Actifio has commissioned IDC to research on how enterprises control their critical data, looking at copy data. The research found that two-thirds of companies failed to meet best practice standards for data control. With this study, Actifio is also announcing that it has seen dramatic growth in the number of its enterprise customers, as Actifio’s

In yet another integration story this month, Seagate announced today that it would now completely and without restriction integrate the Samsung hard drive into Seagate. Similar to the decision to allow WD to fully integrate HGST, China's Ministry of Commerce (MOFCOM) announced its decision to allow Samsung HDD business to be integrated into Seagate restriction

Intel has announced that it may invest up to $5.5 Billion to manufacture memory chips in China. The money will be spent on converting Intel’s first Chinese facility, located in Dalian, to start producing 3-D NAND, versus the semiconductors that are currently produced there. Initially Intel planned on keeping the factory behind the production of

Toshiba America Electronic Components, Inc. announced a new family of NAND flash memory products for embedded applications, Toshiba’s Serial Interface NAND.  The Serial Interface NAND family is compatible with Serial Peripheral Interface (SPI), and has a wide range of use-cases including flat screen TVs, printers, wearable devices, and robots. The Serial Interface NAND family consists

Continuing on with the October theme of acquisitions, today SolarWinds announced that the private equity firms Silver Lake Partners and Thoma Bravo would acquire it. The deal is valued at $4.5 billion. The two firms state that they will pay shareholders $60.10 which is 44% over its closing price on October 8th.

Today at Dell World 2015, Dell Inc. announced that it has been working with Microsoft to release a new hybrid cloud solution. This expansion of Dell’s cloud portfolio is all about making the path to cloud more attractive to customers by tackling the barriers that make them hesitate. On top of that, Dell now has

EMC Corporation and VMware Inc. announced that they would be combining their respective cloud capabilities (including the existing Virtustream cloud offerings) to form a new cloud services business under the Virtustream brand. The new Virtustream cloud services will be jointly owned 50:50 by both VMware and EMC and the current CEO of Virtustream, Rodney Rodgers,

October is the month for major acquisitions apparently. Last week Dell acquired EMC for $67 billion in what amounted to the largest tech merger in history, or the largest so far. In slightly smaller announcements, Imation acquired Connected data and Western Digital was granted permission to further integrate HGST into WD. Today marks the second major acquisition announcement of the

Today at Dell World in Austin, Dell Inc. introduced several new solutions and services aimed at lowering costs and downtime in large-scale datacenters. These new solutions and services run the gamut from servers to arrays to hyperconverged to software. All of these announced solutions will help customers to easily scale and adapt to their infrastructures