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.

Today ClusterHQ announced that has been working with VMware to integrate its Flocker container data management software with VMware vSphere. The two companies worked together to develop a pluggable storage driver for vSphere, providing portable and persistent shared storage for organizations using Docker containers in conjunction with VMware. This plug-in gives users direct access to

Today at VMworld 2015, Dell Inc. announced several enhanced end-to-end solutions for VMware. These announcements ran the gamut of helping to integrate physical and virtual environments, updated EVO:RAIL infrastructure, and updates to Dell's thin clients. These enhancements add more VMware capabilities to Dell's portfolio while helping customers on the path to virtualized environments and the

Today at VMworld 2015, VMware Inc. revealed a new set of hybrid cloud capabilities for vSphere through a technology preview, Project Skyscraper. Project Skyscraper will enable customers to seamlessly extended their data center to the public cloud or extend the public cloud to their data center. Project Skyscraper enables seamless extension across boundaries with enterprise-level

Maxta has announced an expansion of its MaxDeploy Program, which allows customers to easily order and deploy hyper-converged solutions that run on servers powered by Intel processors. This new expansion will include new MaxDeploy appliances based on Dell and Lenovo server platforms. Maxta recently added new hyper-converged management, which included historical reporting, enhanced policy management,

Today at VMworld 2015, VMware Inc. announced new innovations for its unified hybrid cloud platform. The new innovations include new public cloud services and software-defined solutions aimed at enabling customers to build applications faster, improve IT security, rapidly recover from disasters, and drive meaningful business value.

Today at VMworld 2015, the EMC Federation gave a preview to updates for its Enterprise Hybrid Cloud solution along with a new End-User Computing Solution. The Enterprise Hybrid Cloud will be available through EMC business partners, when they reach “Federation Ready” credentials. The Federation is also previewing the first ever, unified IoT solution.

Samsung has announced the AutoCache v3.0, the company’s first enterprise-class caching software solution. As a collaborative effort with VMware, Samsung indicates that the caching software is set to be one of the first caching solutions used with the new VMware vSphere APIs for IO Filtering, which fully supports write-back caching in virtualized environments. Samsung acquired