Today Dell EMC announced free, non-disruptive, data-in-place software updates to its Unity family of storage systems. These updates can really see a gain in capacity as they support both inline compression as well as support for the higher capacity flash drives. With an eye on the modern data center, Unity will now have expanded capabilities

Today Arcserve, LLC announced the release of its second-generation Unified Data Protection (UDP) Appliance series. Arcserve is making the bold claim that this new UDP series will be the most cost-effective and easily-deployable purpose-built backup appliance in the data protection industry. No surprise, the new series of applicanes is fully integrated with Arcserve’s UDP software.

This week's New Bits looks at Kaminario’s new cloud-based analytics platform, Clarity, for its all-flash array (AFA), Kaminario K2. In Druva’s round E fundraising the company raised an additional $51 million. And Google Cloud Platform (GPC) now serves over 1 billions end users and has newly added enhancements.

Today Tegile Systems announced a partnership with Splunk to run its analytics on Tegile’s IntelliFlash systems. By integrating these two technologies, customers will be able to gain insights from machine-generated data (MGD) and Internet of Things (IoT) data that is running on Tegile’s storage infrastructure. As this data grows, Tegile’s storage will be able to

This week at Microsoft Ignite 2016 in Atlanta, Georgia, Lenovo announced that it is working with Microsoft to tackle the demands and concerns pertaining to escalating storage needs. Lenovo will be building off of Azure and Windows Server 2016 to deliver what it calls cloud-based, next gen IT solutions designed to expand customer capabilities and

SUSE Enterprise Storage is a software-defined storage solution powered by Ceph designed to help enterprises manage the ever-growing data sets. Further, SUSE aims to help by taking advantage of favorable storage economics as hard drives continue to get larger and flash prices continue to fall. While typically configured as a hybrid, Ceph is ultimately as flexible as the

Today Datera announced the latest version of its Elastic Data Fabric platform with new enhancements. As we’ve preciously said, Datera Elastic Data Fabric is scale-out storage software that turns standard, commodity hardware into a RESTful API-driven, policy-based storage fabric for large-scale clouds. Datera states that their solution is the first storage solution for enterprise and

Hedvig has announced the latest version of its comprehensive software-defined storage platform, Hedvig Distributed Storage Platform Version 2.0. The latest version includes features delivering multi-workload, multi-cloud and multi-tier capabilities. Hedvig states that the latest version is the realization of its vision for the Universal Data Plane. Also recently announced, Hedvig states that its Universal Data

Today at NetApp Insight in Las Vegas, NetApp announced an update to its NetApp ONTAP 9 software, six new flash systems, and expanded public cloud support. These announcements will help customers as they transition to the hybrid cloud that more and more companies will leverage as the industry moves forward. NetApp is also pointing out