PMC Sierra has announced that PMC is acquiring Integrated Device Technology’s (IDT) enterprise flash controller business as well as some of their PCIe Switch assets, their IP and 75 of their patents for $100,000,000. The PMC acquisition of IDT was made to propel PMC into the enterprise SSD space with state-of-the-art controllers such as the

TwinStrata is announcing the immediate release of its next version CloudArray 4.5 which has been evolving to simplify management and now offers a solution for on-demand disaster recovery via the disaster recovery as a service enhancement (DRaaS). CloudArray 4.5 introduces a new snapshot function that eliminates the need for separate backup software and can save

Pogo Storage and Nexenta Systems have introduced PogoRack, a petabyte-scale storage platform oriented towards government IT requirements that leverages NexentaStor ZFS and other open storage technologies. In doing so, PogoRack operates on an industry-standard hardware platform to reduce overhead for cloud, virtualization, database, and other on-demand data applications. PogoRack targets government IT environments that often

EMC has announced new additions to their Documentum product line targeting customers in the Energy, Life Sciences and Healthcare industries. Based on the Documentum Enterprise Content Management (ECM) platform, these solutions help customers address mission-critical information management challenges by improving efficiency, productivity and reliability. Additionally, EMC is announcing news regarding their Certified Solution Program. The program

EMC is announcing the EMC Data Protection Suite which offers users a simple licensing model whereby they can access a whole range of EMC software products to help archive and backup their data environments. This flexible licensing model enables organizations to shift with consumers’ demands for different services. By offering the software in the Data Protection Suite, EMC also

EMC is announcing support for Policy-Driven Hybrid Cloud, EMC ViPR and EMC VNX on the EMC Syncplicity file sync and sharing product. The support for policy-driven hybrid cloud means that customers will be able to simultaneously access private and public clouds. Additionally, storage performance will be optimized. All of this will be done with consideration

EMC is announcing an enhanced version of their Storage Resource Management Suite and a new product called Service Assurance Suite to provide administrators with unadulterated views into storage, network, and compute infrastructures. This announcement also highlights new integration with the forthcoming EMC ViPR software-defined storage. The new EMC Service Assurance Suite and updated EMC Storage

EMC is announcing that it is working on a new version of EMC Isilon OneFS scale-out NAS operating system which will include deduplication, audit and security features and several other updates. The other enhancements to EMC Isilon OneFS are object-oriented storages, Hadoop HDFS 2.0 and Syncplicity file sharing updates. EMC’s Isilon is designed to be

Proximal Data is announcing enhancements to their AutoCache hypervisor caching product that removes I/O bottlenecks to accelerate reads and writes while also improving VM density by 2-3 times. AutoCache and its I/O Intelligence utilize PCIe flash and SSDs to store hot data to increase application performance. Newly updated features are abundant in AutoCache. It can