Barracuda and Drobo have announced a joint endeavor to offer a Drobo 5N client for Barracuda’s Copy cloud storage platform. The Drobo 5N is a NAS appliance for small office environments and prosumer applications such as photography, video, and other types of digital content creation. The Copy client will allow 5N users to designate shared

Dell has announced the DR4100, an update to their backup and recovery appliance line that is based on the Fluid Data Architecture. The DR4100 is highlighted by support for deduplication and compression at rates of up to 15 to 1, to help customers tame data sprawl with more efficient storage. While the DR4100 can start

NetApp today announced the availability of its new all-flash EF540 array, intended for performance-driven application and data center deployments. The EF540, built on the SANtricity operating system, can provide more than 300,000 IOPS and sub-millisecond latency in a highly available, fault-tolerant architecture. The company has also released a preview architecture for its new FlashRay product

HP today announced new HP StoreVirtual Storage systems based on the company’s ProLiant Generation 8 (Gen8) technology, aimed at midsize virtualized environments and HP channel partners with entry-to-midmarket storage portfolios. HP has also introduced a channel-only StoreSystem solution with 3PAR StoreServ Storage and StoreOnce Backup functionality.

EMC has announced Continuous Availability Advisory Services for organizations evaluating deployment of or improvement to their continuous availability (CA) architecture. CA provides redundancy for organizations that have mission critical applications that need to be able to sustain multiple types of hardware and infrastructure outages while still providing steady performance and uptime. The new service combines

Dell today announced new workload-optimized solutions for Dell server, storage and networking systems running the SAP HANA real-time analytics database platform. Dell also announced Active System Manager 7.0, the management layer for the company’s converged infrastructure offerings, which integrates recently-acquired Gale Technologies IP to deploy virtualized infrastructure and applications.

X-IO Technologies has announced the second generation ISE Station XL, a pre-configured 1 petabyte storage solution that offers over 1 million IOPS across four 44U racks. According to X-IO, this release reflects the company’s commitment to tuning the ISE Station product line to reduce cost-of-deployment by at least a third.

Dell is now accepting proof-of-concept requests to implement Cloud Client Computing for Retail, an in-store cloud environment. Cloud Client Computing for Retail is made up of three modules: thin and mobile endpoints with and without POS peripherals; on premise desktop virtualization infrastructure; and cloud-based desktop virtualization infrastructure. Dell’s recent acquisitions of Wyse, SonicWALL, and Quest

ioScale is Fusion-io’s half-length ioMemory PCIe drive, available in capacities up to 3.2TB with a single controller. A small form factor server outfitted with ioScale cards can reach 12.8TB or more, a typical application for ioScale in the datacenter. In the past, ioScale has only been available for order in the thousands of units, but