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Catalogic Software Announces General Availability Of ECX 2.0

Catalogic Software has announced the general availability of the latest version of its copy data management platform, ECX 2.0. The software gives administrators control over the proliferating data copies. Once administrators can effectively manage, orchestrate, and analyze their copy data they can leverage it to lower costs while enabling mission critical business operations.

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HP iLO 4 Review

There have been several methods of Out-of-Band (OOB) Management for server assets over the years.  The two that are still quite popular are KVM (Keyboard/Video/Mouse) switches that are often IP-enabled, and some form of Lights Out Management such as HP’s iLO (Integrated Lights-Out Management.)  All Out-of-Band Management solutions can make maintaining and supporting servers elsewhere

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NVIDIA And VMware Deliver Scalable Rich Graphics Applications To Remote Desktops

Since VMware released their new vSphere 6 with its new features, we have mentioned Dell and HP's support for vSphere 6. Now NVIDIA announced that NVIDIA GRID vGPU has been introduced to VMware Horizon 6 built on vSphere 6. NVIDIA GRID vGPU on VMware Horizon 6 will enable customers to run the most advanced, graphics-rich applications in remote desktops.

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Synology Announces Surveillance Station 7.0

Today Synology America announced the launch of Surveillance Station 7.0, the latest version of its awarding winning NVR solution. Surveillance Station was designed to turn any DiskStation or RackStation into a network video recorder. Surveillance Station 7.0 has a redesigned user interface, integration for other connected devices, expanded support for specialized cameras, and ONVIF 2.4

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Dell Announces VMware vVols and VSAN 6 Support

Dell has announced they will be releasing VMware Virtual Volumes (vVols) integration to all Dell Storage PS Series (EqualLogic) customers upon its general availability; at no additional cost. vVols is a major update to the vSphere storage stack, providing Dell Storage customers with VM-aware storage, which allows them to save time and streamline management. Dell also announced their latest

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VMware Launches Virtual SAN 6 And vSphere Virtual Volumes

Today VMware Inc launched the latest version of their software-defined storage solution, Virtual SAN 6 (VSAN). VMware Virtual SAN 6 has significant scalability and performance enhancements including new all-flash configuration support. VMware will also introduce the industry’s first solution to enable native Virtual Machine-awareness across a broad range of third-party storage systems, VMware vSphere Virtual Volumes

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Unitrends Provides Automated Backup Certification & Disaster Recovery For Hyper-V And vSphere

Unitrends has announced the general availability of the industry’s first automated disaster recovery failover and testing solution for Microsoft Hyper-V environments, ReliableDR 4.0. Unitrends will now be able to deliver recovery assurance to Hyper-V administrators that it had only been delivering to businesses running VMware vSphere Hypervisors.

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Simplivity Introduces OmniCube CN-2200

Simplivity has introduced a new addition to their OmniCube hyperconverged infrastructure, the OmniCube CN-2200. The CN-2200 is an upgraded replacement for the CN-2000. This new device offers broader scalability, more use cases, and starts at a lower price point.

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IBM Teams With Anthem To Strengthen IT Performance

IBM announced today that it has a new strategic technology service with Anthem Inc. The deal is valued at $500 million USD and will run for the next five years. IBM will provide Anthem with operational services for their mainframe and data center server, as well as provide operation services for Anthem's storage infrastructure.

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VMware Announces Service Enhancements For vCloud Air

With the recent rebranding of their vCloud Hybrid service as vCloud Air, VMware continues in their effort to simplify the use of their Disaster Recovery solution, VMware vCloud Air Disaster Recovery, while providing extended capabilities to their service. VMware announced several service enhancements to their DR as well as announcing the general availability of vCloud Air Virtual Private Cloud