Enterprise Storage Forum Staff

Based on demonstrated prototypes seen at Computex in Taiwan, OCZ is set to introduce two new products to the enterprise SSD market. As The Register notes, the Z-Drive R4 and the Revo Hybrid are aimed at enterprises – a step up for the company who started with consumer flash. Going toe to toe with Fusion-io […]

Author Ron Sommer, in his article presented on Seeking Alpha, looks at the history of Dell (NASDAQ: DELL). Dell storage products are just one of Dell’s enterprise solutions products which also includes servers and networking products. Sommer discusses the growth of the company, it’s acquisitions, and stock values.   “Things are certainly different now for […]

Market Watch reports that in the June 2011 TOP500 list, InfiniBand-connected systems grew at a CAGR of 20 percent from 2008-2011, connecting and delivering leading performance and efficiency to 206 supercomputers. Mellanox (NASDAQ: MLNX), a supplier of end-to-end connectivity solutions for data center servers and storage systems, accelerated all five of the InfiniBand-based Petascale systems […]

In a new release presented on PR Newswire, Nirvanix announced the appointment of Paul Froutan as Chief Technology Officer (CTO), effective immediately. This addition of a cloud technology innovator to its growing executive management team will enhance Nirvanix’s technology leadership and increase market share gains against both cloud service providers and storage hardware vendors. Froutan, […]

Technology futurist and strategic advisor, Ross Dawson, says that understanding what is driving changes in IT infrastructure today is essential to understanding the future of information infrastructure tomorrow. As noted in this Computer World article, Dawson believes that this whole field of big data is an issue because while storage and data are both growing […]

Winchester Systems Inc., has announced that its FlashDisk VX Series RAID disk arrays now offer 3 TB disk drives. The FlashDisk VX-3400 RAID disk array stores 336 TB in a single RAID set; and it fits 772 TB into a single 84U data center rack. “FlashDisk has always provided the ‘best overall value’ by delivering […]

SanDisk Corporation has announced the expansion of its Lightning Enterprise Flash Drive (EFD) family with six new 2.5-inch 6Gb SAS models. Part of the new Enterprise Storage Solutions (ESS) division that SanDisk created after acquiring Pliant Technology, these new drives include three SLC flash drives with capacities of 100GB, 200GB and 400GB; and three MLC […]

The launch of its worldwide Early Access Program was announced by SolidFire, reports Businesswire. The provider of all-solid-state (SSD) primary storage systems for cloud service providers claims it’s exclusive use of SSDs in combination with a high-efficiency scale-out storage architecture enables cloud service providers to significantly increase system performance while simultaneously increasing capacity utilization to […]

In an effort to address the impact on storage infrastructure when organizations move to a more virtualized environment, Sanbolic’s Melio 3 makes the storage of applications and data as flexible as virtual clients, virtual servers and private cloud workloads. This is achieved, according to ZD Net, through a storage framework that includes storage cluster management, […]

OCZ Technology Group, Inc has launched the Deneva 2 SSD line for enterprise clients. Using SATA 6Gb/s interface, Deneva 2 SSDs are designed for a wide range of enterprise applications including servers, cloud computing, and data centers. According to MarketWatch, the Deneva 2 series delivers maximum performance while meeting the needs of enterprise storage environments. […]

According to a Market Watch news release, G-Technology by Hitachi has introduced its G-CONNECT wireless storage solution. The solution provides on-the-go wireless access to content not currently loaded on an iOS device, including movies, music, books, photos and documents. This is the first in a family of products providing instant, wireless storage and 802.11n WiFi […]

On the company website, Sanbolic announced the general availability of its newest software release, Melio v3.5. Designed to deliver improved availability and scalability to critical enterprise workloads, Melio v3.5 addresses the storage management and performance challenges encountered in increasingly dynamic and virtualized application environments, the company claims.   “’Using Sanbolic’s Melio has helped us to […]