Today Primary Data announced that its storage-agnostic data virtualization platform, DataSphere will be designed to serve as a Universal VMware vSphere Storage APIs for Storage Awareness (VASA) storage provider for VMware vSphere Virtual Volumes. DataSphere will also enable existing storage to become VMware VASA-compliant by abstracting the storage into a global dataspace through data virtualization.
Today ClusterHQ announced that has been working with VMware to integrate its Flocker container data management software with VMware vSphere. The two companies worked together to develop a pluggable storage driver for vSphere, providing portable and persistent shared storage for organizations using Docker containers in conjunction with VMware. This plug-in gives users direct access to
Maxta has announced an expansion of its MaxDeploy Program, which allows customers to easily order and deploy hyper-converged solutions that run on servers powered by Intel processors. This new expansion will include new MaxDeploy appliances based on Dell and Lenovo server platforms. Maxta recently added new hyper-converged management, which included historical reporting, enhanced policy management,
Samsung has announced the AutoCache v3.0, the company’s first enterprise-class caching software solution. As a collaborative effort with VMware, Samsung indicates that the caching software is set to be one of the first caching solutions used with the new VMware vSphere APIs for IO Filtering, which fully supports write-back caching in virtualized environments. Samsung acquired
Back in June of this year, Google Cloud Platform released their Container Engine into beta. Now after several months and several users having a chance to try it out and provide feedback, Google is launching its Container Engine to general availability. This follows the pattern Google recently set with the release of its Nearline, Dataflow, Pub/Sub, and the release
Today IBM announced it was adding new features to its Spectrum Storage Software Offerings. The new features will enable companies to prepare for using and backing up to the cloud. These new features are part of IBM’s $1 billion investment in software-defined storage (SDS), along with its other products for hybrid-cloud. IBM also stated that they
Today OneCloud software announced the general availability of its platform that provides automated disaster recovery (DR) of VMware-based data centers, OneCloud Recovery. OneCloud Recovery is the first and only platform that uses Amazon Web Services (AWS) as a virtual DR data center. OneCloud Recovery also has built-in cloud cost optimization, delivering DR for 50-75% less
Today Nexenta announced innovations for VMware Solutions along with their OpenSDS solutions they plan on showcasing this year at VMworld. These new innovations will enhance interoperability with VMware for Nexenta’s entire portfolio. Nexenta will also be showcasing NexentaStor 5.0.
Today Brocade announced the release or its new Analytics Monitoring Platform. Designed to lower costs and create a higher ROI, then new product line from Brocade gives IT high levels of monitoring and analysis between servers and storage. This enables organizations to better predict performance and operational stability of their IT infrastructure.
Today Scality announced it has raised another $45 million in Series D funding, bringing the total investment in the company to $80 million. This round of funding including a new investor in BroadBand Tower, Inc., existing investors such as Menlo Ventures, IDInvest, BPI France, Iris Capital, and Omnes Capital and Galileo Partners, and 65% of
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