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

Today Nasuni announce the availability of the latest version of its Nasuni File Services, version 7.5. This updated version features upgrades to the Nasuni Management Console, improved support for OS X and key engineering applications, and the ability to side load local filers. Nasuni is also announcing that individual storage volumes within its cloud-native filesystem,

Today the Storage Network Industry Association’s (SNIA) Storage Management Initiative (SMI) announced the completed version (Version 1.0) of the SNIA Swordfish storage management specification. This specification extends the Distributed Management Task Force (DMTF) Redfish application programming interface (API) to handle the management of storage equipment and storage services found in modern data centers. The new

Fresh off finalizing its merger between Dell and EMC, Dell EMC announced today its first combination of technology, a rack-scale flash solution that combines the EMC DSSD D5 and Dell PowerEdge R730 servers. This new solution, called the Dell EMC DSSD D5 Rack-Scale Flash solution, is ideal for SAS analytics infrastructure. Both companies state that SAS 9

Today Dell Technologies completed its acquisition of EMC Corporation creating the world’s largest privately controlled tech company. Combined the companies create a $74 billion market leader with a wide breadth of products and solutions that cover a large portion of the industry including hybrid cloud, software-defined data center, converged infrastructure, platform-as-a-service (PaaS), data analytics, mobility,