NetApp has announced new enhancements to its E-Series platform. Designed for high-performance applications and data-intensive workflows, the new and improved E-Series platform establishes a foundation for highly available, high-capacity, performance-optimized application workflows in critical vertical markets. This includes sectors such as healthcare, security, media and entertainment, and high-performance computing markets such as oil and gas,

EMC’s recent acquisition of Syncplicity has borne fruit in the form of integration between EMC’s information management platform Documentum and Syncplicity’s file synchronization, mobility and collaboration technology. This announcement also marks the availability of Syncplicity Mobile 2.0, with mobile support on iOS.

Hitachi Data Systems Corporation (HDS) today unveiled Hitachi Accelerated Flash storage, a new MLC flash module featuring a rack-optimized form factor and a new multi-core flash memory controller from Hitachi Ltd. Hitachi Accelerated Flash storage is available now for the Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform (VSP), introducing new functionality including inline write compression to the VSP.

Synology has announced its most powerful 2-bay DiskStation NAS to date, the DS713+. The DS713+ comes equipped with a Dual Core 2.13 GHz processor, 1GB of DDR3 RAM, dual-LAN failover and link aggregation support, and hot swap support with a maximum internal capacity of 8TB (2X 4TB HDD). They have also announced the rack-mounted RS3413xs+

NetApp has updated their midrange storage platforms with the FAS3220 and FAS3250. The FAS3200 platforms aim to help SMBs and SMEs improve performance, reliability and scalability in their NAS/SAN environments. NetApp has optimized both units for flash storage to increase performance, they are cluster-enabled to support non-disruptive operation and support increased total capacity.

EMC has announced that it has doubled the distance supported for moving VMware vSPhere vMotion workloads between active-active data centers with EMC VPLEX virtual storage. In addition, they also announced new VPLEX capabilities that will shape the way customers think about how they share data in VMware hybrid clouds to eliminate data center boundaries while

HP has announced it is the first technology partner to be certified by SAP for its HP AppSystems for SAP HANA portfolio with the disaster tolerant (DT) architecture. This will allow customers to host a second HANA system that can take over for their production system in the event of a significant outage such as

OCZ has released version 1.2 of its VXL cache and virtualization software, an update which enables host-based distributed flash volumes with high availability and fault tolerance. VXL 1.2 can power SAN-less infrastructures where flash data is synchronously mirrored between OCZ Z-Drive R4 PCIe cards on redundant cluster servers to make host-based flash continuously available across

HP has announced the newest version of HP Insight Control Storage Module for vCenter, version 7.1. Control Storage Module is a plug-in for VMware’s vCenter management console, enabling VMware administrators to quickly obtain context-aware information about the HP storage in their VMware environment directly from vCenter.