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Marvell has announced availability of the Marvell DragonFlyTM NVDRIVE – the world’s first NVRAM-powered PCIe SSD cache solution.  This turnkey enterprise-class caching solution with built-in SSD modules extends the company’s award-winning DragonFly NVCACHE and NVRAM adapter product offerings that were released last August.  The DragonFly NVDRIVE is targeted to large-scale Internet and cloud computing datacenters.  It will dramatically scale both …

Velobit, a provider of high-performance solid state drive caching software, is marking their second anniversary with two new releases that reflect an amazing two years of growth. One of the few prior drawbacks to utilization of Velobit software was lack of support for Windows-based operating systems. WINDOWS AND HYPER-V OS SUPPORT ADDED VeloBit is pleased to announce that Windows and …

This year at FMS 2012, we were met one day by LSI representatives who politely handed us a non-nondescript cardboard box and simply said, “Enjoy”. We had been waiting for this box for some time and new it to be the LSI Nytro MegaRAID NMR 8120-4i Application Acceleration Card, part of the trinity of new LSI application accelerating products, all …

QLogic, known for their enterprise storage infrastructure solutions, has announced the release of their Mt. Rainier SSD caching technology. Mt. Rainier is a targeted solution meant to accelerate SAN performance while at the same time simplifying deployment of SSD caching in servers. Interestingly, the caching solution will not only be transparent to server side applications, but to the OS as …

SanDisk, well known throughout the industry for their wide variety of storage products, has announced the release of their ReadyCache SSD caching solution. ReadyCache will include a 32GB SSD as well as Condusive Technologies’ ExpressCache, which is comparable to software that is being offered by the likes of NVELO. Based on what we already know about SSD caching, SanDisk’s new …

VeloBit, a provider of high-performance SSD caching software, is announcing a trial sampling program via a bundle that will feature PCIe and SATA SSDs from Micron Technology, Inc.  Potential customers will be able to receive a 60-day free trial to evaluate the use of VeloBit’s HyperCache software bundled with certain PCIe and SATA SSDs from Micron.  Customer looking to integrate …

If I were to have a personal favorite SSD form factor it would just have to be the mSATA SSD.  At under 10gm and 1/3 the size of a business card, the performance this device is capable of is reminiscent of that of a worker ant that can lift 20 times its weight. Needless to say,  learning of ADATAs new …

Word of an OEM disk caching solution has been the talk for some time and we had to wonder who would be the first and when, until today that is. The opportunity to purchase a laptop with both the power of an SSD and the storage capacity of a hard drive has been some time in the making and, unexpectedly, …

Starboard Storage Systems, a company that was apparently just launched today, has announced the release of their AC72 mixed storage system. Facilitating what Starboard is calling “Application Crafted Storage”, the new unit should allow administrators to employ a “set it and forget it” attitude when it comes to managing storage. This will allow the focus to be exclusively on maintaining …

EMC, well known for their various enterprise storage products, has announced the release of their VFCache SSD caching solution for servers. According to EMC, VFCache utilizes PCIe SSDs in order to accelerate I/O performance by at least 3 times while reducing latency by 60%. EMC is touting the new product as a perfect complement to their VMAX, VMAXe, VNX and …