Veritas Technologies LLC announced that it has upgraded its enterprise-class data protection solution, NetBackup, to version 7.7.1. This latest upgrade fully supports Amazon Simple Storage Service Standard-Infrequent Access (Amazon S3 Standard-IA). This upgrade gives Veritas customers an expanded choice for backup and recovery within Amazon Web Services (AWS).

Today IBM announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Cleversafe Inc. later this year. Cleversafe being a lead developer and manufacturer of object-based storage software and appliances will strength IBM’s position in storage and hybrid clouds. Once the deal is completed, Cleversafe will be integrated into IBM’s Cloud business. Financial terms

Today WinMagic Inc. revealed the results of a survey, conducted by CensusWide, showing that several UK companies are potentially vulnerable to cyber attacks and data breaches due to employee use of cloud storage. The survey was of 1,000 offices with at least 50 employees. The survey found widespread employee use of cloud storage services that

Today NVIDIA announced that Microsoft would be offering its GPU-enabled professional graphics applications and accelerated computing capabilities to enterprise customers through Microsoft Azure, Microsoft’s cloud platform. Azure is the first cloud-computing platform to provide NVIDIA GRID 2.0 virtualized graphics for its customers. The partnership between the companies aims to deliver accelerated graphics and high performance computing to

Google has announced yet another new cloud technology within its Cloud Platform line, Google Cloud Dataproc. This new cloud technology is aimed at making Hadoop and Spark easier to deploy and manage within Google Cloud Platform. Much like the recent announcement from Dell and Cloudera, this technology allows the use of Hadoop without the high costs

Today Dell announced that it was partnering with Cloudera and Syncsort to create a new solution for Hadoop. The new solution is aimed at streamlining the extract, transform, and load (ETL) process. ETL is the process of planning, design, construction and deployment process of transforming data into a ready state for analysis, then loading it

SolarWinds announced that its Storage Resource Monitor (SRM) now supports even more vendors, bringing the total amount of array families supported up to 17. SolarWinds SRM now supports EMC, Hitachi, HP and IBM storage array families and provides monitoring capabilities for hierarchical storage pools. With the addition of these new vendors, SolarWinds states that they

Today HP announced the general availability of the latest version of its integrated enterprise cloud solution, Helion CloudSystem 9.0. Along with the software update, HP is also introducing a new platform optimized for CloudSystem 9.0, the HP ConvergedSystem 700.

Today CTERA Networks announced that it has integrated its Enterprise File Services Platform with HP’s Cloud Service Automation (CSA). This integration enables IT to automate the deployment and management of enterprise file services across a hybrid cloud delivery model and enables IT-as-a-Service (ITaaS) delivery of enterprise file services.