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Veeam Commissions A Study Showing The $16 Million Dollar Price Of Downtime

Veeam Software has released the results of its latest annual Availability Report; this year marks its fifth. The study illustrates the demands of customers who want always-on 24/7 enterprise and though companies recognize this, the amount of downtime and frequency is actually going up. The report showed that 84% of IT decisions-makers (ITDMs) from numerous

Enterprise  ◇  SSD

Toshiba SG5 Client SSD Announced

Toshiba has announced the SG5 Series of client solid state drives (cSSD), the company’s first client SATA SSD to support 1,024GB capacity in an M.2 form factor. The SG5 also features 15nm TLC NAND flash memory to reach high storage capacities while maintaining a small form factor and driving down costs for consumers. Toshiba indicates

Client Software  ◇  Consumer

Hitachi Data Systems Announces HCP Anywhere Version 2.1

Hitachi Data Systems has announced version 2.1 of their Hitachi Content Platform (HCP) Anywhere, which allows service providers and IT organizations to offer secure content mobility solution to their users under their own brand. New features of HCP Anywhere v.2.1 allow external parties to upload data to shared folders, enhance team folders, and offers new

Consumer  ◇  NAS

WD My Cloud EX2 Ultra NAS Now available

Western Digital has updated its prosumer portfolio with the high-performing 2-bay My Cloud EX2 Ultra NAS, an update to the My Cloud EX2. WD’s new storage solution is designed for creative professionals that need to automatically sync content across computers, easily share files and folders, and need multiple backup options.

Enterprise  ◇  Software

HPE Announces New Analytics Tools For Apps

Today Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) announced the availability of its new Application Performance Monitoring (APM) software suite, HPE AppPulse Trace. This new addition to the APM portfolio enables developers to leverage application analytics to pinpoint and fix issues at their source, down to the exact line of code and server.

Enterprise  ◇  Software

Caringo Releases Swarm 8

Today Caringo announced that it has released the latest version of its object storage software, Swarm version 8. Swarm 8 is offered as a complete software appliance. Users can consolidate all files onto Swarm and quickly search for the data they need reducing total cost of ownership.

EMC & VMware Introduce HCI VCE VxRail Appliance Family

Today EMC Corp and VMware Inc. announced their jointly engineered hyper-converged infrastructure appliance (HCIA) for VMware environments, the VCE VxRail Appliance family. Billed as the “best of both worlds,” the VxRail brings together the rich data services and leading systems management capabilities of EMC and combines it with VMware’s leading hyper-converged software that includes VMware

Tintri Announces Its Cloud Service Provider Solution

Today Tintri Inc. launched its Tintri Cloud Service Provider Solution. This new solution gives cloud service providers (CSPs) an easy way to grow their service using Tintri. Tintri goes on to claim that CSPs using Tintri can guarantee high performance, transparent VM-level analytics, and differentiated services.

Nutanix Updates Its Software

Today Nutanix released updates to its web-scale computing platform, Acropolis 4.6, and updates to its data management, Prism 4.6. Nutanix claims that customers can see upwards of 4x performance improvement for any workloads without additional hardware or software licenses. Nutanix goes on to state that customers will still have the freedom to choose hypervisors without

Consumer  ◇  HDD

Seagate Is Now Shipping The Highest Density Mobile HDD

In September Seagate Technology announced that they had developed the world’s density mobile hard drive (HDD) with up to 2TB in a 7mm form factor. Last month Seagate also announced what they referred to as the world’s thinnest 2TB portable hard drive. Today Seagate is announcing that they have begun shipping their new ultra thin Seagate Mobile HDD