WD has announced the availability of the My Book Pro storage device, which is designed to offer pro users an efficient way to manage large amounts of digital content with up to 435MB/s transfer rates.  Capacity options include 6TB, 8TB, 10TB and 12TB models.

Toshiba has announced four new additions to their portfolio of performance HDDs, the X300, P300, E300, and L200 series. The new hard disk drives are built to meet consumers’ most intense storage needs, which include three desktop models and one mobile option. The new 3.5-inch desktop internal HDDs include the Toshiba X300 Series, built for

Toshiba has announced two new additions to their internal storage portfolio, the Toshiba Q300 Pro Series SSDs, which are built for gaming and creative applications with high-end demand for performance and reliability, and the Toshiba Q300 Series SSDs, which provide consumers looking to upgrade their system with a balance of high performance and value. Both

Pivot3 has recently announced collaboration with a few vendors, bringing its hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI) to vendors such as Dell, Amulet Hotkey, and Tracewell. Pivot3 is teaming with Dell to deliver HCI on PowerEdge FX2 servers, giving high performance on extremely dense form factors. With Amulet Hotkey, Pivot3 is bringing its HCI to Amulet Hotkey’s workstation

Today Panzura announced that its Cloud Controllers are now available on VMware vCloud Air, transforming vCloud Air Object Storage into a globally distributed file system. Panzura states that this will enable vCloud Air to appear like it is just another room of the corporate datacenter. Panzura has undergone technical validation within the vCloud Air environment

Super Micro Computer, Inc. is collaborating with Nexenta and HGST to develop a turnkey scale-up high performance unified block and file storage solution optimized for high performance data-centric environments. The new solution is a combination of Supermicro’s 2U Ultra SuperServer integrated with Nexenta’s NexentaStor and featuring SSDs from HGST (Ultrastar SSD800MH.B and Ultrastar SSD1600MM). This makes the

Today SanDisk Corporation and Nexenta announced that they are working together to release the industry’s first open software-defined storage (OpenSDS) All-Falsh Array (AFA) through a combination of SanDisk’s InfiniFlash IF100 system and Nexenta’s NexentaStor. This joint solution will provide data center customers a pre-tested, full-featured, cost-effective, high-performance system for addressing today’s increasing Big Data challenges.

Cumulus Networks has announced that their Open Networking operating system, Cumulus Linux, will power new hyper-converged infrastructure solutions from Dell and QCT (Quanta Cloud Technology) based on VMware EVO SDDC. To date, more than 80 hardware provides, resellers, and distributors, (including Dell and HP) have partnered with Cumulus Networks to create networking solutions using Cumulus Linux

There have been a lot of announcements at VMworld this year. A major announcement was the upcoming release of VSAN 6.1, with its new features such as Stretched Cluster, Virtual SAN for ROBO, Replication with vSphere Replication, and so on. Another major announcement is a limited beta for future VSAN releases in order to test upcoming technology. The