M7 Global Partners, Inc., a consortium of the nation's top datacenter and desktop virtualization consulting firms from across the United States, including Agile360 and Entisys Solutions; AEC Group; Gotham Technology Group; Intra Systems; IPM; and LPS Integration, and WhipTail Tech™, a manufacturer of Tier 0 solid-state SAN appliances, today announced a formal VAR partnership dedicated to realizing broader and deeper adoption of virtual desktop solutions. WhipTail’s solid-state Racerunner™ Virtual Desktop XLR8r is a purpose-built appliance designed to accelerate the deployment of virtual desktop infrastructures (VDI) by eliminating up to 90 percent of their associated storage and operating costs. The Racerunner XLR8r supports solutions from vendors including Citrix® Systems, VMware® and Microsoft®, making VDI a viable option for most organizations.

Texas Memory Systems, Inc., maker of the World’s Fastest Storage®, today announced the availability of the 10-TeraByte SLC Flash based RamSan-630 with 500,000 I/Os per second (IOPS) in a 3U enclosure. Currently, 10 Fibre Channel links (4-Gb) allow 4-GB/s of aggregated bandwidth for the RamSan-630. In a few months, new InfiniBand and 8-Gb Fibre Channel adapters will allow 8-GB/s of aggregated bandwidth. With these extreme performance numbers, the 10-TB RamSan-630 sets the standard for immediate (microseconds NOT milliseconds) high volume database storage access.

Dot Hill Takes Remote Replication Mainstream, Delivers Complete Suite of Disaster Recovery Applications Standard with Latest AssuredSAN Storage Systems Lineup

Company broadens portfolio of solutions for expanded, award-winning channel program; AssuredSAN 3000 Series brings midrange-featured solutions to entry-level customers.

Dot Hill Systems Corp. (Nasdaq: HILL), a provider of world-class storage solutions and software for OEMs, open storage partners and system integrators, today expanded its award-winning channel program with the introduction of its next-generation AssuredSAN(TM) disk-to-disk data protection appliances targeted at small-to-medium businesses (SMBs).

WhipTail Tech, a manufacturer of Tier 0 solid-state SAN  appliances, today announced the release of the world’s first data storage device  dedicated solely to the optimization of a virtual desktop environment – the Racerunner™ Virtual Desktop XLR8r.  This purpose-built appliance is designed to dramatically promote the deployment of virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) environments by removing 90 percent of associated storage costs.

Texas Memory Systems, maker of the World's Fastest Storage®, today announced its RamSan-620 Flash Solid State Disk (SSD) system has been certified as interoperable with Microsoft’s Windows Server 2008 R2. The RamSan-620 is a high-performance solid state storage system that delivers up to five terabytes of Flash in a single 2U chassis. The RamSan-620 is ranked number one in Price-Performance amongst any competing RAID or Flash solutions. This certification means that Windows Server 2008 R2 users can increase the productivity of key applications such as on-line transaction processing, data warehousing, high-performance data acquisition, batch processing, video editing, and SQL Server databases.

Quantum Corp., the leading global specialist in backup, recovery and archive, today announced availability of its new, all-inclusive DXi4500 disk backup appliances. The turnkey DXi4510 and DXi4520 work with the leading backup software packages to provide non-disruptive deduplication, helping small- and medium-size businesses (SMBs) and remote offices simply and cost-effectively address their backup needs. Both DXi4500 models come bundled with all DXi(TM) software licenses needed to support backup -- including in VMware environments -- deduplication and replication, starting at just $12,500 MSRP.

QStar Technologies announced today that it has joined the Active Archive Alliance as a founding partner. The Active Archive Alliance is a non-profit storage industry association dedicated to promoting active archives for simplified, online access to all archived data.

GreenBytes I

nc., a developer of high-performance, energy-efficient inline deduplication data storage solutions, today unveiled the GB-1000, a four terabyte SSD accelerated SAN and NAS appliance. The GB-1000 is GreenBytes’ latest addition to its GB-X Series of appliances that feature a next-generation storage architecture combined with highly innovative software technology and advanced power management design in an easy-to-use, cost-effective package purpose-built to bring the efficiencies of data deduplication beyond data protection and into the primary storage market.

The GB-1000 features a highly competitive price point while delivering real-timededuplication and restore performance. Unlike competing deduplication appliances, the4TB GB-1000 provides the performance, as well as connectivity and data management features that allow it to operate superbly in either data protection or primary storageenvironments. Additionally, inline deduplication, in conjunction with production-level performance, also makes the GB-1000 ideal for virtualized environments whereefficiencies of disk can reach above 50:1. The GB-1000 multi-protocol storage applianceoffers enterprise-class features including simultaneous support for both SAN and NASconnectivity, snapshots, remote replication, thin provisioning and a complete graphical management suite for configuration and system monitoring.

GreenBytes

® Inc., a developer of next generation high-performance, energy-efficient data storage solutions, today announced that the company’s GB-X Series of inline deduplication storage appliances have been certified as Citrix Ready. The Citrix Ready program helps customers identify third-party solutions that are recommended to enhance virtualization, networking and cloud computing solutions from Citrix. The GreenBytes GB-X storage appliances completed a rigorous verification process to ensure compatibility with Citrix StorageLink™.

