HPC Wire: Storage

Quantum Materials Corporation, Inc. proudly announces the USPTO patent grant of a fundamental disruptive technology for synthesis of Group II-VI inorganic tetrapod quantum dots.

Addison and Michael review some of the more newsworthy announcements that took place last week at SC12.

PLX Technology, Inc. announced Larry Chisvin, PLX vice president of strategic initiatives, will present at the Server Design Summit on the role of a PCI Express-based ExpressFabric in uniting all hardware within the racks of data centers.

OCZ Technology Group, Inc. announced the availability of its new SATA III-based Vector SSD Series featuring the company’s next-generation Indilinx Barefoot 3 controller.

WHIPTAIL announced a major expansion to its flagship INVICTA Modular Storage Array, with the first of its kind Hyperscale scale up/scale out INFINITY architecture.

PLDA announced successful test chips for the industry’s first combined PCIe Gen 3 Controller IP and PHY IP solution on TSMC 28nm HPM (High Performance Mobile) process.

Nexsan announced that Case Western Reserve University selected the NST5000 unified, hybrid storage system to meet its fast growing, high volume scientific computing storage needs.

The US Patent and Trademark Office has ordered reexamination and rejected all of the claims of US Patent No. 8,250,295 which have been asserted in a patent infringement lawsuit filed by SMART Modular against Netlist.

BiTMICRO announced today that it has completed the first production units of its maxIO PCIe SSD, its new enterprise-class solid state drive.

Rackwise, Inc. announced that The Retirement Systems of Alabama has selected Rackwise DCiM X to manage the newly opened, hosted colocation RSA Dexter Avenue Datacenter.

WHIPTAIL announced a $31 million investment, including strategic investments from flash-memory leader SanDisk as well as an unnamed Silicon Valley industry titan.

Imation has announced its acquisition of Nexsan Corporation, a provider of disk-based storage systems.

New members bring expertise in areas of object storage and high performance computing storage solutions for active archives.

OCZ Technology Group, Inc. announced that it will demonstrate a pre-production version of its new flagship Vector SSD Series for PCI Express (PCIe) interfaces at the upcoming Consumer Electronics Show (CES) 2013.

Panasas announced that the UK's University of Nottingham has upgraded its high performance computing (HPC) center with Panasas ActiveStor 12 storage in a 240 terabyte deployment.

Silicon Mechanics has been awarded the 2012 Intel Cluster Ready Explorer Award

VFX company Image Engine has selected Avere to reduce costs of its new storage architecture system.

DataDirect Networks (DDN) announced its selection by the Los Angeles Business Journal as one of 2012’s 100 fastest growing privately held companies.

Violin Memory, provider of a new class of high-performance flash-based storage systems, today announced that it has completed the acquisition of GridIron Systems, a pioneer in data center application acceleration.

Plextor announces the U.S. release of the M5 Pro Xtreme Solid State Drive, featuring several upgrades from the original M5 Pro model, including the recently announced Xtreme firmware update.

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