Atlantis Computing announced today that it has launched the first turn-key hyper-converged appliance to deliver all-flash performance, Atlantis HyperScale. Atlantis also claims that its appliance will deliver this performance at 50-90% lower cost than other hyper-converged appliances.

Today at EMC world 2015, EMC Corporation announced that they have broken the $25,000 price barrier for unified all-flash arrays with the VNXe3200. This is the first time customers can leverage EMC flash technology at such a low price.

Intel has announced the availability of the Intel SSD Data Center S3510 Series, expanding on their storage offerings in the Intel SSD Data Center Family as well as to meet the demands for high-performance, high-capacity data stores in the data center. The Intel SSD DC S3510 Series is built to provide cost and power advantages over

HP has announced the mt245 Mobile Thin Client, designed for easy and flexible cloud computing on-the-go. This new mobile thin client provides users with a pro-class user feature-set as well as critical management software; all at an affordable price.

HGST, a Western Digital company, has hit a few milestones recently with their enterprise drives. They ship the largest capacity non-SMR drive, the Ultrastar He8 8TB. Of their helium drives, they have deployed over a million so far. Recently their Ultrastar Helium HDDs achieved a field reliability of 2.5 million hours mean time between failures (MTBF), and on

Super Micro Computer Inc. released a new extreme-density sever platform, MicroBlade. These new solutions are aimed at hyper-scale data center, cloud, web hosting environments and video streaming, VDI, high performance video/graphics applications. SuperMicro’s MicroBlade also enables VLP DDR4 16/32GB RDIMM, at the cost of regular DIMM, to increase energy efficiency and cooling. SuperMicro claims that

EMC has announced major updates to its data protection portfolio with new products that provide data protection in the cloud, to the cloud, and in the data center. EMC believes that this will allow customers to significantly reduce cost and complexity all the while protecting their data wherever it may be.

Today VCE unveiled the industry’s first family of hyper-converged RackScale systems, the VCE VxRack system. VxRack enable enterprises and service providers the ability to simplify deployment of next generation scale out mobile, cloud, and distributed Tier 2 applications. VCE claims that customers can start from dozens of servers and scale to thousands, with petabytes of

Today at EMC World, EMC Corporation unveiled the latest version of its high-performance all-flash-array (AFA) software, XtremIO 4.0. This is a free, non-disruptive upgrade for customers already using XtremIO 3.X arrays. EMC is also announcing new 40TB X-Brick building blocks. XtremIO 4.0 now supports these larger AFA configurations (up to eight 40TB X-Bricks).