Imation Corp, a scalable storage and data security company, has announced that it has acquired privately held California-based Nexsan Corporation, provider of disk-based storage systems. Imation plans to build a platform for long-term growth and to improve operating margins in high-growth data storage and security solutions markets.

The iXsystems Titan iX-316J is a 16 3.5″ bay, JBOD storage expansion shelf. The JBOD has become a permanent fixture of the Storage Review lab, enabling us to directly connect SATA or SAS drives to a host compute system via LSI 9207-8e SAS expander. The iX-316J can be used in a variety of use cases,

Unitrends, provider of all-in-one backup, archiving, instant recovery and disaster recovery solutions, has announced Unitrends Release 7.0. This next generation software powering of physical and virtual backup and recovery appliances boasts data protection in virtualized and cloud environments, all the while providing an expanded range of platform and enterprise application support.

Pure Storage today announced new all-flash VMware-certified FlashArray VDI reference architectures and starter kits designed to deploy for less than $100 per seat. VDI Starter Kits can support a pilot for hundreds of users that later scales to more than five thousand users. Pure Storage’s VDI environments are intended for applications that range from traditional, stateless

EMC has announced general availability of Atmos 2.1, including details on several new features for Atmos that were not available when the 2.1 update was first announced in May. Atmos G3-Dense-480 hardware with a new x86 Intel architecture and a new release of Atmos GeoDrive Windows 1.1 round out the Atmos enhancements.

HP today introduced updates and additions across its Converged Storage portfolio to simplify and streamline the transition to a unified enterprise storage architecture for all deployment sizes. The refresh extends throughout HP’s 3PAR StoreServ Storage, StoreAll Storage, and StoreOnce Backup product offerings. The HP Converged Storage system is designed to overcome legacy storage limitations with a

HP’s 3PAR StoreServ Storage lineup has been enhanced with systems and functionality to better support midmarket organizations adopting virtualization and cloud computing. Today’s announcement includes details about HP’s new 3PAR StoreServ 7000 Storage systems as well as resiliency and quality-of-service updates to the HP 3PAR Operating System Software.

HP’s StoreOnce lineup has added new StoreOnce 2000 and 4000 Backup systems for small and midsize businesses that offer up to two times faster native performance than their predecessors. Earlier this year, the company introduced HP StoreOnce Catalyst software for the enterprise StoreOnce 6000 series backup solution. Now, the entire line of StoreOnce Backup solutions

HP has today announced details about its new StoreAll Storage, a highly scalable platform for unstructured data with converged object and file storage services for up to 16 petabytes (PB) of data with billions of objects and files in a single name space. The platform includes HP StoreAll Express Query, an embedded metadata database technology