Avago Technologies has announced it is acquiring publicly traded Emulex for $8/share, in an all cash transaction topping $606 million. Avago has been busy the last year or so, buying LSI in December 2013 for $6.6 billion, before selling off LSI's storage business to Seagate in May of last year for $450 million. The combination
Connected Data has announced the Transporter 15 and 30, two new private cloud file sync and share appliances designed to deliver critical business-class file sharing features, performance and capacity to small businesses, departments and remote offices. Both appliances help preserve the privacy and control of business data all the while offering users with the same benefits and experience
SolarWinds has announced new and enhanced product offerings designed to help IT ensure optimal application performance by monitoring the complete application stack (AppStack) through a single pane of glass. Enhancements include the new Storage Resource Monitor (SRM) and significant updates to Server & Application Monitor (SAM) as well as Virtualization Manager and Web Performance Monitor (WPM), which
Dell today published details for three new web-scale converged storage appliances that will be joining the company’s XC Series. The new appliances are built with 13G PowerEdge servers as the foundation and are equipped to handle applications such as virtual desktop infrastructure, private cloud storage, and big data. The new appliances can be configured with
Scale Computing has announced the release of HC3 HyperCore Version 6.0, which adds built-in VM level remote replication as well as a new, streamlined user interface to make its HC3 platform cater more towards small- and medium-sized businesses and enterprise departments looking to overcome the obstacles of implementing virtualization, and fast recovery from IT disasters. Scale
EMC has released a new Plug-in for Oracle Enterprise Manager (OEM) 12c. Following their announcement of deeper integration with OEM 12c, the latest version of the Plug-in is designed to work with a broad range of EMC storage systems such as VMAX, VMAX 3, VNX Block, VNX File, and XtremIO. The previous versions of the plug-in were specific to
Supermicro will be showing off its latest portfolio of Embedded Building Block Solutions this week at Embedded World in Nürnberg, Germany. During this event, Supermicro will focus on its new Internet of Things (IoT) Gateway System (SYS-E100-8Q), which adds to Supermicro’s Embedded solutions ecosystem with an ultra low-power Edge-to-Cloud mesh network device powered by a
Toshiba has made a technology advancement in the areal density of their platters used in 2.5" client hard drives. Toshiba has managed to hit one terabit per square inch (1Tbit/in2) which translates to 750GB per drive platter. In a four-platter 15mm platform, that's 3TB per drive, which is a 40% boost over Toshiba's highest capacity drive
Today NetApp announced several software updates and solutions for hybrid cloud deployments aimed at improving backup and recovery times. NetApp's new software and solutions come with integration for Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3).
HGST G-Technology has announced the latest versions of its G-RAID with removable drives solution. The new G-RAID solutions come with two connectivity options: there is the G-RAID with Thunderbolt 2 and USB 3.0 and the G-RAID with USB 3.0 only.
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