Today CTERA Networks announced that it was releasing version 5.0 of its Enterprise Data Services Platform. CTERA Enterprise Data Services Platform is currently deployed by Global 1000 enterprises and leading cloud service providers. The platform is designed to transform private or public cloud infrastructure into scalable, secure, business-critical data services, addressing the storage, data protection

Today Dot Hill Systems Corp. announced that it had been awarded yet another patent, making this its 102nd US patent, this time for a remote replication feature. This new feature enables customers to leverage cost-effective, entry-level storage systems, thus greatly reducing the cost of storage deployments.

Today IBM announced new servers, storage and mainframe software, and solutions designed for cloud computing. IBM’s new products are aimed at helping customers create hybrid cloud environments. In line with helping customers adopt hybrid cloud environments, IBM is also releasing flexible software licensing of its industry-leading middleware.

VMware has shipped the latest release of EVO:RAIL software to its partners, version 1.1. EVO: RAIL is designed to dramatically simplify delivery and deployment of software-defined infrastructures in a rapid and repeatable manner, as well as simplifying configuration, on-going management, patching, and upgrading of software (with zero-downtime and automatic discovery of any new appliance added).

Veeam Software announced two new free tools, Veeam FastSCP for Microsoft Azure and a new Veeam Management Pack (MP) v8 for Microsoft System Center. Both of these new tools are aimed at helping customers more easily adopt Microsoft’s hybrid cloud into their IT strategy. Veeam will be demonstrating both tools in booth number 114, at

Today Panzura announced a new solution aimed at solving the challenges of running VDI and application virtualization completely in the cloud, SkyBridge. SkyBridge co-locates a consistent, locking file system in the cloud that is identical to the file system in the corporate datacenters and then eliminates networking challenges in between. This will give enterprises the

VMware Inc. announced the general availability of its Virtual SAN 6.0 health check plug-in. As the name implies, the plug-in addresses the health of the hardware and configuration of VSAN. The plug-in keeps in line with VSAN’s core benefit of keeping things simple as it reactively and proactively alerts users to issues in the VASN including issues

Today Dell Inc. announced several storage offerings aimed at helping businesses cost-effectively adapt and scale their data centers to keep pace with increasing IT demands. Dell address both current and future methods of dealing with the massive growth of data with new entry-level array series, Dell Storage SCv2000 Series, higher performing dense storage arrays, Dell

Google announced a new cloud service today, Google Cloud Bigtable. Cloud Bigtable is a fully managed, high-performance, extremely scalable NoSQL database service offered through the industry-standard, open-source Apache HBase API. The new service is powered by Bigtable, the same database that drives Google Search, Gmail, and Google analytics.