Today Violin Memory Inc. launched two new starter kits that are geared toward getting customers to migrate toward all flash data centers and the benefits that come along with it, such as increased performance and high availability. Both starter kits feature Violin’s Flash Storage Platform (FSP) 7700 and have two different focuses, scalability and stretch cluster. The

Last month we reported that NetApp Inc. had announced that it was going to acquire SolidFire for $870 million in cash. This week NetApp closed the deal and will be combining SolidFire into its line of products. As we previously stated, the acquisition of SolidFire will combine the performance and economics of all-flash storage with a

Today Western Digital Corporation announced that its HGST Active Archive System has been certified with the FXT 5000 Series Edge Filer family from Avere Systems. This new combined system will combine the strength of the two products in order to enable enterprises to leverage the scalability and economics of cloud architectures, while preserving investments in file storage and applications.

Today IBM and Catalogic announced that a new set of solutions that combines Catalogic’s flagship product, ECX, with several of IBM’s products. The new joint solutions are aimed at modernizing IT infrastructure including automation of storage and data management, self-service capabilities, and complete RESTful API management.  This modernization should deliver superior results while lowering OPEX. The

WDC posted its second quarter earnings that were not as good as the company most likely hoped. While the news reported hasn’t been nearly as bad as say Nimble’s Q3 or Violin Memory’s Q3 it wasn’t nearly as positive as EMC’s 4Q and Full-Year earnings. It’s not all bad for Western Digital, in October they were given the go ahead

EMC has released its fourth quarter and full year earnings for 2015. Unlike several of the news pieces we’ve covered recently (such as Violin Memory, Nimble, and to a certain degree IBM) EMC’s earnings are looking pretty good. As the deal with Dell acquiring EMC for $67 billion is still going through according to Joe Tucci, EMC Chairman and CEO,

IBM announced an open beta for its Spectrum Scale Transparent Cloud Tiering. The beta will allow users to test functionality and offer feedback for this new program. IBM will use the feedback to raise software-defined storage (SDS) to a higher level than just cost-effectiveness. IBM hopes to promote innovations in SDS that will improve overall

Today EMC in introduces the latest version of its EMC Elastic Cloud Software, version 2.2. According to EMC, ECS is a software-defined, object-based cloud storage platform that provides global, petabyte-level scalability with compelling economics to customers. With ECS’s latest up it makes another strong addition to EMC’s suite of software-defined storage (SDS) solutions.

Permabit Albireo SANblox is a purpose-built data reduction appliance designed to unlock more capacity from Fibre Channel SANs. Permabit estimates users will see at least a 6:1 reduction in data footprint that resides on the SAN, allowing storage investments to massively alter the standard value proposition. SANblox offers deduplication and compression with thin provisioning, further enhancing the feature set. All