DataDirect Networks (DDN) has made a series of announcements this year at SC14. These announcements include a collaboration with Intel, combining Intel’s Enterprise Edition for Lustre software with DDN’s EXAScaler solution. The validation of DDN’s Infinite Memory Engine burst buffer and application accelerator through continued customer adoption and the release of the latest performance tests.

Today Hybrid Memory Cube Consortium (HMCC) announced the finalized and publicly available of its new specification HMCC 2.0. The new specification is a commitment to evolving a family of specifications aimed at all high-performance computing (HPC) applications.

Maxta announced that its hyper-converged solution is the first to be certified by Cisco and will be running on the Cisco Unified Computing System (UCS) C-Series Rack-Mount systems. The solution will also support clusters spanning metro distances.

HP today announced fortchoming updates to its MSA Storage solution that leverages SSDs to add data tiering. and other virtualization functionality to the company's entry-level Fibre Channel arrays. HP's updates place a priority on using the fourth-generation MSA architecture to make technologies including sub-LUN tiering, thin provisioning, and intelligent storage automation more accessible to budget-constrained IT

Synology is now shipping their DS1515+ (5 bays) and DS1815+ (8 bays) DiskStation units, its newest Plus series multi-bay NAS designed to facilitate intensive data exchange, collaboration, and reliable backups for small and medium-sized businesses.

Dot Hill Systems has announced the launch of its new Ultra56 AssuredSAN Hybrid Storage Array. The new hybrid array is based on an ultra-density chassis supporting both NEBS level 3 carrier and MIL-STD government requirements. The Ultra56 AssuredSAN hybrid storage array is ideal for telecommunications carriers, service providers, and tactically deployed government installations that have

Cray Inc. announced the launch of the latest addition to its line of scale-out Lustre storage solutions, Cray Sonexion 2000 system. The Sonexion 2000 is designed for a broad rand of supercomputing workloads. The system can scale throughput performance around 2TB/s in a single file system and it features up to 360TB of useable capacity

Nutanix has released a new tool as part of their Nutanix “Nirvana” Service Delivery Platform, the Nutanix Sizer Tool. With this new tool customers will be able to know which Nutanix appliance model is best for running their specific workloads, how many nodes needed for optimal capacity and performance, and the rack layout, power, and

HP has announced several enhancements to its HP 3PAR StoreServ Storage family to help customers get more out of both new and existing arrays by taking better advantage of SSDs. These enhancements are a combination of free software upgrades that unlock more performance within 3PAR arrays with intelligent flash management and performance tuning, along with analytics that