Today VCE announced that it is updating its converged infrastructure portfolio with new platform and software innovations and updates. VCE is announcing a new scale up and scale out architecture, VCE Vscale Architecture; a new family of converged infrastructure systems, the VxBlock Systems; and the latest version of its converged infrastructure management software, VCE Vision

Today Google introduced a new low cost storage service that allows business to store near limitless amounts of data, Google Nearline Cloud Storage. Nearline acts similar to cold storage, storing all data whether it appears business critical or not, but has the speed and accessibility of the Cloud.

PROMISE Technology today announced the forthcoming launch of its VSky A-Series family of storage solutions which are designed to support petabyte-scale volumes for applications such as backup and archiving, media editing, video surveillance, virtual environments, and content delivery. The A-Series uses a single flat namespace as part of an architecture that can be deployed with

X-IO Technologies has launched its own series all-flash arrays (AFA), the ISE 800 Series. This marks an expansion of X-IO’s Intelligent Storage Element (ISE) storage portfolio, which also includes the X-IO ISE 700 and ISE 200 Series. The new ISE 800 Series has also achieved the  number one position for price-performance in the Storage Performance Council’s SPC-1

Today Barracuda Networks announced that several of its storage solutions have achieved VMware Ready – vCloud Air status. The status indicates that Barracuda’s products have undergone technical validation within the vCloud Air environment, and are supported on VMware vCloud Air. The solutions that achieved this status are Barracuda NG Firewall, Barracuda Message Archiver, Barracuda Spam Firewall, and Barracuda

Today IBM unveiled two new all-flash enterprise storage solutions, the FlashSystem V9000 and the FlashSystem 900. These two new all-flash solutions are aimed at helping organizations by providing industry-leading performance, reliability, and efficiency by accelerating data-intensive applications, all the while lower costs.

Today EMC has announced new products and solutions to support the Data Lake Foundation, leading with the new Isilon HD400 NAS platform that offers a 2.5x increase in maximum capacity over the previous generation. This increase allows for Isilon-based EMC Data Lake deployments with cluster sizes up to 50PB. EMC has also announced an updated

FalconStor Software Inc. unveiled the industry's first horizontal converged data service platform, FreeStor. FreeStor allows data to flow horizontally across older and newer technology, both physical and virtual. The new unified platform works across arrays, servers, hypervisors, data centers, and the cloud to provide migration, continuity, protection, recovery, and optimization.

When organizations evaluate options for hardware and software infrastructure, they must decide whether they would rather choose the emerging hyper-converged infrastructure category or build their own solution using handpicked vendors of their choice. A big driver for the former option is the “single throat to choke” argument, which has been heard and made so many times