Pivot3 announced that it would be bringing its hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI) technology to VMware vSphere 6. The combination of the two technologies can accelerate time to value for organizations that utilize it. Solutions will be deployed faster, at lower costs, without the need for specialized expertise and increased CPU power to run advanced VMware vSphere

FalconStor Softwre Inc. and Kaminario announced that they will be leveraging FreeStor in the K2 All-Flash Array v5.5. FreeStor, an intelligent software defined platform, will enhance the K2 by providing enterprise-class data migration and multi storage vendor replication features that quickly and efficiently meet the stringent customer requirements of today’s complex datacenter ecosystems.

At VMworld Europe 2015, Atlantis Computing introduced its new Atlantis USX 3.1 platform with a new feature called Stretched Cluster. Atlantis states that this new platform can reduce business continuity costs by half. The new Stretched Cluster feature enables zero RPO and RTO between multiple data centers while providing organizations with a highly efficient hyper-converged

This year at the Spectra Summit in beautiful Boulder, Colorado, Spectra Logic unveiled its latest disk-based product, the ArcticBlue. ArcticBlue leverages both Spectra’s BlackPearl deep storage gateway system and SMR technology to deliver the first nearline object storage that responds like disk storage with the longevity of tape. The Artic Blue can deliver up to 6.1PB

Hot on the heals of the biggest tech merger of all time, reports surfaced this week that SanDisk is shopping itself, looking for a buyer in perhaps WD or Micron. SanDisk has been on the other side of the coin for the last few years, buying up Flashsoft, Pliant, Fusion-io and Smart Storage to name a few. SanDisk has also launched their own "JBOF"

Imation has made a few major announcements concerning the structure of their company, including the immediate appointment of Bob Fernander as Interim CEO. Imation also announced the equity acquisition of Connected Data, which has been valued at roughly $7.5 million during the closing. Imation has stated that it intends to complete the transaction through a short-form

Today OCZ Storage Solutions, a Toshiba Group company announced its Saber 1000 series will now have Host Managed SSD (HMS) technology. As we previously spoke about in our second piece on SMR drives, Host Managed technology allows the host to manage certain aspects of the drives in order to boost performance and help give the drives a more

Today Carbonite, Inc. announced that it has enhanced its portfolio of both hardware and software disaster recovery (DR) solutions. Carbonite is also releasing five new backup appliances (ranging up to 8TB in capacity) and the latest version of Carbonite Server Backup – Carbonite Server Advanced. Carbonite offers SMBs lots of flexibility in DR with multiple

Today IBM announced the launch of its new enterprise hybrid storage family, the IBM DS8880 family. This new family of next generation of storage is designed to accelerate business critical applications and real-time data insights for clients requiring increased performance, data protection and uncompromised, nonstop availability.