Citrix has announced XenServer 6.5, their newest release of the company’s commercial virtualization platform based on the open-source Xen Project hypervisor. With the update, XenServer now offers a full 64-bit kernel architecture, which allows customers to leverage the latest hardware and OS platforms, and supports enterprise-grade networking, storage and workload management.
Netlist Wins Major Legal Victory Against Diablo Technologies Pertaining to ULLtraDIMM SSD Case
Netlist has announced that the United States District Court for the Northern District of California granted Netlist's Motion for Preliminary Injunction against Diablo Technologies for controller chips used by SanDisk in its high-speed ULLtraDIMM SSD product line. As a result, this means that Diablo and SanDisk will be banned from manufacturing and selling the controller
CommVault Announces Backup Appliance With NetApp
Today CommVault announced the availability of the CommVault Backup Appliance with NetApp. The appliance is a combination of Simpana software with NetApp's E-Series storage in a purpose-built, pre-configured data protection solution. This solution furthers the partnership between the two companies that started with the development of NetApp SnapProtect.
Dell Announces Worldwide Availability Of The $25K All-Flash SC4020 Array
Today Dell announced that their $25,000 all-flash SC4020 Array is now available worldwide. As we previously mentioned, though the SC4020 isn't new, this new price point of an All-Flash Array (AFA) not only gives Dell a major advantage over other vendors, but it gives more organizations incentive to sample the benefits of flash with enterprise-ready data services and support.
Citrix Announces Aquisition of Sanbolic
Citrix has announced it has completed its acquisition of workload-oriented storage virtualization technologies company, Sanbolic. Sanbolic technology allows customers to leverage software defined storage to optimize the delivery of application-specific workload. This is accomplished by using flash and hard drives in NAS, SAN, server-side and cloud deployments, which helps to improve storage load balancing, application
EMC Announces Generally Availability Of ScaleIO 1.31
EMC has announced the general availability of the latest release of SaleIO, version 1.31. This new release will provide two times the performance improvement in VMware environments from an IO perspective and an improved vSphere deployment process with support for VMware installation manager.
SanDisk Spins Out ioControl Business – NexGen Reborn
In April of 2013, Fusion-io purchased NexGen storage as part of an IP rollup that included ID7. The vision was to combine Fusion's ioMemory, hard disk drives and ioControl software on x86 servers to create hybrid systems that offer flash-array performance at a far lower cost. Fusion-io paid $119 million in the deal to acquire NexGen. Now less than two years
Toshiba Announces 3TB 2.5-Inch HDD
Toshiba has announced a new 3TB 2.5-inch hard disk drive (MQ03ABB300) and the industry’s largest capacity for that specific form factor. The drive leverages perpendicular magnetic recording (PMR) technology and is the first 2.5-inch HDD to achieve 750GB per platter, using a total of 4 platters to achieve storage of 3TB. The MQ03ABB300 is designed for
Samsung SM951 M.2 PCIe SSD Released
Samsung Electronics has announced that it is mass producing a high-performance, low-powered PCIe SSD, the SM951. The SM951 is designed for use in both ultra-slim notebook PCs and workstations.
Lexar Announces Updated JumpDrive Line
Lexar has announced performance enhancements to its portfolio of JumpDrive USB 3.0 flash drives, including the Lexar JumpDrive P20, JumpDrive S75, JumpDrive S55, JumpDrive S35, and JumpDrive S25. Improvements include increased read and write speeds for faster transferring rates as well as EncryptStick Lite software to help protect essential files by providing the option to




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