Today Pivotal Software Inc. announced major updates to its Pivotal Big Data Suite. The new updates include upgrades to Pivotal HD Apache Hadoop distribution and Pivotal is claiming up to a 100 times performance improvement for its analytics solutions, including Pivotal Greenplum Database. The new upgrades are aimed at helping customers manage ballooning data sets

EMC has announced major updates to its data protection portfolio with new products that provide data protection in the cloud, to the cloud, and in the data center. EMC believes that this will allow customers to significantly reduce cost and complexity all the while protecting their data wherever it may be.

EMC Corporation has announced new updates to the EMC VMAX3 platform designed to provide new levels of automation, modernization, and consolidation to customers. In addition, EMC is extending enterprise data services to multiple platforms with the launch of FAST.X, automating storage tiering across the data center.

EMC has announced a multi-year vision and new product offerings related to the future of content management at EMC World 2015. Announced by the company’s Enterprise Content Division, part of this new vision includes “Project Horizon,” which is a next-generation content platform and apps marketplace that helps CIOs and enterprises to pursue their digital agenda, strengthen

In response to the emergence of social media, Cloud, and Big Data that continues fueling the digital evolution, EMC has announced new enhancements across its Documentum portfolio of enterprise content management (ECM) applications, allowing their customers to address next-generation ECM. EMC indicates that it will accomplish this by optimizing current investments as the backbone for

Today HP announced that it is making several contributions to OpenStack Kilo (released today as well). These new contributions include new converged storage management automation as well as new flash storage technologies. These are aimed at simplifying provisioning while improving performance and resiliency for consolidated block and file workloads.

In advance of EMC World next week, EMC announced today that its enterprise file sync product, Syncplicity, is gaining in an add-in for Microsoft Outlook. The new add-in will allow users to easily send files and folders same as they always have, only now the files and folders will be sent as links inside of Syncplicity instead

Today Hitachi Data Systems unveiled the next phase of its Social Innovation Strategy. HDS believes its Social Innovation Strategy will make societies safer, smarter, and healthier. HDS is also announcing new solutions and services to go along with its Social Innovation Strategy. These solutions and services include: Hitachi Live Insight for IT Operations, Hitachi Clinical

Synology has several NAS offerings for home, office, and even enterprise applications. All of their DiskStation NAS units are powered by Synology DiskStation Manager (DSM) 5.1 operating system, with 5.2 on the horizon. DSM offers lots of good, free apps to users, such as the recently reviewed Surveillance Station 7.0. Another free app that all users have