The acquisition of Broadcom by Avago Technologies has finally been completed in accordance with Singapore law while subject to certain filings with the Office of the Secretary of State of California. The deal was originally announced last May for $17 billion in cash consideration and the economic equivalent of approximately 140 million Avago ordinary shares.

Today Cisco announced a few new Fiber Channel (FC) solutions for its MDS line. These new announcements include the MDS 9718, which Cisco is calling the industry’s highest port density Storage Area Networking Multi-layer Storage Director. Cisco is also announcing the new 40 Gigabit FCoE Line Card for Cisco MDS Storage Directors, Cisco Nexus 5672UP-16G

Today Arcserve LLC, announced the newest version of its Unified Data Protection (UDP). The latest version is said to deliver continuous availability and simplicity from within a multi-platform solution set. UDP introduces advancements such as data protection for Linux environments, instant VM recovery and instant Bare Metal recovery, unified installation and enhancements for third party

Druva has announced new Disaster Recovery (DR) functionality for Phoenix to further increase the efficiency of their converged cloud-based data protection solution for enterprise infrastructure. Phoenix was first announced back in October of 2014, which was the industry’s first backup and archival solution for both physical and virtual server environments direct to cloud. The new DR functionality

Today IBM and Catalogic announced that a new set of solutions that combines Catalogic’s flagship product, ECX, with several of IBM’s products. The new joint solutions are aimed at modernizing IT infrastructure including automation of storage and data management, self-service capabilities, and complete RESTful API management.  This modernization should deliver superior results while lowering OPEX. The

Eaton Corporation has released a rack that is flexible and space efficient along with a cable management solution for high-density network equipment and data center applications. The new rack series is called the Eaton B-Line series High Density Network Rack System. While that is quite a mouthful, they call it HDNR for short. Compared to

In this podcast we interview Paula Long, CEO and Co-Founder of DataGravity. DataGravity offers insight, analysis and protection of data via their combination of hardware and software. Primarily targeted toward organizations that have a large amount of unstructured data, especially if they're regulated, DataGravity is unique in their ability to understand what is being stored

Seagate Technology released its second quarter earnings for 2016 with revenue being up from the previous quarter but down from this time last year. Seagate’s second quarter earnings are about on par with WDC’s 2Q. In other words, their results are not fantastic but they are leaning more positive than say Nimble’s Q3 or Violin Memory’s Q3.

WDC posted its second quarter earnings that were not as good as the company most likely hoped. While the news reported hasn’t been nearly as bad as say Nimble’s Q3 or Violin Memory’s Q3 it wasn’t nearly as positive as EMC’s 4Q and Full-Year earnings. It’s not all bad for Western Digital, in October they were given the go ahead