Today FalconStor Software Inc. announced the general availability of the industry's first horizontal, software-defined storage platform for unified data services, FreeStor. In order to celebrate the release, FalconStor’s CEO, Gary Quinn, will ring the closing bell today on the NASDAQ.

VMware Inc. announced the general availability of its Virtual SAN 6.0 health check plug-in. As the name implies, the plug-in addresses the health of the hardware and configuration of VSAN. The plug-in keeps in line with VSAN’s core benefit of keeping things simple as it reactively and proactively alerts users to issues in the VASN including issues

Today Dell Inc. announced several storage offerings aimed at helping businesses cost-effectively adapt and scale their data centers to keep pace with increasing IT demands. Dell address both current and future methods of dealing with the massive growth of data with new entry-level array series, Dell Storage SCv2000 Series, higher performing dense storage arrays, Dell

Google announced a new cloud service today, Google Cloud Bigtable. Cloud Bigtable is a fully managed, high-performance, extremely scalable NoSQL database service offered through the industry-standard, open-source Apache HBase API. The new service is powered by Bigtable, the same database that drives Google Search, Gmail, and Google analytics.

EMC has announced a free “no restrictions” download for non-production use of its ScaleIO software as well as its enhancements planned for the future. EMC ScaleIO is a software-only solution that changes existing server storage into shared block storage in order to help empower IT organizations with flexible and scalable performance and capacity on demand.

Today at Microsoft Unite, Dell Inc. introduced a series of new solutions that are aimed at increasing performance and productivity in Microsoft business environments. Dell is introducing Dell Appliance for Wyse – vWorkspace, a desktop virtualization appliance, Migration Manager for Enterprise Social, to centralizes social media user collaboration, and Dell is announcing that its PowerEdge R930 server is

Samsung has announced the latest additions to their memory cards portfolio, the PRO Plus and EVO Plus lines. The new PRO Plus is designed to handle storing and transferring professional-grade photos and 4K UHD video content created from high-end DSLRs, smartphones, tablets and modern action cameras, while the EVO Plus memory cards are built for

EMC announced the company’s plans to release an open source into the community named Project CoprHD. Based on the ViPR Controller, Project CoprHD is EMC’s first open-source project based on one of its commercial software products. The project will make the code for ViPR Controller (the storage automation and control functionality) open for community-driven development on GitHub

Today at EMC world, EMC Corporation announced that it was expanding its VSPEX Portfolio With EMC VMAX 100K, which they claim is the industry’s leading enterprise data services platform. EMC had announced other updates to VMAX3 earlier this week.