Today QNAP Systems, Inc. announced that is has released two new enterprise-class rackmount NAS devices, the TVS-ECx80U-SAS R2 and TS-ECx80U R2 NAS series. These new devices are updates to the previous TVS-ECx80U-SAS/TS-ECx80U series, now with two built-in SFP+ based 10GbE ports but still the same price as the previous series.

Today the LTO Program Technology Provider Companies (TPCs) (including Hewlett Packard Enterprise, IBM, and Quantum) released shipment data and a new report detailing tape media shipments. The data shows that 76,000PB of compressed capacity shipped in 2015 (up 17.8% from the previous year). The new report being launched shows both 2015 and year-over-year generational data. LTO

Today QNAP Inc. launched its new double server, the TDS-16489U. This new server leverages dual Intel Xeon E5 processors and integrates an application server and storage server into one chassis. The new double server is designed to tackle Big Data Computing and to assist enterprises in mission-critical tasks as a one-device solution for applications, storage

Today Seagate Technology and Los Alamos National Laboratory (Los Alamos) announced that they were jointly working on a new archive storage tier for supercomputing data. The two companies are working together to find a way to store the massive amounts of data that are being generated in a way that saves power and is easy

Google has announced that its Docker container orchestration system, Kubernetes, has hit its 1.2 release. This release is aimed at larger organizations building distributed systems, providing performance upgrades as well as easier deployment and management. Kubernetes has had over 680 unique contributors so far, and 1.2 marks its largest release to date.

Today Druva announced that it is expanding its data protection with for its Druva inSync to now support end-user data sources Box, Google Apps for Work (Google Drive, Google Docs and Gmail) and Office 365 (Exchange Online). With the new support of these cloud applications Druva has expanded its data protection enabling enterprises to have

Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) has announced the Hyper Converged 380 (HC 380), the company’s a new all-in-one compute, software-defined storage and intelligent virtualization appliance specifically designed to help mid-sized and remote office branch office enterprises deploy VMs within a matter of minutes.

DataDirect Networks (DDN) has announced the newest product in the DDN GRIDScaler portfolio, the GS14K, which is touted by the company as industry’s fastest and most flexible scale-out NAS solution. The GS14K is built to deliver the speed and scale required by data intensive environments; it will accelerate analytics, increase reliability and integrate into modern workflows such

Phil Brace is president for the Cloud Systems and Silicon Group organizations within Seagate. Broadly, this includes the full breadth of enterprise storage systems and services at Seagate including flash, and storage solutions for OEM and cloud customers. In today's podcast we talk with Phil about what Seagate has learned from their acquisitions of Xyratex, LSI flash assets