Today Veritas Technologies announced that it has formed a technology alliance with Amazon Web Services (AWS). This new alliance will bring the capabilities of Veritas 360 Data Management to companies that are leveraging AWS. Veritas states that this will accelerate migration to the cloud as well as improve the management of applications and data across hybrid

Today Cohesity released two new products for remote and branch offices (ROBO): Cohesity DataPlatform Virtual Edition (VE) and Cohesity C2100 Hyperconverged Node. Combined with Cohesity DataProtect, the new DataPlatform VE an integrated software-only backup solution that, as the name implies, deploys on virtual machines (VMs). DataPlatform VE provides what Cohesity calls the first integrated data

Today Seatgae Technology announced that its HDDs and SSDs that are designed to meet federal security standards would now be even more secure. Seagate’s secure drives will now be integrated with advanced encryption key management software and services from Fornetix, LLC. The newly integrated secure drives give the federal government more tools to help fend

Today Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) announced what it is calling its most significant innovations to its 3PAR storage system to date. These new innovations include a new update to the HPE 3PAR Operating System, which should provide a futureproof foundation for Hybrid IT, a new Adaptive Data Reduction (ADR) for 3PAR, increasing DR over greater

VMware Inc. has made several updates and innovations to its VMware Horizon portfolio. Not only has Horizon been updated to 7.1, VMware is introducing Horizon Cloud, the next generation of virtual desktop and application cloud services from VMware, and Horizon Apps, a on-premises solution. VMware states that these new updates and innovations should drive down

Cisco has released the latest version of its hyperconverged system, HyperFlex 2.0. This new update is all about maximizing performance of applications in the data center. Cisco is also announcing two new, all-flash nodes for HyperFlex, the HyperFlex 220c All Flash and HyperFlex 240c all flash nodes.

Today Kaminario announced the latest version (sixth generation or Gen6) of its all-flash array (AFA), K2. The company states that with this new array they will be able to deliver multi-petabyte scale storage with the performance one expects from AFA. The Gen6 K2 is powered by Kaminario’s VisionOS operating system, which in their words “optimizes

Toshiba America Electronic Components, Inc. has announced the first drives in its new MN HDD Series. The drives are designed to be a bridge between high-end enterprise HDDs and entry-level desktop HDDs. The new series comes in capacities of 4TB, 6TB, and 8TB and deliver 7,200RPM rotational latency performance.

Caringo has introduced its new secondary storage platform for tackling Windows Server storage bloat. Caringo Swarm and FileFly 2.0 power the new platform. The idea behind the FileFly Secondary Storage Platform is to take infrequently accessed unstructured data off of primary storage onto a more cost-effective tier.