Today IBM introduced what it is calling the first cloud object storage service to redefine the security, availability, and economics of storing, managing and accessing massive amounts of digital information across hybrid clouds, IBM Object Storage Service. This new offering will include over 400 patents that IBM claims will deliver clients better value in the

Igneous Systems came out of stealth today and announced their first product, the Igneous Data Service. The idea behind the Igneous Data Service is to deliver Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) on customer premises. This gives customers what Igneous refers to as a “true” cloud for local data.

Hitachi Data Systems (HDS), a wholly owned subsidiary of Hitachi, Ltd., made a few announcements around improving and accelerating digital transformation initiatives. HDS is introducing three new solutions to tackle these issues: Hitachi Enterprise Cloud (HEC), Hitachi Management Automation Strategy, and enhancements to the Hitachi Unified Compute Platform (UCP) 2000. HDS also added a host

Today Quantum Corp announced its new Scalar storage platform that is designed to store and manage the ever-increasing volumes of unstructured data. The first products based on this new storage platform include the tape libraries, Scalar i6 and Scalar i3, as well as the purpose-built rich media archive appliance, StorNext AEL6. The new storage platform

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