FalconStor Software, Inc. (NASDAQ: FALC), the provider of TOTALLY Open™ data protection solutions, today announced the FalconStor® HyperFS™ file system, a high-performance, massively scalable solution for data-intensive applications that generate very large numbers of files. The HyperFS solution is an innovative file system that simplifies the management of large files, providing high-speed, low-latency file access to heterogeneous clients across a global repository that meets the performance and scalability challenges of the most demanding media and entertainment applications.

FalconStor Software, Inc.provider of TOTALLY Open™ data protection solutions, today announced that Government Computer News (GCN) selected FalconStor^® File-Interface Deduplication System (FDS) as the top storage product and the best of show overall at FOSE, held in Washington, D.C., this week.  

Dot Hill Systems Corp. (Nasdaq: HILL), a provider of world-class storage solutions and software for OEMs, open storage partners and system integrators, today announced that it has been granted six new patents by the United States Patent and Trademark Office, bringing the company's portfolio to a total of 62 patents.

Dot Hill Authorized Partner Program Recognized for Excellence by Leading Channel Authority

Dot Hill Systems Corp. (Nasdaq: HILL), a provider of world-class storage solutions and software for OEMs, open storage partners and system integrators, today announced it has been recognized by Everything Channel as one of North America's top information technology (IT) vendors for its Authorized Partner Program. Additionally, the Dot Hill Authorized Partner Program was recognized with a Five-Star rating, representative of an exceptional channel support program.

DISC Archiving Systems Inc., a newly formed subsidiary of DISC Archiving Systems B.V., has named ServRight, a leading technical service provider, as the authorized service provider for North America.

DISC Archiving Systems Inc. (DISC) is pleased to announce the appointment of Mark Brown as VP of Sales for North America.

CORAID® Inc., a leading developer of scale-out storage solutions with more than 1,100 customers worldwide, today announced sales of EtherDrive® storage arrays to more than 20 higher education customers around the world so far in 2010. Institutions adopting CORAID EtherDrive in 2010 include Rice University, Baylor College, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Northwestern University, University of North Carolina, University of Illinois at Chicago, University of Dublin, Lund University, University of French Polynesia, University de Jaén, Wake Technical Community College, St. Louis University, Florida A&M, Washington University, York University, The Sixth Form College, Australia Maritime College, Palmer's College, and Shanxi University. 

CORAID® Inc. , a leading developer of scale-out storage solutions with more than 1,100 customers worldwide, today announced the availability of EtherDrive® Z-Series NAS appliances. EtherDrive Z-Series combines the highly-respected ZFS open source file system with CORAID’s breakthrough Ethernet SAN technology to deliver unmatched price-performance and enterprise storage management capabilities. Advanced features include 10 Gb Ethernet, in-line deduplication, replication, unlimited snapshots, compression, automatic tiering, continuous data protection, file search, and thin provisioning.

CORAID® Inc., a leading developer of scale-out storage solutions with more than 1,100 customers worldwide, today announced availability for its new line of CORAID® EtherDrive® SRX-Series storage arrays, and unveiled an extended family of host bus adapters (HBA's) enabling high speed Ethernet SAN access for Windows, Solaris, and Linux environments. These new offerings further extend the price-performance advantage of EtherDrive Ethernet SAN solutions relative to legacy storage solutions.

CommVault announces its 2010 benchmark for excellence in technical support by achieving a 97 percent customer satisfaction rating, based on the results of the company's fiscal 2010 technical support services survey.

United Water, one of the nation's leading water and wastewater services providers serving more than seven million people in 24 states, has selected CommVault® Simpana® software to safeguard vital Oracle customer and operational data dispersed across 30 remote offices and two data centers.

BT, one of the world's largest communication companies with an integrated group of businesses that provide voice and data services throughout the UK and globally, has selected CommVault® Simpana® software as part of its continuing effort to reduce costs and improve service levels for its internal and external customers.

C2C, the leading provider of messaging system enhancements, today announced that MMR IT, a deliverer of data management and data protection solutions with a strong focus in the legal and financial sectors within the City of London, will be recommending C2C’s award-winning ArchiveOne® solutions. 

BakBone Software, a leading provider of storage and data protection software, today announced a realigned corporate strategy focused on its core markets. The realigned strategy includes the closing, effective today, of the Company's ColdSpark operations, which were acquired in May 2009. The Company will effect a smooth transition for those customers who currently utilize the technologies offered by ColdSpark to facilitate message management in enterprise environments. BakBone will record a non-cash impairment charge of approximately $12.6 million in the fourth quarter ended March 31, 2010 and expects to incur approximately $300,000 in personnel related expenses related to closing ColdSpark.

Leading Provider of Mapping Technology Deduplicates Its Data with NetVault: SmartDisk

Steve Martin Named Interim CEO; Company Expects Fiscal Fourth Quarter Bookings to be Within Guidance