Barracuda has launched its new suite of cloud services aimed at making Microsoft Office 365 more secure and operate more efficiently, Barracuda Essentials for Office 365. Barracuda Essentials for Office 365 is an easy-to-deploy and manage suite of services that are the combination of three of Barracuda’s existing products: Barracuda Email Security Service, Barracuda Cloud

IMB has released its fourth quarter earnings and it is a bit of a mixed bag. While earnings beat expectations (earning $4.84 per share on $22.06 billion in revenue versus the expectations of $4.81 a share on $22.02 billion in revenue), the company’s overall earnings per share are down roughly 17% from this same quarter

Today Hitachi Data Systems (HDS) announced that it was expanding its all-flash portfolio with its new Hitachi Flash Storage (HFS) A series family of all-flash arrays (AFA). The HFS A series of AFAs is designed to be a software-defined approach to infrastructure that is accelerated by flash technology. Hitachi believes that this will help customers

Today Maxta announced that it was introducing a new facet to its hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI), Application-Defined Storage. Maxta states that this will allow users to maximize the promise of hyper-convergence by allowing them to optimize their applications. Application-Defined Storage comes with the latest release of the Maxta Storage Platform (MxSP) and MaxDeploy appliances.

Today Actifio released the new version of its front end software, Actifio Global Manager (AGM). This new version of software is intended to make it faster and easier to automate data management, access, and protection across the hybrid cloud. 

Western Digital Corporation has once again run its global survey of CIOs and IT decision makers, this being its second annual. What was found this year is that cost is no longer the major consideration when it comes to data storage purchases. As organizations are mining their data more and more to gain insight, reliability

Today Toshiba America Electronics Components Inc. released their latest very read-intensive enterprise SAS SSD, the PX04SL series. The PX04SL expands on Toshiba’s third generation SAS SSDs. The new SSD series is aimed at high read-intensive application workloads such as data warehousing, web servers, media streaming, and video on demand.

Samsung Electronics has announced they have begun mass producing the industry’s first 4GB DRAM package based on the second-generation High Bandwidth Memory (HBM2) interface.  Designed for HPC, advanced graphics, network systems, and enterprise servers, Samsung indicates that it will boast more than seven times the speed of current DRAM performance limitations, resulting in faster responsiveness

Violin Memory makes a high performing all-flash array, in fact some of the best performance in the industry as we’ve seen with the Windows Array. However since going public in 2013, Violin’s stock has struggled. Starting off at $9 per share the stock has been floating under a dollar the last couple of months just popping