Barracuda has been investing heavily in better security for Microsoft Azure lately. Last week they launched Cloud Security Guardian, an agentless Software-as-a-Service security solution for Azure. Today, Barracuda is building on that release with an update to its CloudGen Firewall.

Today Quest released version 6.0 of their QoreStor software. QoreStor is a software-defined deduplication and replication (e.g., for disaster recovery) platform. We covered its initial release in August of last year. Version 6.0 is a surprisingly high number for a product released only eleven months ago.

In this edition of Before the Home Lab we'll look at installing Citrix Hypervisor, formally called XenServer. Citrix Hypervisor is the virtualization platform based on the Xen Project. It used to be the best alternative for getting VMware-like features in an open source product until version 7.3. Since version 7.3, the following features were moved behind Citrix Hypervisor's

This week’s News Bits we look at a number of small announcements, small in terms of the content, not the impact they have. StorONE and Seagate partner to maximize SSD performance. SUSE Manager 4 released. StorCentric acquires Vexata. HP refreshes its commercial desktop portfolio. Cisco intends to acquire Acacia. Juniper releases Juke 2.2. Hammerspace DaaS now available

Today at the AWS Global Summit, Alluxio announced the latest version of its data orchestration technology, Alluxio 2.0. The latest version comes with new innovations for data engineers and is aimed at multi-cloud analytics and AI.

Today Barracuda launched its Cloud Security Guardian for Microsoft Azure. Through the integration with Azure, customers will be able to work securely with Guardian’s automated public-cloud security compliance and remediation. Cloud Security Guardian is an agentless Software-as-a-Service solution that is stated to provide end-to-end visibility into the security posture of public cloud workloads, ensures continuous

Google has announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Elastifile. The acquisition is subject to customary closing conditions, including the receipt of regulatory approvals and is expected later this year. Once everything is set, Elastifile will join Google Cloud.

Today Tachyum Inc. announced that is has finalized a Series A funding round that netting the company $25 million. The funding round was led by the private equity investor group IPM and had participation of the Slovak Government. The funding raised is aimed at bringing the company’s Prodigy Processor Universal Chip to market by the

Today DataCore Software announced its new vision of storage infrastructure with DataCore ONE. The company states that ONE aimes to accelerate the adoption of software-defined storage (SDS) in enterprise data centers, the cloud and edge computing; centralizing command and control of different classes of storage spanning primary, secondary and archive. Along with this, DataCore announces