Fusion-io ioDrive 2 SSD card pumps data at insane speeds

Again Fusion-IO has a super fast PCI-e based SSD card to show us. Called the Fusion-IO ioDrive 2, it’s a super high-speed SSD card that plugs into an available PCI-e slot of your server. This SSD is best used for applications that need fast speeds and low latency.

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OCZ’s new PCIe SSD – Z-Drive R4 offers 2,800MB/s data transfer speed

The latest PCIe-based SSD from OCZ, known as the OCZ Z-Drive R4 is offering a super high speed of data transfer of 2,800MB/s (Megabytes per second). It’s also capable of pumping at a rate of over 500,000 input-output operations per second (IOPS). All these massive figures are great for enterprise data applications and cloud computing that need high data transfer rate.

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Logitech to enable enterprise video conferencing on iPhone and iPad

Logitech wants to gain some market share of enterprise video conferencing, which has been dominated by Cisco products. Logitech now tap on the large user base of iDevices in business, going to enable video conferencing on the iPhone or iPad using their LifeSize Video Center device.

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Cisco’s Cius Enterprise tablet to arrive on Verizon 4G LTE network

The Cisco’s Cius enterprise tablet was announced back in June last year and is now said to be headed to Verizon for its 4G LTE network. The Cisco Cius is an Android-powered tablet that is best used for video conferencing.

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Toshiba announces MKxxx1GRZB series 2.5-inch Enterprise SSD

Toshiba has announced its latest enterprise-grade 2.5-inch solid state drives that belong to its MKxxx1GRZB series. The MKxxx1GRZB SSDs use the latest 32nm enterprise-grade SLC NAND flash memory from the company and boast a 6Gbps Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) interface.

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Cisco Cius Android tablet capable of HD video call

Cisco is interested in a bite of the tablet market share and has introduced their Android tablet, called the Cisco Cius. The Cisco Cius is capable of making video calls in HD resolution and equipped with a front-facing 30fps 720p video camera and a 5-megapixel for static images.

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Seagate ships 2TB 6Gbps Enterprise hard drive

Seagate has introduced their Enterprise drive, which is hard drive that comes with massive storage capacity of 2TB and supports the 6Gb/s SAS interface that allows high speeds of data transfer. The Enterprise drive offers reliability required by always-on or server applications.

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Pliant enterprise SSD with super high speeds, copies 2TB data in an hour only

Pliant Technology, a relatively new startup (a three-year-old) has produced a 3.5-inch Enterprise-grade SSD which can deliver read and write speeds of 500MB/sec and 320MB/sec respectively. These are equivalent to copying contents of a 2Tb drive in around an hour only.

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Floating Data Center: Ocean as the super cooler for servers!

A proper data center for locating various high-end servers, needs to have a good cooling system to cool all the servers in order for them to perform absolutely well. To provide good cooling system definitely involves pretty huge cost for paying electricity bills to support coolers. Now, a new Silicon Valley startup called International Data Security (IDS) has a much better approach of cooling servers in the data center i.e. making use of natural resources, which they have ships floating in the sea carrying your servers and make use of sea water to keep your servers perfectly cooled!

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Fusionio’s ioDrive starts at $2,400, cheaper than most SAN boxes!

Still remember the Fusion ioDrive? A piece of PCIe card that was deemed to replace SAN storage for the enterprise use. Now, there is a price tag with this super fast storage card.

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