I recently had the chance to speak with Carbonite about a datacenter migration effort they undertook in late 2014. It’s important to understand that a datacenter migration is about more than the movement of software or data, but a true relocation effort for every of a datacenter to a new physical location. Given the recent

Avere Systems announced that its Virtual FXT Edge filers are generally available on Google Cloud Platform. The collaboration between the two companies enables customers with compute heavy workloads and large data sets to easily move to Google Cloud Platform. Customers will also be able to keep data on existing on-premises infrastructure and won’t have to make any

StorageReview has been the largest outlet independently reviewing enterprise IT for many years. For the first time we have to tell the story of how a review in progress came to an end without being published. There have been several instances where we were asked to not post a review by a vendor before, but the

Diablo Technologies has announced Memory1, the industry’s first all-flash server system memory technology designed to vastly improve datacenter performance and economics. The technology is quoted with four times the capacity of the largest DRAM modules, which allows enterprises a lot more agility and power all on fewer servers. Diablo indicates that this will result up to

Today Tintri Inc. announced that they have raised an additional $125 million in series F funding, bringing their total capital raised up to $260 million. This latest series of funding, series F, was lead by Silver Lake Kraftwerk along with existing investors Insight Venture Partners, Lightspeed Ventures, Menlo Ventures, and NEA. Tintri plans on using

Seagate Technology has announced their new 2TB Game Drive for Xbox at Gamescom 2015 in collaboration with Microsoft as a strategic marketing relationship. This new external drive works as add-on storage for both the Xbox One and Xbox 360 consoles while sporting the same color scheme.

Today HP announced a new addition to its ConvergedSystem line, HP ConvergedSystem 250-HC StoreVirtual (CS 250). Like the HP ConvergedSystem 200-HC StoreVirtual, the CS 250 is a hyper-converged appliance that offers highly available virtual server and storage infrastructure. HP claims that CS 250 can be configured in minutes and is almost half the price of its

In collaboration with 20th Century Fox, WD has announced the new My Passport Cinema 4K Ultra HD (UHD) movie storage solution, specifically designed to organize and store high-definition digital movies and TV shows on VIDITY-enabled devices such as Samsung SUHD TVs. Compatible content also includes new releases in full 4K UHD resolution with high dynamic

Today Virtual Instruments announced that they have released the latest update to its Infrastructure Performance Management software, VirutalWisdom 4.3. The latest version of their software offers its services up to an even wider range of virtualized environments including Microsoft Hyper-V and IBM PowerVM. 4.3 also comes with enhancements in histograms, application profiling, and visibility into