At EMC World 2012, EMC announced new Data Domain and Avamar systems and software for high-performance, scalable backup appliances that tightly integrate with each other, with backup software, and into heterogeneous enterprise application ecosystems. The arrival of data deduplication technology enabled today’s high-performance purpose-built backup appliances to address legacy issues of backup window times and

EMC has revealed plans for the next generation of EMC Isilon OneFS scale-out NAS operating system, code-named "Mavericks," which will enable enterprises to manage rapidly growing unstructured data more effectively. This upcoming version of OneFS will incorporate new features for data protection, security, system performance and interoperability. Mavericks emphasizes the Isilon strategy of enterprise-wide interoperability

EMC has announced the activation of the Greenplum Analytics Workbench, a 1,000-node cluster with 24 petabytes of physical storage that will act as a lab environment for accelerating development of Apache Hadoop. EMC Greenplum will use the Analytics Workbench to test the limits of scale-out infrastructure technology, refine models for applying Big Data analytics, and

EMC has announced new solutions for Life Sciences and Engineering, Plants and Facilities Management companies via EMC OnDemand and the next version of EMC Documentum D2 for configuring Documentum interfaces. The company also announced reaching the milestone of 45 approved partner solutions during the first full year of its EMC Certified Solution Program. The certifications

Seagate Technology and LaCie have announced an exclusive agreement for Seagate to acquire a controlling interest in LaCie, pending regulatory approval. The offer values LaCie at approximately $186 million, including acquired net cash of approximately $65 million as of March 31, 2012. This represents a premium of 29% to LaCie’s average closing stock price over

Nexenta has announced the upcoming release of NexentaVSA for View, expanding Nexenta’s ZFS-based OpenStorage offerings into the virtualized desktop market. NexentaVSA for View uses the ZFS file system with commodity hardware to reduce management and storage costs associated with VDI. This announcement concludes a three-month NexentaVSA beta program which saw testers gain up to 10X

STEC has announced Nexenta’s certification of an all-STEC SSD configuration for the NexentaStor ZFS-based storage platform. NexentaStor will use ZeusRAM SSD to store its write log and ZeusIOPS SSD for the read cache, meaning up to 5X better performance for database indexing and email exchanges, 8X reduction in cost per user, and 4X reduction in

Over the last week StorageReview has been profiling the various presentations, technology and storage trends that resulted from this year’s SCSI Trade Association (STA) Technology Showcase. The STA 2012 event highlighted the strengths of current and next-generation SCSI technology in everything from SAS cabling to new SCSI Express flash-based PCIe devices. Sponsors of the event

The latest manufacturer approaches to SAS-based data integrity were on display at the SCSI Trade Association Technology Showcase. STA demonstrations from sponsors including Western Digital, HGST, HP, LeCroy, LSI, PMC-Sierra, SanDisk and Seagate incorporated multi-level protocol protection, including PHY, link, and transport levels. From simple parity and CRC up to RAID and T10 Protection Information