Today at the Nutanix .NEXT event, Dell Inc. announced that it would be introducing new Dell XC Web-Scale Converged Appliances and features. Dell and Nutanix have been working closely together to accelerate their joint product development program and adding new hyper-converged applications to their portfolio. This is the first major update since February this year.

Today at the .NEXT conference, Nutanix unveiled its Xtreme Computing Platform (XCP) that Nutanix said will deliver what it is calling invisible infrastructure. XCP is comprised of two different product families, Nutanix Acropolis and Nutanix Prism. These two product families allow XCP to extend hyper-converged solutions that enable application independence from infrastructure with an advanced

HGST has launched a new 10TB enterprise hard drive that leverages both their helium sealed-drive technology and shingled magnetic recording (SMR) to deliver a new storage solution designed specifically for active archive applications. The HGST Ultrastar Ha10 SMR HDD, as it's called, leverages host-managed SMR which enables the deepest of integrations with solutions providers who control their own

VMware announced today that it is updating its EVO:RAIL to offer more choice and customization for Customers. Since it was first announced VMware EVO: RAIL has partnered with several companies including HP, Supermicro & Nexenta, Dell, NetApp, Hitachi, and EMC. VMware has listened to customers and partner feedback to bring even more choice and flexibility to EVO:RAIL.

Recently Coho Data released the latest version of the software that powers its arrays, DataStreams 2.4. The latest version applies to all of Coho’s hardware and the company states that users will see no downtime during the upgrade. Once users click on the upgrade everything else is automated.

At HP Discover, HP announced a new initiative to build a robust ecosystem that will support its vision for the future of enterprise infrastructure. HP is calling this new infrastructure Composable.

HP has announced that DreamWorks Animation has selected HP to automate its IT infrastructure. HP plans to achieve this automation through deploying its HP Datacenter Care – Infrastructure Automation. This deployment will enable DreamWorks to manage its infrastructure as code, which in turn will enable them to continuously deliver applications and services more quickly and

The Ethernet Alliance released the details of its recent Ethernet Alliance-hosted IEEE 802.1 / IEEE 802.3 Joint Interim Meeting. This is the fourth annual session, and the alliance states that a remarkable amount of progress was made in the development of solutions to address different application spaces resulting from the growing diversification of Ethernet.

Today at Computex, Micron Technology Inc. announced its new Triple-Level-Cell (TLC) NAND built on its 16nm process. This new TLC NAND adds to Micron growing portfolio of flash storage devices. The new NAND will set a balance between cost and performance for consumer flash products such as Consumer SSDs and USB flash drives.