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Dell Announces Two New Integrated Backup And Recovery Appliances

Today Dell Software announced two new additions to its DL series backup and recovery appliances, the DL4300 and the DL1000 1TB. The new offerings are a combination of Dell’s PowerEdge Servers and its AppAssure data protection software. The new appliances give small and midsized companies easy-to-deploy, turnkey data protection solutions.

Enterprise  ◇  Software

Nexenta Announces General Availability of NexentaEdge

Today Nexenta announced the general availability of its hyper-scale scale-out object storage management software, NexentaEdge. NexentaEdge is the first and only software-only scale out storage solution that delivers inline deduplication and compression. Nexenta will be demonstrating this new software May 19, at the OpenStack Summit in Vancouver.

Enterprise  ◇  Enterprise Storage  ◇  HDD

Toshiba Announces Key Value-Based Technology For Object Storage

Today at the OpenStack Summit in Vancouver, Toshiba America Electronic Components, Inc. announced two new key value-based technologies that are geared for object storage, big data analytics, virtualization, and for active archival. These new technologies have the benefits of high capacity and high performance scale-out object storage and maximize uptime while reducing the overall mean

Enterprise  ◇  Software

Google Lowers Pricing And Introduces New VMs

Google announced today that it was lowering pricing on Google Compute Engine Instance types. Google states that it is already 40% less expensive than other cloud providers on many workloads. Google is also introducing a new class of preemptible virtual machines. These new VMs will deliver short-term capacity for low costs.

Maxta Announces New Hyper-Converged Management

Today Maxta announced its aim to simplify hyper-converged management across virtualization technologies with MxInsight and MxCloudConnect. These new offerings combined with Maxta’s enterprise-class data services, will, as Maxta claims, “close the storage management gap eliminating the need for complex and costly storage arrays.” Maxta is also announcing support for the latest OpenStack release, Kilo.

Enterprise  ◇  Software

Axcient Unveils Direct To Cloud RaaS For Laptops & Desktops

Axcient announced that it is extending its Recovery as a Service (RaaS) to laptops and desktops through its new offering, Direct To Cloud. This new offering allows organizations to replicate their entire physical and virtual servers to the cloud without a local appliance.

Consumer  ◇  Memory Card  ◇  Portable Storage

Toshiba Releases New SD Cards And Flash Drives

Today Toshiba America Information Systems, Inc. announced four new flash storage products. Toshiba’s Digital Products Division has released two new SD cards, Toshiba EXCERIA Pro SD Memory Card and Toshiba EXCERIA microSD Memory Card, and two new flash drives TransMemory U362 Retractable Flash Drive and the TransMemory Mini U201 USB Flash Drive.

Enterprise  ◇  Server

QLogic and Cavium Deliver Accelerated Performance For Enterprise & Cloud Applications

QLogic Inc. is collaborating with Cavium Inc. to develop a joint solution aimed at accelerating performance enterprise storage, cloud storage, and Big Data storage applications. The solution is a combination of QLogic’s low latency 25Gb Ethernet (25GbE) RDMA-enabled NICs (RNICs) and Cavium’s high-performance 48 core ThunderX processors. Not only will customers see accelerate performance in bid data

Enterprise  ◇  Power Management

Eaton Adds Metered Outlet Models To ePDU G3 Portfolio

Toady Eaton Corporation Plc announced that its third generation ePDU platform has metered outlet power measurement capabilities. IT and data center managers will now have the ability to monitor and measure factors such as voltage, current and power consumption enabling them to lower power consumption.

Enterprise  ◇  Software

Dell Unveils VDI Solutions for Citrix Environments

Dell Inc. announced new solutions in its desktop virtualization portfolio that are geared to work well in Citrix Environments. These new offerings include the Dell Appliance for Wyse – Citrix, Dell Wyse Device Manager (WDM) 5.5 and a new release of Foglight for Virtualization for application and infrastructure monitoring.