Druva has announced a new strategic alliance with Microsoft Azure that expands its presence into Microsoft’s public cloud and infrastructure platform.  This new alliance is beneficial to Druva as it gives their customers more flexibility giving them more choice in infrastructure vendor and the options to better meet data storage, privacy, and security needs. The

SUSE made a few announcements recently including the general availability of SUSE Enterprise Storage 2, its collaboration with several partners to bring SUSE Enterprise Storage to 64-bit ARM powered devices, and that Lars Marowsky-Brée will serve as SUSE’s initial representative on the recently announced Ceph Advisory Board. SUSE Enterprise Storage 2 is the new version of SUSE’s

Today IBM announced enhancements and innovations to its software-defined storage (SDS) line, IBM Spectrum Storage. These new innovations will improve storage management, data security and reduce data costs as they deploy new technology to support cognitive and other data-driven applications across hybrid cloud environments.

Today Lenovo and Nutanix announced a partnership centered on making Lenovo hyperconverged appliances powered by Nutanix software. Both companies are committed to reducing complexity and lower costs by delivering hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) to enterprises. This HCI will enable IT to focus on their business’s applications and services while offering a compelling alternative to public cloud services.

Intel has unveiled a new Intel IoT Platform reference architecture and new hardware and software products as part of their comprehensive portfolio of solutions for the Internet of Things (IoT) marketplace. As such, the new platform consists of two reference architectures as well as products from Intel and its ecosystem, indicating that it will address

Today CloudByte announced that it is extending its appliance portfolio with its new all-flash array (AFA) the ESA-1000. The new AFA is a combination of CloudByte’s containerized software-defined storage solution, ElastiStor, and SanDisk’s AFA InfiniFlash. The combination of the two technologies will give the ESA-1000 2PB of effective capacity and it will be able to

CloudPhysics has released Exploration Mode, allowing administrators to identify the root causes of server issues by interactively revealing resource consumption patterns and environment changes over time. Exploration Mode is available as part of its analytics solution for VMware users.

Today Sphere 3D Corp announced that it has joined the Microsoft Enterprise Cloud Alliance Program. As part of the program Sphere 3D will utilize Microsoft Azure cloud computing platform to deliver virtual application, virtual desktop, and enterprise storage solutions.

Today Crucial announced that its new consumer SSD, the BX200. The drive is aimed at consumers and SMB that are looking for an affordable way to increase performance, see faster boot times, and load applications faster. The BX200 will be replacing the BX100 we previously reviewed. In our review we found that, though the BX100 was