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. 

Nutanix has announced a global partnership with SAP, which will allow customers to use Nutanix web-scale infrastructure solutions to run business-critical SAP applications, such as with enterprise resource management, business warehouse, customer relationship management, and more. Announced back in June of this year, the Nutanix Xtreme Computing Platform (XCP) is a hyperconverged infrastructure solution certified for

Google has announced the Beta version of Google Cloud Datalab at this week’s Google Cloud Platform Next event in Paris. The new data exploration solution is a web-based interactive developer tool, which gives users valuable insight from raw data as well as the ability to explore, share, and publish reports in an efficient and budget-friendly

Today Datagres announced a major upgrade to its PerfAccel Analytics and Acceleration solution, PerfAccel 3.0. Datagres states that this makes a major milestone in the evolution of their software-defined data management platform. The latest release aims to redefine the ease of management and the breadth of deployment for server based operational storage intelligence.