VMware has unveiled VMware vSphere Integrated Containers and VMware Photon Platform, two new technology previews that enable enterprise IT operations teams to deliver containers in production on-premises and on VMware’s public cloud, VMware vCloud Air.

HP has announced new solutions focused on helping businesses to leverage their VMware environments through faster time to implementation and greater return on investment.  These new products and services are optimized for VMware vSphere, including new hyper-converged and all-flash storage systems announced earlier this month.

Today at VMworld 2015, VMware Inc. announced the latest release of its extremely popular Virtual San solution, VSAN 6.1. This marks the third release of VSAN. This release will add even greater availability and management abilities. 6.1 will focus on delivering high performance and increased scale to provide enterprise-class storage for virtualized workloads, including Tier-1

DataCore Software will be demonstrating its hyper-converged ‘less is more’ architecture at VMworld 2015. As such, DataCore indicates that VMware customers and partners will experience how the company’s adaptive parallel I/O is leveraging today’s multi-core processing systems to eliminate the major bottleneck holding back the IT industry – I/O performance.

Citrix has unveiled a free cloud-based service to migrate VMware Horizon View virtual app and desktop deployments to XenApp and XenDesktop specifically for VMware customers looking to improve their app and desktop experience, gain greater infrastructure flexibility, and simplify end user computing management. With this new service powered by Citrix Lifecycle Management, it allows administrators

NETGEAR has introduced the ProSAFE 28-port 10-Gigabit Smart Managed Switch (XS728T), the industry's first 28-port (24 copper, 4 SFP+) 10-Gigabit Smart Managed Switch purposely designed for SMBs with 10GBASE-T connectivity and Advanced L2+/Layer 3 Lite features. Backed by NETGEAR’s Lifetime Hardware Warranty and customer support coverage, the new XS728T provides 10-Gigabit bandwidth at an affordable

SanDisk has announced FlashSoft software for VMware vSphere 6 as a virtual data service through integration with VMware vSphere APIs for IO Filtering (VAIO). SanDisk indicates that the latest update of FlashSoft provides users with a substantial advancement in platform integration, usability and performance, all the while improving customer confidence in host-level storage acceleration. In

Unitrends has announced that Unitrends Free now supports Free VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi). The virtual appliance provides enterprise-class backup and recovery capabilities for free ESXi environments and offers protection for both physical Windows and virtual systems for up to 1TB of data. With this announcement, Unitrends Free now gives customers the ability to install into

Today Primary Data announced that its storage-agnostic data virtualization platform, DataSphere will be designed to serve as a Universal VMware vSphere Storage APIs for Storage Awareness (VASA) storage provider for VMware vSphere Virtual Volumes. DataSphere will also enable existing storage to become VMware VASA-compliant by abstracting the storage into a global dataspace through data virtualization.