Dubbed the largest NAS optimized drive on today’s market, Seagate has announced their 8TB NAS HDD, allowing businesses to use both fewer drives and fewer costly enclosures. As such, the new 8TB drives are specifically built for tower enclosures with one to eight bays for upwards of 64TB in a single eight-bay desktop form factor.
Diablo Technologies Raises Another $19 Million For Its Series C Financing Round
Diablo Technologies has announced that it has secured an additional $19 million in capital for its Series C Financing round, which is led by new investor ICV along with participation from Battery Ventures, BDC Capital, Celtic House, and Hasso Plattner Ventures. Diablo adds that the funding will be used to help expedite customer deployments with
Avere Announces New FXT Edge Filers That Deliver 70% More Data Throughput
Today Avere Systems announced its latest FXT Edge Filers, the FXT 5000 Series. Avere claims that this new Edge Filer series is the most powerful hybrid cloud storage product on the market to date. They further state that businesses of any size will have access to the same technology used by the world’s largest genomic
Atlantis Computing Announces HCI For ROBO & Micro Data Centers
Today Atlantis Computing announced that, along with the support of Dell, it is expanding its hyperconverged appliance product line into the remote offices, branch offices (ROBO) and micro data centers arena. The latest Atlantis HyperScale appliance is the CX-4 a two-node hyperconverged integrated system with compute, all-flash storage, networking and virtualization. All of Atlantis HyperScale
Scality Strengthens Its Partnership With HPE
Building off of the October 2014 announcement of partnership between the companies, today Scality announced a strengthening between itself and Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE). This enhanced partnership is aimed at accelerating the adoption of software-defined object and file storage with enterprises and service providers who are struggling to overcome the problems of data storage at massive
Quantum Q-Cloud Protect Now Available In The Amazon Marketplace
Today Quantum Corp. announced that its virtual deduplication appliance, Q-Cloud, is now available as a cloud-based appliance running on top of the Amazon Web Services (AWS) infrastructure. Companies can use Q-Cloud with Quantum DXi systems giving them a hybrid-cloud backup and disaster recovery (DR) solution.
Citrix Makes XenApp/XenDesktop & Workspace Cloud Announcements
Citrix has made several announcements at the company’s Summit, all of which are focused on the their XenApp/XenDesktop and Workspace Cloud product lines, offering new features and packages for large enterprises and channel partners.
Citrix Acquires Comtrade Management Packs SCOM-user Customers
Comtrade System Software & Tools (Comtrade) has announced that Citrix has acquired the company's System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) management packs for Citrix users. Earlier today, Citrix agreed to sell their CloudPlatform and CloudPortal Business Manager product lines to Accelerite.
Embattled Violin Responds To Investors
Violin, which trades under the symbol VMEM, has been largely under fire since it went public in September, 2013 at $9 per share. Shortly after the company found itself battling a potential class action lawsuit over disclosure of sales data regarding government contracts that were cancelled. Things haven't improved for the company as investor Clinton Group
Dell Introduces Two Additions To Its Cloud Client-Computing Portfolio
Today at the Citrix Summit in Las Vegas, Dell introduced two additions to its cloud client-computing portfolio aimed at optimizing communication for thin client users and for more cost-effective and efficient deployments of Citrix environments. Dell is releasing the latest version of its thin client software, Wyse ThinOS 8.2 that will now offer Lync 2010, Lync




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