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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

Citrix has announced the newest release of XenMobile (version 10) enterprise mobility management (EMM) solution. XenMobile 10 improves the mobility experience for end users all the while automating and simplifying the IT deployment and management. The newest release includes UI and design enhancements focusing on streamlined workflows, which are part of the XenMobile suite of

Citrix has announced XenServer 6.5, their newest release of the company’s commercial virtualization platform based on the open-source Xen Project hypervisor. With the update, XenServer now offers a full 64-bit kernel architecture, which allows customers to leverage the latest hardware and OS platforms, and supports enterprise-grade networking, storage and workload management.

Toshiba has announced new branded storage product offerings at CES 2015, including the TransferJet, which enables fast point-to-point wireless data transfer between PC and mobile devices; FlashAir III Wireless SD Card, which is a storage device that allows users to share their images, videos and files wirelessly; Canvio Connect II Portable Hard Drives, which are a