LSI Corporation today introduced Syncro, a new storage architecture designed to bridge DAS single-server storage and traditional external storage in order to provide storage sharing and scaling capabilities for multi-server environments. The announcement also marks manufacturer availability of the first Syncro device, the MX-B rack boot appliance.

The InfiniBand Trade Association (IBTA) today announced Release 1.3 of its InfiniBand Architecture Specification Volume 2, introducing data transfer speeds of 56Gb/s and 168Gb/s as well as enhancements to device, switch, and cable interoperability. InfiniBand is a low-latency, high-bandwidth interconnect solution with low processing overhead that facilitates carrying clustering, communications, storage, management traffic over a

WD has announced a new version of its My Book Studio external hard drive featuring USB 3.0 capability, which provides data transfer speeds up to three times faster than USB 2.0. Additionally, WD has added 4 TB capacity in a single-drive configuration making it an ideal solution for backing up large amounts of digital content.

Synology has announced the launch of the RS10613xs+ following last week’s release of the RS3413xs+. Built specifically for SMEs, the new 10-bay 2U RackStation is Synology’s most advanced hardware to date, providing fast and scalable storage at a reasonable price; the ideal storage solution between NAS and SAN. The RS10613xs+ can quickly scale to up

EMC Corporation today announced that the Isilon OneFS 7.0 scale-out NAS operating system will be generally available this week. According to EMC, OneFS 7.0 brings a 25% increase in single file system throughput, caching capabilities that reduce latency by 50% for I/O-intensive applications, and tighter integration with VMware.

SolidFire today announced general availability of its SF3010 and SF6010 all-SSD storage systems, designed to allow cloud providers bring performance- and uptime-sensitive applications like Oracle, SAP, Hadoop and NoSQL into the cloud. SolidFire storage systems combine up to one hundred SF3010 or SF6010 nodes over 10GB Ethernet, for more than 2PB total capacity and 5

Scalable Informatics has announced a new 240TB, 4U JackRabbit solution and updated performance data for siFlash that indicates sustained streaming data rates of more than 10GB/s and more than 300k random IOPs. siCluster systems assembled from JackRabbit and siFlash products are now capable of providing per rack throughput from 60GB/s to over 100GB/s and up

SGI has announced support for the Intel Xeon Phi coprocessor and NVIDIA Tesla K20 and K20X GPU Accelerators throughout its server product line. The Xeon Phi offers over one Teraflop double-precision performance per processor to handle parallel workloads in an x86 programming model, while the Tesla accelerators feature the GK110 GPU with 2496 cores, 1.17

Perhaps in-office visit is a bit confusing, near-office visit may be more accurate. Either way, Cintas has recently launched a hard drive destruction program, an offering within their document management services arm, which until recently was mostly focused on paper document destruction and document imaging and storage. The new hard drive destruction program is an