Today Riverbed Technology announced the latest version of its branch converged infrastructure solution, SteelFusion 4.0 (SteelFusion was formally known as Granite). This time around, SteelFusion will act as what Riverbed is calling “zero branch IT.” All physical assets (servers, storage, and backup) at the remote branch will be completely consolidated. SteelFusion will lead to better application

Today Rubrik announced $10 million in Series A funding from investors such as Lightspeed Venture Partners, John W. Thompson, Frank Slootman, and Mark Leslie. Rubrik’s aim is to offer live data access for recovery and application development. Rubrik will use enterprise data management with web-scale IT, to eliminate backup software through what they are referring to as a

EMC has released a Service Pack, SP1, for the latest version of its unified backup and recovery software, NetWorker 8.2. The service pack is designed to enhance and expand on the new features in the 8.2 update that was released in April of last year.

VMware vSphere Data Protection (VDP) 6.0 is software that is designed to create image-level backups of virtual machines, virtual servers, databases and it can utilize application plug-ins to back up Microsoft Exchange Server, SQL Server, and SharePoint Server. VDP is powered by EMC Avamar and includes built-in replication of backup data to ensure DR compliance. The latest

ExaGrid Systems Inc. has announced that it had double-digit growth from 2013 to 2014. For its fourth quarter revenue, the company had record bookings and was both cash and P&L positive in all four quarters of last year and for the entire year of 2014.

​Unitrends has announced that the next generation of their Recovery-Series family of purpose-built backup appliances (PBBAs) is now available. The new portfolio includes 11 models that scale from 1TB to 97TB of raw storage and make cloud adoption much more affordable for companies of all sizes. With the release, Unitrends claims they are now the data-protection industry’s

Toshiba has announced the addition of 6TB SATA and SAS models to its MG04 series of 3.5-inch form factor enterprise capacity class of HDDs, which are specifically designed for midline and nearline business critical workloads. The new SAS interface models offer 12Gbit/s SAS transfer rate as well as enhanced power management features for easy integration

EMC today announced the release of a new version of its Avamar Virtual Edition which integrates the company’s Avamar solution with Microsoft Azure and Hyper-V. EMC’s Avamar offers variable-length deduplication, daily backups and recovery, and support for virtualized environments. Avamar Virtual Edition can be deployed in a Hyper-V virtual machine in order to serve as

The Spectra nTier Verde is either a 2U or 4U rack mountable NAS that serves as a secondary storage system. The Spectra nTier Verde is designed for ultimate simplicity, cost effectiveness, and data reliability. The simplicity message is key for this tier of storage, even those with no previous storage experience can easily install the Spectra