Enterprise Storage Forum Staff

A new cloud services that enable clients to protect, store and retrieve their most critical data in minutes versus days in the event of a disaster was announced by IBM (NYSE: IBM), according to Market Watch. With an analyst estimate of tens of thousands of dollars loss of revenue for every hour during downtime, IBM […]

PR Newswire presents an announcement by Dot Hill Systems Corp. (Nasdaq: HILL) that it has joined the Citrix Ready program. Achieving full verification with Citrix XenServer, Dot Hill AssuredUVS version 2.4 is the first member of Dot Hill’s portfolio to achieve Citrix Ready verification. The AssuredUVS thin provisioning management feature benefits IT managers by provisioning […]

In a press release presented on PR Newswire, Syncsort announced that the NetApp (NASDAQ: NTAP) Syncsort Integrated Backup (NSB) solution is gaining strong adoption. Midsize enterprises are looking for new approaches for protecting business-critical data in the face of exploding data volumes and the server virtualization wave, and customers and resellers are stepping up the […]

United States Federal Bureau of Prisons has selected one Spectra T950, one Spectra T200 and 110 Spectra T50e tape libraries, all with BlueScale Encryption Standard Edition for data protection. The Federal Bureau of Prisons is able to reliably store and securely encrypt almost one petabyte of financial, policy, general IT and prisoner data, including sensitive […]

For IT shops overwhelmed by unstructured data, three technologies including scale-out network-attached storage (NAS), object-based storage and the cloud as a NAS tier, are being propelled to the forefront of enterprise storage. Tech Target examines these technologies that can meet the insatiable need for file-based primary data storage. “’We think that day is coming. It […]

PMC-Sierra, Inc. introduced its latest generation of SAS/SATA protocol controllers, which doubles the performance and port density of existing solutions. As reported by Market Watch, PMC’s Tachyon SPCv controller’s innovative multi-core architecture enables storage equipment manufacturers to take full advantage of SSD performance. It delivers more than 750,000 I/Os per second (IOPS), integrating 16 ports […]

Hitachi’s Ultrastar C10K600, Seagate’s Constellation.2, and Seagate’s Savvio 10K.5 are examined and compared in this article on Toms Hardware. All three support the established interfaces and configuration paths with SAS 6 Gb/s ports, and some models even come with Fibre Channel support. The test candidates prove to be reliable: Hitachi and Seagate estimate the MTBF […]

Other World Computing has announced a new consumer/prosumer targeted SandForce Driven SATA Revision 3.0 6Gb/s Solid State Drive, reports CDR Labs. The OWC Mercury Electra 6G SSD utilizes the highest quality components available like Tier 1/Grade A NAND, the OWC Mercury Electra delivers 556MB/s read and 523MB/s write sustained data rates for  faster performance than […]

In an interview presented on TMC Net, Dr. Ian Howells, chief marketing officer at StorSimple, talks about why the company was founded, where the cloud storage industry is headed and how StorSimple works to meet customers’ needs. Howells discusses two major trends that are intimately related to each other, the Cloud, and Storage as an […]

IDT (NASDAQ:IDTI) has announced that it has delivered the industry’s first single-chip enterprise-class flash controller with native PCIe. Co-developed with Micron Technology, Inc. (NASDAQ:MU) for exclusive use in Micron’s recently announced P320h PCIe solid-state storage system, the PCIe SSD targets high-performance enterprise applications. Business Wire reports IDT’s PCIe enterprise Flash controllers reduce system power and […]

According to Business Wire, Gluster was selected by Calxeda to be a Trailblazer, and will be first to begin proof of concept testing this fall. Calxeda has created significant industry interest in its ARM-based servers and with the Trailblazer Initiative, Calxeda is reacting to demand from customers and partners to get its chips into servers […]

Unigen Corporation has announced its latest-generation of the Orion series solid-state drives featuring 6Gbps SATA 3.0 host interface and its new patent-pending EnduraCharge Technology. Unigen, a global OEM designer and manufacturer of Enterprise Class Flash Storage SSDs & DRAM Modules, claims it’s Orion 2200 series SSDs are packed with the renowned SandForce 2281 controller, use […]