At the Barclay’s Capital Global Technology Conference today OCZ Technology has announced plans to showcase both the enterprise Z-Drive R5 and consumer-based TLC SSDs at the upcoming Consumer Electronics Show in January. The Z-Drive R5 follows hot on the heels of the Z-Drive R4 and promises to more than double IOPS performance, going from 1.5
Big data acceleration company, GridIron Systems, have announced that its new TurboCharger non-disruptive appliance is being readily implemented by the financial services industry to improve service-levels and solve Oracle and SQL-server performance challenges. Companies requiring access to data 24 hours a day, seven days a week all year around have saved anywhere between one and
Business recovery service provider IT-Lifeline has announced a new service, BLACKCLOUD Edge, which uses CommVault Simpana 9 software to synch up with Amazon Web Services, making for an affordable disaster recovery solution. According to CommVault, the new service could offer up to a 50% price reduction compared to current DR services.
Texas Memory Systems (TMS) has just launched its first high-availability flash SAN, the RamSan-720. The device features redundant components and failover capabilities for organizations that want the ability to run multiple applications on one system without a single point of failure with either 6 or 12 TB of solid-state capacity. The RamSan-720 is the update
DataCore Software has introduced the SANsymphony-V Monitoring Pack for Microsoft System Center Operations Manager, enabling customers to easily monitor and manage storage assets virtualized by SANsymphony-V and other facets of their data center from System Center. Through a common storage virtualization layer, the new storage hypervisor enhances the value of diverse storage resources by unifying
IM Flash Technologies (IMFT), the name of the Intel Corporation and Micron Technology joint-development venture, have announced the world’s first 20 nanometer, 128Gb, MLC NAND. In addition to this announcement, both companies will begin mass production of their 64Gb 20nm NAND. Their new 20nm monolithic 128Gb device is the first to enable a terabit (Tb)
OCZ Technology (Nasdaq:OCZ) has announced a unique win for their Deneva 2 SSD Series – the drives has been qualified by Olive for use in their audiophile-grade 04HD and 06HD music servers. The SSDs provide an alternative for Olive customers who prefer the reduced noise, heat and power consumption when compared to the current 2TB
Synology is increasing transfer speeds for their ARM-based NAS systems with what they’re calling ARM Performance Acceleration Technology. The update is a free hot fix update that is part of the latest DSM release, 3.2-1955. Synology has seen ARM-based systems achieve up to an 18.8% gain in performance, while maintaining system reliability and stability.
Western Digital today announced that it is beginning to recover from the devastating floods in Thailand that left many of its factories under water. One building in the company’s Bang Pa-in facility was brought back on line and started producing hard drives again on November 30th. The Bang Pa-in building had been under six feet
Transcend Information, Inc, has announced its newest StoreJet Cloud Wireless Portable Drive, which features compact dimensions, a long-lasting battery, and up to 64GB in storage capacity– extending the storage space available on Apple iOS and other Wi-Fi enabled devices considerably. It also provides dedicated, wireless access to photos, documents, eBooks, music, and movies.
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