LaCie has announced a significant capacity increase for their 5big Thunderbolt 2 professional 5-disk storage solution by leveraging Seagate’s new 8TB Enterprise NAS HDDs. With this new build, the updated LaCie 5big now offers an impressive 40TB in storage (i.e. 33 percent capacity increase compared to the last generation) as well as an extended warranty.

So far today Cisco has made a few announcements about expanding its portfolio, surrounding its switches and its new HCI platform. Now Cisco is planning on bolstering its cloud options with its intent to purchase the privately held CliQr Technologies Inc. CliQr, which is already integrated into several of Cisco’s data center switching and cloud solutions, including UCS and

Cisco threw its hat in the hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) ring today with its new HyperfFlex systems. Cisco claims the HyperfFlex systems is a complete hyperconvergence system and has everything first generation HCI lacked. HyperfFlex is based off of Cisco’s UCS and integrates next generation data platform with a proven converged network and compute platform. HyperfFlex

Along with all the Gen 6 Fibre Channel announcements this morning, Cisco is also making some networking announcements around new data center switches and software. Cisco’s new switches and software help customers future proof their data centers in a cost–effective way. The new announcements feature the new Nexus 3000, 9200, 9300EX, and 9500 series. These

Today Broadcom Limited announced its latest family of family of Emulex Gen 6 Fibre Channel host bus adapters (HBAs). This new family of HBAs is designed to address the growing enterprise data storage requirements of flash storage arrays, virtualized and cloud datacenters. Broadcom was recently acquired by Avago for $17 billion in cash though the company kept

Western Digital Corporation has announced the addition of 8TB drives to its line of storage solutions for NAS, video surveillance and desktop external use cases. Each of these storage solutions will be equipped with HelioSeal helium-technology 8TB HDDs, which will allow for both maximum storage and efficient performance. WD has also indicated that some products

Brocade has announced the release of their Gen 6 Fibre Channel switch for storage networking, the Brocade G620, indicating that the new high-density SAN switch will boast unprecedented performance and scalability designed to support data growth and demanding workloads from mission-critical applications. Brocade adds that their Gen 6 Fibre Channel technology will allow organizations to

Today QLogic Inc. is announcing that it is currently shipping its new Gen 6, 32Gb Fibre Channel Adapters, the QLogic 2700 series.  According to QLogic its new series of adapters will enable greater virtualization density and improved database performance, combined with increased operational efficiency. QLogic is also announcing that its QLogic 2690 Series Enhanced Gen

Hot on the tails of the introduction of the DSSD D5 and VMAX All Flash, EMC has announced new features for its VMAX and Disk Library for mainframe storage products. VMAX support for mainframe (VMAX3 and the new VMAX All Flash products) allows their customers to modernize, automate and consolidate disparate data center technologies through