Quantum has announced StorNext 5.3, the latest version of the company’s scale-out storage platform comprised of a wide range of advanced data management capabilities optimized for demanding workflows. Not only does it power Quantum’s new Xcellis high-performance workflow storage solution, Artico NAS archive appliance, and the company’s new Q-Cloud Vault service, version 5.3 also incorporates end-to-end

Today Permabit Technology Corporation released the latest version of Albireo Virtual Data Optimizer (VDO), version 5.2. The latest release will deliver increased efficiency and Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 7 support.

Today Ravello Systems announced that it would enable broad access to Nutanix Community Edition through fully automated and customizable deployments on Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Google Cloud. Ravello is using its nested virtualization and software-defined networking technology for rapid design and testing in the public cloud allowing users to bypass the costs that are involved in

Today at DockerCon Europe 2015, VMware Inc. announced that its Photon Controller, one of the components of its Photon Platform, is now available as an open source project. First announced at VMworld, the Photon Platform is a purpose-built solution designed to meet this emerging need and features in order to run cloud-native applications at scale.

Today at DockerCon Europe 2015, ContainerX launched the beta of its new comprehensive, multi-tenant container platform designed for enterprise IT admins. This new platform provides a single pane of glass for all containers allowing support for Linux and Windows, bare metal and virtual machines, private and public cloud environments.

Today Data Dynamics Inc. announced the release of the latest version of its intelligence-based storage management solution, StorageX 7.7. Data Dynamics states that this release will expand its lead in software defined migration solutions. The update brings new abilities to scale as well as faster migration speeds due to the upgrade to a 64bit architecture.

Today Coho Data announced the release of the latest version of software that powers their arrays, DataStream 2.6. This latest release integrates with VMware Site Recovery Manger. This integration will bring users easy disaster recovery, failover, and failback.

Red Hat Inc. announced that its Gluster Storage is available in Microsoft Azure as a fully supported offering. Through Gluster, Azure users will have a scale-out, POSIX compatible, massively scalable, elastic file storage solution with a global namespace. This announcement also means that existing Gluster users will have another public cloud environment to run Gluster

Unitrends announced today that in collaboration with Amazon Web Services (AWS) it is launching a Test Drive for Unitrends Boomerang. The AWS Test Drive is a sandbox environment that gives IT administrators, with enough free AWS datacenter time, the ability to learn about and investigate third-party solutions.