EMC Eyes Servers with VFCache Add-on February 6, 2012 -- Not content to let its storage arrays hog all the flashed-based caching glory, EMC officially announced the availability of its VFCache server add-on today.
Nimbus Delivers Flash Storage for Mission-Critical Infrastructure January 31, 2012 -- Nimbus Data Systems' E-Class Flash Memory System is a fully redundant multi-protocol solid-state storage system that packs 440 TB into a single rack and is intended for mission-critical enterprise and cloud infrastructure.
IBM Engineers Atomic-Scale Memory January 13, 2012 -- Big Blue scientists announced that they were able to store a bit of information in as few as 12 magnetic atoms, a breakthrough that could lead to storage technology at least 100 times denser than currently available.
Fusion-io Blasts Through 1 Billion IOPS Barrier January 6, 2012 -- In a demonstration of its Auto Commit Memory extension, Fusion-io achieved 1 billion input and output operations per second (IOPS) on eight HP servers using eight ioDrive 2 Duos.
Seagate Revises 2Q Guidance Upward but HDDs Still in Short Supply January 5, 2012 -- Reporting preliminary fiscal second quarter 2012 financial results, Seagate Technology said revenues for the quarter were better than expected, but it believes hard disk drives will continue to be in short supply through 2012.
TMS Unleashes High-Availability Flash Array December 6, 2011 -- The flash array vendor delivers high-availability and low latency in a 1U enclosure that draws between 300 and 400 watts of power.
Flooding in Thailand Could Also Depress Worldwide HDD Shipments November 11, 2011 -- The severe flooding in Thailand has taken hundreds of lives. The country is also a hard disk drive manufacturing center, and the disaster could have a severe effect on worldwide PC shipments through the first half of 2012
SnapServer Claims New Storage Appliance Needs No Provisioning October 11, 2011 -- Overland Storage unveils SnapServer DX, a new unified NAS and iSCSI SAN device that leverages RAID technology to eliminate the need to provision storage capacity.
Intel Aims Longer-lasting SSDs at Data Centers September 16, 2011 -- The chip giant targets its own previous generation of solid-state drives for replacement by the new industrial strength SSDs designed for data center use.