Today Synology Inc. announced the latest release of its award winning DiskStation Manager (DSM), version 6.1. The latest version of DSM comes with several enhancements, new applications, and refined data protection. Synology states that these updates will lead to a more secure, productive, and unified NAS experience.

Today Cohesity announced that it would be integrating with Pure Storage to bring faster data protection and recovery. Not only will this native integration speed up data protection performance, but users will also be able to leverage the public cloud aiding in long-term data retention and accelerating DevOps with, according to the companies, instantaneous copies

This week’s News Bits we look at a number of small announcements, small in terms of the content not the impact they have. Cavium’s QLogic FC and Ethernet technologies are now available on HPE Synergy Composable Infrastructure blade server platform. Stratoscale acquires Tesora and releases new services. Rubrik updates its Cloud Data Management platform. Cisco now offers

Today Nexsan announced the release of two new features on its Unity solution, Unity Active Archive and Desktop. Active Archive will enable users to automatically archive unstructured data with policy-based guidelines. Not only does this allow companies to make their data even more secure, they can also enable their users to easily access the files

Today Cloudian Inc. announced its new high-density object storage platform, the HyperStore 4000 appliance. The new appliance is designed to meet the demands of ever growing data without taking up lots of valuable data center space. Cloudian states that the new appliance can deliver on-premises performance with cloud-like prices, 40% lowers cost per GB compared

Today Dell EMC announced that its turnkey hybrid cloud platform, Dell EMC Enterprise Hybrid Cloud (EHC), will soon be available on Dell EMC’s VxRail Appliances. Dell EMC EHC on VxRail addresses both the increasing move by companies to adopt both hybrid clouds and adopt hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI) for mission critical workloads. EHC on VxRail will

Today Cisco announced its second quarter earnings. As the trend of poor earning reports seems to be turning around, Cisco’s earnings aren’t fantastic but they are a far cry from some of the numbers we’ve seen in the last six months. Cisco also announced an increase in quarterly cash dividends. Cisco’s stock performance is up

Today Panzura introduced a new product line that enables organizations to tackle the growing unstructured data challenges through a combination of cloud storage economics and flash performance. This new Freedom product line consists of Freedom Archive, Freedom NAS, and Freedom Collaboration. As the name implies, this new product line can free companies from storing unstructured data

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