolio, which also includes the X-IO ISE 700 and ISE 200 Series. The new ISE 800 Series has also achieved the  number one position for price-performance in the Storage Performance Council’s SPC-1

LaCie has announced the addition of USB–C technology to its Porsche Design Mobile Drive. With USB-C technology, both ends of the cable are identical and the connector is reversible, which helps make the LaCie Mobile Drive easier to connect, as there is no need to think about which end goes to which device or worrying