HGST, a Western Digital company, announced today that it shipping its new NVMe compliant PCIe SSD series, the Ultrastar SN100 series. HGST is billing the drive series as "the industry's highest-performing NVMe compliant SSDs." Hot on the heels of Intel's new PCIe SSD, the SN100 series is designed for mission-critical data center workloads, including scale-out databases

Seagate Technology introduced a new line of business NAS solutions, the Seagate WSS NAS. This new line of NAS solutions enable Microsoft-based small to medium sized businesses an easy method to collaborate better with seamless integration with Microsoft Cloud, Office 365, and Microsoft Azure Backup.

Today Fujifilm Recording Media U.S.A., Inc. announce that, in conjunction with IBM, it has developed the highest capacity storage media ever achieved. This advanced prototype media is a magnetic particulate tape that has an areal data density of 123 billion bits per square inch. A single cartridge can store up to 220TB of uncompressed data.

HP has announced updates for its HP t310 and HP t310 All-in-One Zero clients. These updates will ease connectivity and collaboration in the cloud. The new updates are coupled with the release of Teradici firmware version 4.8.0.

Today Microsoft made two announcements around next generation cloud technologies. Microsoft followed up on its joint announcement with Docker last October about bringing a Windows Server Container that brings together Windows and Docker Ecosystem. This is going to be done through new Hyper-V Containers. Microsoft is also announcing a Nano Server for powering born-in-cloud applications

Netlist Inc. announced the newest product in its NVvault family, the EXPRESSvault EV3 PCIe 3.0 NVRAM. The EXPRESSvault EV3 comes in 4GB, 8GB, and 16GB capacities and is an ideal match for server and storage solutions in next-generation data centers for cloud computing that integrate IBM POWER or Intel Haswell/Broadwell CPUs and PCI Express SSD products.

Spectra Logic announced updates and enhancements to their BlackPearl Deep Storage Gateway solution. These new enhancements and updates allow users to move their data seamlessly into deep tape storage. Users will easily be able to store massive amounts of data forever for pennies per gigabyte.

Today Lenovo announced new network offerings targeting the traditional IT data center, as well as private and public cloud environments, two new Lenovo RackSwitchs and Lenovo Flex System SI4091. Lenovo also announced new automated systems management solutions, Lenovo XClarity and Lenovo XClarity Pro.

Today HGST (a Western Digital company) announced its new object storage system, Active Archive. The Active Archive System is designed to address the need for rapid access to massive data stores. The type of data the system predominately stores is data that is past its create and modify phase of its life, moving into its