Today Egnyte announced that it was awarded a patent from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) for a system and method of implementing an object storage infrastructure for cloud-based services. The patent number is U.S. patent 9135269 B2. This technology is the foundation of the company’s Egnyte Object Store (EOS).

Skyworks Solutions Inc. has announced a definitive agreement to acquire PMC-Sierra, Inc. Skyworks will pay $10.50 per share to shareholders in an all-cash transaction that is estimated to be valued at $2 billion. Skyworks will fund the transaction with cash on had from the two companies and with new, fully committed debt financing. After completing

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has demonstrated their Amazon Snowball at the 2015 AWS re:Invent conference in Las Vegas. Specced at a hefty 45 pounds, this piece of hardware can store upwards of 50TB of data that can be physically shipped to AWS in order to be stored in the cloud. This is an important announcement

Citrix announced today the first new release of Melio since Citrix acquired Sanbolic in January 2015. Melio is Citrix data and storage virtualization software. Melio 6 is optimized for Citrix workloads and is aimed at cutting costs and reducing management complexity for enterprises.

Yesterday, Pure Storage announced the pricing of its Initial Public Offering (IPO) at $17 a share for 25 million shares. We first mentioned Pure filing for its IPO in August. This was immediately met with criticism surrounding how Pure was reporting (or failing to acknowledge errors in) its sales data, prompting Gartner to apologize over their reporting.

Today CTERA Networks announced that it will be supporting Amazon Web Services’ (AWS) recently announced Amazon Simple Storage Service Standard-Infrequent Access (Amazon S3 Standard-IA). Earlier this week, Veritas also announced support for this new storage service. CTERA’s platform integrated with S3 Standard-IA enables companies to “bring their own” virtual private cloud storage to power several file

Veritas Technologies LLC announced that it has upgraded its enterprise-class data protection solution, NetBackup, to version 7.7.1. This latest upgrade fully supports Amazon Simple Storage Service Standard-Infrequent Access (Amazon S3 Standard-IA). This upgrade gives Veritas customers an expanded choice for backup and recovery within Amazon Web Services (AWS).

Today Synology America Corp. announced that it will be making several changes in the coming year. The demands of both personal and professional technology are only going up and Synology is making changes to meet these demands. These changes include a new OS, DiskStation Manager (DSM) 6.0, new advanced NAS products, apps for wearable devices

Yesterday we blasted DCIG for their inept attempt to provide a buyer's guide for all flash arrays. As it turns out, the report is worse than expected. Upon our post the author, Ken Clipperton, took to Twitter to defend the DCIG stance. Since then, the situation has devolved further, with multiple vendors pointing out that the report