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SALT LAKE CITY “ Press Release – Dec. 8, 2011 “ Fusion-io (NYSE: FIO), pioneer of shared data decentralization, today announced that it has entered into a reseller agreement with Digital China, a leading provider of integrated IT services in China. Digital China will offer the full range of Fusion-io software and hardware technologies, working closely with Fusion-io to help …

IBM today announced the availability of VMWare View 5 and vSphere Storage Appliance V1.0. These new versions will be made public on December 16, 2011. VMware View 5.0 delivers desktops as a managed service and transforms desktop management into a simplified and automated process to help reduce the TCO by up to 50%. It also provides users with a performance …

ADATA Technology is launching a new USB 3.0 Flash drive, the S107. The new USB device has speeds of up to 100MB/s, three times faster than the USB 2.0 interface. Capacities of 8GB, 16GB, and 32GB will be available initially. Designed for rugged use, thee drives are encased in rubber, and are waterproof as well. They come with a unique …

The paint hasn’t dried since our release a few days ago which detailed our belief that the Intel 520 Series SSD was ‘SandForce Driven’, yet today, we are going to suggest another angle where it is entirely possible that the Intel 520 is not SandForce based at all.  The incredible thing, in our minds anyway, is the fact that we …

Fusion-io is developing a 2.5 inch form factor SSD according to an article released by Channel Register today. The 2 week old prototype was apparently on display at the HP Discover event in Vienna. There are several key takeaways to this news, one being that Fusion-io has long berated SSDs for poor performance. This would lead many to question why …

Texas Memory Systems has announced their latest SAN offering, the RamSan-720, a flash storage system that is primarily for server systems. A new feature to the RamSan line is its high-availability features, that protect the system from failure. The key here is to eliminate any one source of failure. There are several approaches to this with the new device, utilizing …

The rage this year in storage technology has been hard drive caching which is equaled only by the introduction and storm of Ultrabooks we are seeing brought to market.  Samsung has tackled both with their new PM830 mSATA release containing sizes from 32GB all the way to an incredible 256GB which thus far, is unheard of in a mSATA SSD. …

Super Talent has just announced their new TeraNova SSD which they claim as their fastest SATA 3 SSD to date. The TeraNova contains the SandForce SF-2281 processor and also highlights ‘optimized’ SandForce firmware. Available in capacities of 64, 120, 240 and 480GB, the TeraNova will have a two year warranty and the data sheet shows speeds of 540MB/s read and …

Today we thought we would start something a little new with our Daily News and highlight a review from our ‘web family’ that we think may be of interest. With the Holiday Season upon us and electronics being a big part of the gift giving lets start with an emphasis on Notebooks themselves? Why without Notebooks a lot of the …

Intel and Micron today announced their mass production of a new size of NAND, the worlds first 20 nanometer 128 gigabit MLC device. The new 20nm device can fit an astounding 1Tb of storage into a chip the size of a human fingertip, as evidenced by the picture to your left. This amazing achievement is capable by using only 8 …