Forbes - forbes.com - Seagate and Western Digital both made major announcements of SSD initiatives covering both enterprise and client solid state storage initiatives.

Seagate announced 4 flash memory products, 3 conventional SSDs and one a PCIe acceleration card with recently announced partner, Virident. Seagate has made a significant financial investment in Virident and this is the first official result of that investment. Seagate’s 600 GB 6 Gb/s SATA SSD is the first notebook oriented SSD product from Seagate...

StorageNewsletter.com - Seagate Technology plc announced its new portfolio of flash-memory solutions.

The company took the wraps off its first client SSD and its next-generation enterprise SSDs. Featuring the Seagate 600 SSD, Seagate 600 Pro SSD, and the Seagate 1200 SSD, the new line of drives are engineered to deliver fast speed and high data integrity. Rounding out the portfolio, Seagate also announced the new Seagate X8 Accelerator, a storage class memory PCIe card powered by Virident Systems, Inc. enabling the company to offer all key interfaces including SATA and SAS solutions....

TheSSDreview.com - Seagate this morning announced an entire line of solid state drives to encompass consumer and enterprise SATA, enterprise 12Gb/s SAS and enterprise PCIe applications. It’s consumer retail and server level introductions are the Seagate 600 and 600 Pro SSDs, the 600 client SSD being the first SSD released at a z-height of 5mm. Seagate supplied TSSDR with a 480GB version of the client 600 and we have posted our full report parallel to this release.

Computerworld - computerworld.com - Seagate Technology today announced its new portfolio of solid-state drives (SSDs) -- including its first consumer model for laptops -- and a new PCIe flash card.

The new 2.5-in drive series includes the consumer-class Seagate 600 SSD, the 600 Pro SSD, the 1200 SSD, and the new X8 Accelerator, a PCIe flash memory card from Seagate's partnership with Virident Technology. The new PCIe card offers all the key storage interfaces including SATA and SAS...

The Register - theregister.co.uk - Hard drive-maker Seagate's third quarter profits slipped by a whopping 64 per cent year-on-year as the company's bottom line was hit by users deserting desktops for tablets.

Revenues for its third fiscal 2013 quarter were $3.53bn, 20 per cent down on an annual basis when revenues were pumped up through Thai flood drive shortages driving up prices, and 4 per cent less on a sequential basis. Seagate has now had two consecutive quarters of revenue falls. Profits (net income) were $416m compared to $492m in the previous quarter and a massive $1.1bn a year ago. Those flood waters have well and truly receded.....

TechTarget - Dave Raffo - Storage industry veteran Mike Gustafson became CEO of PCIe flash card startup Virident Systems in September 2012 after spending six years as CEO of NAS vendor BlueArc, which he sold to Hitachi Data Systems (HDS) in 2011. Gustafson also spent a year with HDS after the acquisition, and was a senior vice president at Fibre Channel switch vendor McData for six years before going to BlueArc.

TheRegister.co.uk - Chris Mellor - The PCIe flash card suppliers are heading towards a battle royale: there's too many of them for a commoditising hardware business.

There are at least 15 suppliers of PCIe flash cards, gear that tightly couples a wad of non-volatile NAND storage to a computer's backbone: EMC, Fusion-io, IBM-TMS, Intel, LSI, Micron, OCZ, OWC, Samsung (products coming), SanDisk, Seagate-Virident, STEC, SuperTalent, Toshiba (products coming), Violin Memory and Virident....

StorageNewsletter.com - StorageNewsletter Staff - Virident Systems Inc. announced a software suite to deliver a shared server-side flash storage tier. FlashMAX Connect suite extends the functionality of server-side flash storage solutions to create a flash-storage management layer.

It offers the low latency and unconditional performance of FlashMAX II combined with the manageability, shareability and HA of a traditional SAN architecture...