Unitrends has made several announcements today including the availability of the Recovery-944S and Recovery-946S, the company’s highest capacity, most advanced physical backup and recovery appliances yet. All appliances include Release 8.2, the latest version of the data protection software that provides enhanced Adaptive Data Deduplication with dedupe acceleration. In addition, it allows the Recovery-944S and
Seagate and Dot Hill Systems have announced a definitive agreement that indicates a wholly-owned indirect subsidiary of Seagate will commence a tender offer for all of the outstanding shares of Dot Hill. This will be an all-cash transaction at $9.75 per share, which totals to roughly $694 million on a fully-diluted equity value basis. Dot
Samsung has announced three new lines of slim and design-centric Flash Drives, the Bar, FIT and DUO. Each form factors are equipped with Samsung’s NAND flash technology and are compatible with both USB 3.0 and 2.0 connections. The new slick looking drives are comprised of a metal-based design with Samsung’s 5-proof technologies as well as
Today Ravello Systems made two announcements around VMware environments running in Amazon Web Services (AWS) and in Google Cloud Platform. Ravello is announcing the general availability of InceptionSX that grants the ability to run the ESXi hypervisor in AWS and Google Cloud. Ravello is also unveiling InfinityDC, which allows companies to spin up an isolated
Today Coho Data announced that it is integrating with Docker containers and microservice orchestration support. This integration will allow third-party applications to run within Coho’s customers’ storage systems. Coho’s new container-converged storage system or Warpconvergence, bridges the gap between old and new datacenter infrastructures.
Today Rubrik introduced a new hybrid cloud appliance, the r348, along with the latest version of its Converged Data Management platform, version 2.0. The r348 is designed for larger environments and ones where data retention is required for longer times. The r348 has a logical capacity of over 300TB per 2U space and can scale
Today VMware released a new vRealize Operations Management Pack that support VSAN 6.0, version 6.0.2. The latest management pack introduces a new set of dashboards that gives users a centralized location that provides global visibility into all aspects of VSAN 6.0.
WD has announced the addition of 5TB and 6TB capacities to its WD Red Pro line of hard drives, which are designed for NAS systems equipped up to 16 drive bays and businesses with more expansive storage requirements than the standard WD Red drives. We previously reviewed the WD Red Pro 4TB model.
Today Scality announced that it working with Dell to create new Software-Defined Storage (SDS) solutions that run on Dell’s hardware using Scality’s RING software. This collaboration means that Dell will now offer its PowerEdge Server, storage, and networking solutions based on RING software. This partnership gives enterprises all the benefits of Scality’s RING software (100% reliable,
Today StorTrends, the data storage division of American Megatrends, Inc. (AMI) announced that is has been granted three patents that set a high standard of how companies can meet requirements of performance-intensive applications and do so at a cost-effective price. The three patents focus on data deduplication (8,954,339), data migration (8,812,811), and multi-protocol data transfers
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