LaCie has announced the latest addition to the d2 desktop storage line, featuring a new all-aluminum unibody enclosure, dual Thunderbolt 2, and USB 3.0. The new LaCie d2 Thunderbolt 2 is designed to be upgradable to the fastest SSD solution on the market, which boasts speeds upwards of 1150 MB/s. 

Amplidata has announced that Western Digital Capital has made a $10 million strategic investment in the company. In addition, HGST has selected Amplidata’s Himalaya software to jointly develop a family of ultra-dense storage solutions in order to help tackle the rapidly growing demand to store data in both public and private cloud data centers.

HP has introduced their new HP Z840, Z640 and Z440 Desktop Workstations and HP ZBook 15 G2 and 17 G2 Mobile Workstations, combining increased system expandability, higher-speed memory, multicore updates, and access to the latest technologies to help customers future-proof their systems. The HP Z Desktops and HP ZBook Mobile Workstations are built to address the

NVM Express Inc. announced today that it is initiating an effort to specify a standard for NVM Express (NVMe) over Fabrics. NVMe over Fabrics will extend the benefits of NVMe to where usage over fabric is more appropriate than using PCIe. NVM Express also announced a revision of version 1.2 of its NVM Express Specification.

VMware Inc. has announced it is rebranding VMware vCloud Hybrid Service to VMware vCloud Air. VMWare vCloud Hybrid Service used preexisting tools to extend customers data centers into the cloud and is available in three service offerings: disaster recovery, dedicated cloud, and virtual private cloud. Along with the rebranding comes new improvements that will provide greater choice

Kaminario has announced unprecedented growth following the launch of their fifth-generation all-flash K2 array, just three months ago. In the second quarter, Kaminario achieved almost three times as many bookings as the previous year, all the while continuing its 100% customer satisfaction rate. Of their current customers, 80% have chosen to expand after their initial purchase.

At VMworld, Scality announced the latest version of their RING software, version 5.0. RING is a petabyte-scale, software-only storage solution that is designed to support file, object, and VM storage in a single storage pool without application customization, third party gateways, or storage appliance lock-in all at 50-70% lower cost. 

Nutanix has announced it has closed a $140 million Series E funding round at over a $2 billion valuation, bringing the company’s total funding to $312 million. The round was led by two Boston-based public market investors with over $3 trillion in combined assets under management. The newly attained capital will be used to invest

LaCie has announced the availability of their LaCie 8big Rack Thunderbolt 2 in a 48TB capacity. Originally announced back in April, the 8big Rack is the fastest, highest–capacity Thunderbolt 2 storage solution on today’s market, with LaCie quoting speeds upwards of 1,330MB/s when equipped with eight Seagate 6TB 7200 RPM enterprise hard drives. The 8big