Earlier this week Scale Computing announced that it was adding flash-enabled automated storage tiering into its HC3 platform. This update adds hybrid storage including SSD and spinning disk with HyperCore Enhanced Automated Tiering (HEAT). The update will also allow users to tune performance on different workloads to make sure that they are getting the performance that they

Pivotal announced today that its latest round of series C financing has landed the company $253 million in new cash. One of the major new investors this go round was Ford Motor Company in conjunction with Microsoft. Pivotal also raised money from its existing investors including GE, EMC, and VMware. This funding round is expected

This week Metalogix announced the launch of its Essentials for Drives: File Shares to OneDrive Freemium. With this new program, users will be able to migrate up to 500 drives (or users) or 1TB of file share content (including files, folders, versions, metadata, and permissions from file systems, file shares or Network Attached Storage (NAS))

Netgear has announced the addition of three new powerful switches to its portfolio of second-generation ProSAFE 10GbE Smart Managed Switches: the XS748T, which offers 44 copper 10GBASE-T ports and 4 additional dedicated 1GbE/10GbE SFP+ ports for 10G fiber links; the XS716T, which includes 16 copper ports of 10-Gigabit connectivity, 2 of which are shared/combination copper/SFP+

Today at the last day of EMC World 2016, EMC Corporation announced new and enhanced projects under its EMC {code} umbrella. The new project is known as Polly, an open source framework that enables storage allocation in scheduling environments such as Cloud Foundry, Docker, Kubernetes, and Mesos. EMC is also announcing integrations and enhancements to

John Roese is EMC's CTO, charged with leading the technical strategic vision for the company. John wears many hats at EMC including overseeing hardware development, managing specialized market segments like telco, and is involved in core aspects of the Dell integration – to name a few. In this podcast we talk about three core disruptions John sees coming

Today at EMC World Conference 2016, Primary Data announced its storage-agnostic DataSphere platform connects EMC systems including ScaleIO software-defined scale-out block storage solutions, Isilon scale-out NAS storage, and Amazon S3 cloud storage. Primary Data demonstrated this at their booth, 165, showing how data virtualization enables enterprises to integrate the capabilities of their diverse storage resources. Primary Data

Eaton Corporation announced a new uninterruptible power system (UPS) for small- to mid-sized data centers, the Power Xpert 9395 high-performance model. The new high-performance models include 200-600 kilowatts (kW)/kilovolt-amperes (kVA) in North America. These latest models complete the Xpert 9395 portfolio. This portfolio can help reduce TCO and are scalable to meet the ever-increasing power

Manuvir Das is an SVP in the Advanced Software Division of EMC's Emerging Tech division. Manuvir sits down with us in this podcast to discuss three core technologies including ViPR, ECS (Virtustream), and the new VxRack Neutrino nodes. Manuvir has an interesting perspective on the growth of ViPR after going open source, the distinction between