Hedvig announced that it has joined the Cisco Solution Partner Program as a Solution Partner. This membership enables Hedvig to deliver integrated solutions to joint customers of Cisco and Hedvig. Hedvig also announced that Luossavaara-Kiirunavaara AB (LKAB), the world’s technologically leading supplier of iron ore to the global steel industry, has chosen Hedvig Distributed Storage

Actifio has commissioned IDC to research on how enterprises control their critical data, looking at copy data. The research found that two-thirds of companies failed to meet best practice standards for data control. With this study, Actifio is also announcing that it has seen dramatic growth in the number of its enterprise customers, as Actifio’s

Continuing on with the October theme of acquisitions, today SolarWinds announced that the private equity firms Silver Lake Partners and Thoma Bravo would acquire it. The deal is valued at $4.5 billion. The two firms state that they will pay shareholders $60.10 which is 44% over its closing price on October 8th.

Today at Dell World 2015, Dell Inc. announced that it has been working with Microsoft to release a new hybrid cloud solution. This expansion of Dell’s cloud portfolio is all about making the path to cloud more attractive to customers by tackling the barriers that make them hesitate. On top of that, Dell now has

EMC Corporation and VMware Inc. announced that they would be combining their respective cloud capabilities (including the existing Virtustream cloud offerings) to form a new cloud services business under the Virtustream brand. The new Virtustream cloud services will be jointly owned 50:50 by both VMware and EMC and the current CEO of Virtustream, Rodney Rodgers,

FalconStor Softwre Inc. and Kaminario announced that they will be leveraging FreeStor in the K2 All-Flash Array v5.5. FreeStor, an intelligent software defined platform, will enhance the K2 by providing enterprise-class data migration and multi storage vendor replication features that quickly and efficiently meet the stringent customer requirements of today’s complex datacenter ecosystems.

Today Carbonite, Inc. announced that it has enhanced its portfolio of both hardware and software disaster recovery (DR) solutions. Carbonite is also releasing five new backup appliances (ranging up to 8TB in capacity) and the latest version of Carbonite Server Backup – Carbonite Server Advanced. Carbonite offers SMBs lots of flexibility in DR with multiple

Today Datagres announced a major upgrade to its PerfAccel Analytics and Acceleration solution, PerfAccel 3.0. Datagres states that this makes a major milestone in the evolution of their software-defined data management platform. The latest release aims to redefine the ease of management and the breadth of deployment for server based operational storage intelligence.

Today at VMworld Europe 2015, VMware Inc. announced two major updates in its cloud management platform, VMware vRealize Automation 7 and VMware vRealize Business 7 Standard. VMware had recently released VMware vRealize Operations 6.1 and VMware vRealize Log Insight 3, those releases combined with today’s announcement represents a complete refresh of its cloud management platform.