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Seagate Combines Cloud, HPC, and Electronic Solutions
Seagate Technology announced today that it was combining its Cloud Storage, High Performance Computing, and Electronic Solutions groups. Seagate is leveraging this combination to further align the company’s full breadth of enterprise storage hardware capabilities.
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Brocade Redefines Networking For IP Storage
Today Brocade announced the industry's first purpose-built storage connectivity portfolio for both data center and disaster recovery applications. Brocade claims this new portfolio will redefine networking for IP storage, helping enterprise IT teams manage growth, mitigate risk, and reduce costs. EMC will integrate this new technology into its Connectrix family of network switches and management software.
April 30th, 2015 by Adam Armstrong
HP Announces Multiple Contributions To OpenStack Kilo
Today HP announced that it is making several contributions to OpenStack Kilo (released today as well). These new contributions include new converged storage management automation as well as new flash storage technologies. These are aimed at simplifying provisioning while improving performance and resiliency for consolidated block and file workloads.
April 30th, 2015 by Adam Armstrong
Dell Launches Major Updates To DR Series
Today Dell Inc. released a major update to its DR Series of deduplication appliances. The updates include performance and scalability upgrades, the addition of encryption at rest, and VTL and NDMP backup support. The updates are for the DR6000, DR4100, and the DR2000v and are all aimed at enhancing security, improving performance, and increasing flexibility.
April 30th, 2015 by Adam Armstrong
EMC’s Syncplicity Adds Outlook Email Add-in
In advance of EMC World next week, EMC announced today that its enterprise file sync product, Syncplicity, is gaining in an add-in for Microsoft Outlook. The new add-in will allow users to easily send files and folders same as they always have, only now the files and folders will be sent as links inside of Syncplicity instead of file attachments. Syncplicity is also announcing the integration MS Office apps for iOS.
April 29th, 2015 by Adam Armstrong
Infinidat Announces An Additional $150 Million In Investment By TPG
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Today Infinidat announced that in a second round of funding it has an additional $150 million dollars in funding from TPG Growth, the growth equity platform of global investment firm TPG. This brings Infinidat’s total funding up to $230 million giving the company a valuation of $1.2 billion. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
April 28th, 2015 by Lyle Smith
Diablo Technologies Wins Decisive Victory Against Netlist in ULLtraDIMM Lawsuit
The ongoing legal battle between Diablo Technologies and Netlist, concerning ULltraDIMM technology, seems to be coming to an end with the announcement that the United States District Court for the Northern District of California ruled to completely dissolve a preliminary injunction enacted in January 2015. Diablo indicates that this ruling definitively reaffirms their right to ship its their Memory Channel Storage chipset without restriction and believes that the last part of this back-and-forth legal process will have the court awarding Diablo the bond posted by Netlist, which also occurred in January of this year.
April 28th, 2015 by Adam Armstrong
StorMagic Launches SvSAN Management Pack for Microsoft SCOM
Today StorMagic launched its SvSAN management pack and system management provider (SMP) for Microsoft System Center Operations Manager (SCOM). The new management pack enables users to centralize monitoring of their entire SvSAN through a single pane of glass. The pack also includes real-time alerts and monitoring capabilities, so issues can be identified and addressed quickly.
April 28th, 2015 by Adam Armstrong
Hitachi Unveils Next Phase Of Social Innovation Strategy
Today Hitachi Data Systems unveiled the next phase of its Social Innovation Strategy. HDS believes its Social Innovation Strategy will make societies safer, smarter, and healthier. HDS is also announcing new solutions and services to go along with its Social Innovation Strategy. These solutions and services include: Hitachi Live Insight for IT Operations, Hitachi Clinical Repository for connected health, and Hitachi Live Insight Center of Excellence.
April 28th, 2015 by Adam Armstrong
Hitachi Unveils Lineup Of Software-Defined Infrastructure
Today Hitachi Data Systems (HDS) unveiled its new lineup of software-defined infrastructure solutions that are designed for all transactional and analytic driven workloads. HDS is helping customers leverage information gathered through virtualized, hyper-converged and scale-out platforms to accelerate the journey to IT as a service (ITaaS). HDS is working on this by automating operations to simplify the technology, give customers better access to information, and turning fixed assets into flexible resources.
The Netgear WAC120 Wireless Access Point is a dual band 802.11ac AP designed for home and small offices that demand both performance and cost effectiveness. It supports up to collective throughput of 1.2 Gbps (300 Mbps for 2.4 GHz and 867 Mbps 802.11ac for 5 GHz) with the ability to operate in a standalone mode. Equipped with a user-friendly interface and a flexible desktop mounting stand, Netgear indicates that the WAC120 is built for easy setup, allowing users to simply connect to DSL gateway, routers, or cable modems. In addition, its Wireless Protected Setup (WPS) button gives clients an easy way for auto configuration.
The Netgear ProSAFE FVS336G is a VPN Firewall designed specifically for remote offices, branch offices, and telecommuters offering secure network access to headquarter locations. The FVS336G provides businesses with an extensive feature-set including Stateful Packet Inspection (SPI), multiple VPN pass-throughs , Network Address Translation (NAT), AES, and 3DES Encryption, Denial of Service (DoS) protection and more. It also offers protection against DoS attacks and unwanted traffic as well as SYSLOG, and SNMP, which allow for detailed network monitoring.
Lexar recently announced 
The Samsung SM951 M.2 is a high-performance, low-powered PCIe SSD that is designed for use in both ultra-slim notebook PCs and workstations. The SM951 is very similar to the HP Z Turbo drive that we reviewed inside the 
Synology has several NAS offerings for home, office, and even enterprise applications. All of their DiskStation NAS units are powered by Synology DiskStation Manager (DSM) 5.1 operating system, 
Back in September 2012, HGST first announced their 
