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Micron CEO Steve Appleton Dies in Airplane Accident

Micron has released a statement indicating their Chairman and CEO Steve Appleton has been killed in a small aircraft accident. Reports indicate he was in an experimental single engine Lancair aircraft that crashed at the Boise airport around 9am MST this morning.

Enterprise  ◇  Storage Adapters

Infortrend Announces 48-Bay Storage Solutions In EonStor DS Family

Infortrend has announced the addition of new high-density storage solutions in its EonStor DS family. These new solutions aid customers meet extreme capacity requirements with 48 drive bays in a 4U form factor, in addition to offering outstanding cost efficiency. The new systems are equipped with hybrid Fibre Channel (FC)/iSCSI host connectivity for cost-effective remote

Enterprise  ◇  Enterprise Storage

Transcend SSD720 SATA 6.0Gb/s SSD Announced

Transcend Information has announced the launch of its new, next generation SSD720 SATA III 6GB/s SSD. The SSD720 delivers significantly improved performance over standard rotating hard drives and its focus on productivity-enhancement is the ideal solution for demanding system applications, such as specialized multimedia computing and serious gaming.

Fusion-io ioMemory Technology to be Integrated With InFrame Designs Appliances

Fusion-io has announced that InFrame Designs, provider of custom-built media servers to accelerate playback of video at live media events, has integrated Fusion’s ioMemory technology in its appliances to reduce latency by up to 100 times compared to its previous architecture. With this drastically improved latency and an additional six-fold application performance improvement by Fusion-io

Enterprise  ◇  Software

CommVault Simpana Software Innovations Released

CommVault is set to unveil its next-generation of Singular Information Management innovations at SolveForward 2012 today, which will allow Simpana software customers to further lower their data management costs, reduce business and compliance risks, and easily extract data for improved decision making with anywhere, anytime information access. In addition, it helps increase protection and management

Enterprise  ◇  SSD

Seagate Q2 2012 – 47 Million Drives Shipped

In their Q2 2012 quarterly earnings call, Seagate indicated total drive shipments in the quarter that ended in December were roughly 119 million units, which included a pre-flood inventory of 11 million drives. Of those drives, Seagate shipped 47 million, compared to 48.9 million in the same quarter a year ago. Looking forward, Seagate still

Enterprise

SGI Modular InfiniteStorage Announced

SGI has announced the Modular InfiniteStorage, an integrated server and storage platform designed to provide Cloud and data storage customers that provides unique flexibility, adaptability, and scalability for compute and data management applications. SGI’s single modular platform has the ability to address a wide range of storage and application needs to meet virtually any business

Consumer  ◇  Desktop Storage (External)

PMC’s 12Gb/s SAS Controllers and RAID-on-Chip Controllers Now Available

PMC has announced the release of its 12Gb/s SAS protocol controllers, RAID-on-Chip (RoC) controllers, and expanders to enable advanced performance and scalability for server and networked storage. High-performance SSDs can deliver upwards to 100 times more IOPS than HDDs, creating the need for a new class of storage controller. PMC’s SAS controllers are capable of

Enterprise

EMC Isilon Scale-Out NAS with HDFS Announced

EMC announced the EMC Isilon scale-out NAS with HDFS, which when used with EMC Greenplum HD, it has the ability to deliver powerful data analytics on a flexible, highly-scalable, and efficient storage platform. The new enterprise-ready solution combines scale-out NAS data storage and Hadoop analytics capabilities with services, training and certification, and customer support from

Enterprise  ◇  Software

Nimbus E-Class Flash Memory System for Enterprise and Cloud Launched

Nimbus Data Systems, developer of Sustainable Storage, has unveiled its new E-Class Flash Memory System, the first fully-redundant multiprotocol solid-state SSD storage system. The E-Class outperforms and costs less to operate than typical disk arrays and provides the high-availability, scalability, and cost reduction that enterprises and cloud providers require.