One of the challenges in delivering cloud services is to be able to access and manage data that reside in public, private, and hybrid cloud infrastructures. In many situations the service provider has to utilize different methods for the cloud variations and this creates complexity that hinders efficiency and the ability to manage these disparate
Seagate today announced details about its new Ultra Mobile HDD, designed as part of a Mobile Enablement Kit that aimed at manufacturers of tablets and other portable devices. At 5mm thick and 3.3oz in weight, the 2.5″ Ultra Mobile HDD is set to allow tablets to incorporate storage capacity on par with a laptop. Leveraging
Seagate has launched a new family of rackmount NAS products in their Seagate Business Storage line. The 1U designs accommodate standard 3.5" hard drives and come in 4-drive and 8-drive configurations for total capacity of up to 32TB. As the name implies these NAS units are deigned to slot into small business environments that need
I'm back in our Cincinnati-based lab after an insanely brief visit to Milan this week for EMC's much anticipated but hardly secretive launch of the "new VNX" and product updates, launches and so on. VNX2 was the highlight of the show of course, well, that and a menagerie of Formula 1 race cars from Lotus
Barracuda is announcing enhancements to its Copy for Companies file sync and share service which include expanded security capabilities, company visibility into employee accounts, and better control over incoming shared data. Having been originally released in February, Copy has also tweaked the GUI, admin page and folder management to improve the overall usability. Copy is
Kingston is announcing the forthcoming SSDNow E50, the company’s latest enterprise-class SSD engineered with affordable NAND for applications that do not have heavy endurance requirements. The SSDNow E50 will be positioned as the less-expensive sibling to the previously announced SSDNow E100, which features 30K NAND that is more suited for write-intensive server environments than the
VMware is announcing that it will begin a public beta for Virtual SAN, a new software-defined storage solution that extends the VMware vSphere Hypervisor in order to manage pools of compute and direct-attached storage, in Q3 2013. Virtual SAN clusters’ server disks and flash for VM use this so that storage can be centrally managed using
HP and VMware are announcing a new federated software-defined network (SDN) solution for unified automation of physical and virtual data center networks. The HP and VMware solution integrates the HP Virtual Application Networks SDN Controller with the VMware NSX network virtualization platform in order to provide automation of both physical and virtual network infrastructures. The
VMware is announcing its VMware NSX which enables the virtualization of existing network infrastructures. Using services from VMware NSX and its partner Ecosystem, this software can virtualize the network and manage the distribution of logical network functions into hypervisors in the data center. Administrators can provision complex, multi-tier virtual networks rapidly and independent of the
Nimble Storage is currently announcing its new SmartStack for Business Critical Applications architecture, which leverages Cisco Unified Computing System (UCS) B-series blade servers, VMware vSphere 5.1, and flash-optimized Nimble Storage CS-Series arrays. This architecture is designed to streamline the deployment of modular, 500-user converged infrastructure building blocks for applications such as Microsoft Exchange, SharePoint, and
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