Unitrends announced the upcoming availability of Unitrends Release 8.0, the latest version of the software that powers the company’s Unified Data Protection physical and virtual backup and recovery appliances. With the release of 8.0, Unitrends has majorly upgraded its Unified Enterprise Backup (UEB) and its Recovery Series.

OCZ Storage Solutions has announced its new enterprise-class Saber 1000 SSD Series, which is designed for read-intensive applications targeting high-volume deployment hyperscale, web-hosting and distributed computing environments such as online archiving, web browsing, media streaming, and indexing. The SATA-based Saber 1000 Series is equipped with an enterprise-optimized feature set, large storage capacities, and low total

DataDirect Networks (DDN) has made a series of announcements this year at SC14. These announcements include a collaboration with Intel, combining Intel’s Enterprise Edition for Lustre software with DDN’s EXAScaler solution. The validation of DDN’s Infinite Memory Engine burst buffer and application accelerator through continued customer adoption and the release of the latest performance tests.

Primary Data officially came out of stealth today, announcing preliminary details about its new platform to virtualize data throughout a datacenter environment with a single global dataspace. The new solution, currently in testing by early access partners, is an attempt to decouple storage management from the data residence by use of a policy engine that automatically

Today Hybrid Memory Cube Consortium (HMCC) announced the finalized and publicly available of its new specification HMCC 2.0. The new specification is a commitment to evolving a family of specifications aimed at all high-performance computing (HPC) applications.

Maxta announced that its hyper-converged solution is the first to be certified by Cisco and will be running on the Cisco Unified Computing System (UCS) C-Series Rack-Mount systems. The solution will also support clusters spanning metro distances.

HP today announced fortchoming updates to its MSA Storage solution that leverages SSDs to add data tiering. and other virtualization functionality to the company's entry-level Fibre Channel arrays. HP's updates place a priority on using the fourth-generation MSA architecture to make technologies including sub-LUN tiering, thin provisioning, and intelligent storage automation more accessible to budget-constrained IT

Dot Hill Systems has announced they are collaborating with Intel and Mellanox on a new scale-out high performance Lustre file serving solution. The solution provides a massively scalable and high performance infrastructure for a broad range of use in high performance computing.

Synology is now shipping their DS1515+ (5 bays) and DS1815+ (8 bays) DiskStation units, its newest Plus series multi-bay NAS designed to facilitate intensive data exchange, collaboration, and reliable backups for small and medium-sized businesses.