Today Citrix announced the general availability of its Workspace Cloud. We first mentioned the Citrix Workspace Cloud back in May when it was announced. As previously stated, Citrix Workspace Cloud is designed to address the issues that arise from the new devices, apps, and work styles. Now after thousands of customers testing the product is ready for a
Lenovo and SimpliVity have announced a partnership with plans to develop hyperconverged infrastructure solutions based on their combined technologies. SimpliVity’s OmniStack data virtualization platform will now be integrated with Lenovo System x3650 servers via Arrow Electronics, global provider of products, services, and solutions for electronic components and enterprise computing.
The Linux Foundation announced its new effort to define and promote open source software and standards for cloud object storage technologies, the Kinetic Open Storage Project. This project brings together several industry leaders including Cisco, Cleversafe, Dell, Digital Sense, Huawei, NetApp, Open vStorage, Red Hat, Scality, Seagate, SwiftStack, Toshiba and Western Digital.
Today Kaminario announced that the latest version of its K2, v5.5, of its all-flash array. The latest version will cut the price-per-gigabyte in half from its previous version, down to $1/GB. Kaminario is also deploying 3D TLC drives in its new array. Kaminario offers this new system to midrange enterprises and it includes native array-based replication
SwiftStack today announced that companies are seeing cloud-like experiences when they combine SwiftStack Object Storage with private file sync and share applications. SwiftStack states that it is ideally suited for storing unstructured data privately in Enterprise data centers behind corporate firewalls. SwiftStack gives IT the control they need of data that is being stored in
Yesterday at Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco, Intel made a series of announcements around their work on upcoming products, most of which focus on connected devices and the Internet of Things (IoT). Of more interest to us here at StorageReview, is the introduction of Optane Technology based off of Intel’s collaboration with Micron on 3D
Unitrends has made several announcements today including the availability of the Recovery-944S and Recovery-946S, the company’s highest capacity, most advanced physical backup and recovery appliances yet. All appliances include Release 8.2, the latest version of the data protection software that provides enhanced Adaptive Data Deduplication with dedupe acceleration. In addition, it allows the Recovery-944S and
Seagate and Dot Hill Systems have announced a definitive agreement that indicates a wholly-owned indirect subsidiary of Seagate will commence a tender offer for all of the outstanding shares of Dot Hill. This will be an all-cash transaction at $9.75 per share, which totals to roughly $694 million on a fully-diluted equity value basis. Dot
Samsung has announced three new lines of slim and design-centric Flash Drives, the Bar, FIT and DUO. Each form factors are equipped with Samsung’s NAND flash technology and are compatible with both USB 3.0 and 2.0 connections. The new slick looking drives are comprised of a metal-based design with Samsung’s 5-proof technologies as well as
Today Ravello Systems made two announcements around VMware environments running in Amazon Web Services (AWS) and in Google Cloud Platform. Ravello is announcing the general availability of InceptionSX that grants the ability to run the ESXi hypervisor in AWS and Google Cloud. Ravello is also unveiling InfinityDC, which allows companies to spin up an isolated
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