Symantec has announced new solutions and integrations with VMware across its product portfolio as Symantec and VMware celebrate the milestone of more than 100 integrations between the two companies’ products. The newly announced integrations focus on improving visibility and control of virtual applications, reducing the performance impact of backup and recovery, achieving security and compliance

Synology has announced the launch of its first new 2013 DiskStation NAS devices, the DS213 and DS213+. Both models offer two drive bays and are intended for SOHO and SMB use. The DS213 and the 213+ are available immediately and are priced near $300 and $370, respectively.

Today at VMworld, VirtualSharp Software announced a free version of its flagship ReliableDR that provides customers with production-ready disaster recovery replication functionality, heartbeat certification and RTO measurement. ReliableDR Free Edition has an agentless, modular plug-in architecture that supports all versions of vSphere including the Essentials kits.

Proximal Data has announced a collaboration with LSI Corporation to develop an adaptive caching solution that addresses disk I/O bottleneck problems that occur as the number of virtual machines deployed within an infrastructure increases. AutoCache plugs into hypervisors like VMware to inspect all blocks from all virtual machines to place hot I/O into a local

Toshiba’s Storage Products Business Unit has announced it is expanding its enterprise Solid State Drives (eSSD) family with the PX-Series, which will debut in the fourth quarter with three models targeted for different applications. The new PX02SM, PX02AM, and PX03AN drives span a variety of price and performance points, but all offer power-loss protection and

Astute Networks has announced the release of its ViSX G4 Flash VM, a 2U storage appliance that will be able to provision up to 140,000 sustained random IOPS that is fully shareable by virtual machines on all hosts over pervasively deployed 10Gb or 1Gb Ethernet networks.

SafeNet has announced the immediate availability of StorageSecure, a self-contained NAS hardware encryption appliance developed in collaboration with NetApp. StorageSecure is designed to drop into the network between clients and servers, linking them via a hardware cryptographic path to provide data isolation in multi-tenant environments.

Dell has announced the new PowerVault MD3 dense array, their most dense storage array ever, housing up to 180TB in a 60-drive 4U rack enclosure. Dell bills the PowerVault MD3 as a flexible mainline storage array for SMBs up to enterprises that need bulk storage that’s flexible enough to grow with data storage demands over

SanDisk has announced a new version of their FlashSoft caching software designed for use in virtual environments. Already available for Windows and Linux, the new product supports VMware vSphere 5.0 and later. FlashSoft installs in the host OS, without the need for agent software installed in the VMs. FlashSoft is also SSD independent, working with