Today at VMworld Europe HP and VMware announce that they are partnering together to deliver a hyper-converged infrastructure appliance powered by VMware EVO: RAIL, HP ConvergedSystem 200-HC EVO: RAIL. This is the second 200 line of hyper-converged solutions, the first being the HP StoreVirtual version.

EMC Corporation has announced a Mainframe Performance Accelerator (MPA). EMC claims that their latest innovation "improves VMAX FICON connectivity throughput by up to 60% and decreases response time by up to 30%."

Nutanix has announced the release of the NX-9000, the industry's first all-flash hyper-converged platform. Nutanix has also announced the release of Metro Availability, a technology that stretches datastores for Virtual Machine clusters across two or more sites. These new additions aim to give customers high-performance, flexible hyper-converged solutions for any workload and help them as

Today Scale Computing announced a new release of its Ultra-Easy HyperCore Software. This new release expands the capabilities of Scale's HC3 family providing greater scalability and more storage computing power.

Today at VMworld Europe, VMware Inc. announced two new cloud management solutions as well as updates to their VMware vRealize Suite 6 and VMware vRealize Operations (formally VMware vCenter Operations Management Suite). The new solutions include: VMware vRealize Code Stream, enabling DevOps teams to deliver frequently, reliable software releases; and the beta launch of VMware

Druva has announced the release of their first-of-a-kind public cloud backup and long-term storage solution, Druva Phoenix. Phoenix offers an alternative to the traditional server backup model: backup to secondary storage, tape, and then long-term offsite archiving. Phoenix is a archiving, retention, and recovery solution that is designed to eliminate tape, offsite storage, complexity, and

Today EMC Corporation announced the immediate availability of Federation Software-Defined Data Center Solution. This is the first of five planned solutions from the EMC Federation of business. The Federation consists of EMC Information Infrastructure (EMC II), VMware, Pivotal, and RSA.

WD has announced the Sentinel DX4200 storage server is now available, expanding their business-class NAS portfolio. The WD Sentinel DX4200 is a complete solution that provides SMBs the advantages of on-premise centralized storage and is designed to meet the demands of today's SMBs by combining Windows Storage Server 2012 R2 workgroup operating system and the

Barracuda Networks Inc. has announced that Barracuda Copy Site Server is now generally available with the new edition of Barracuda Copy. Copy Site Server simplifies moving traditional file servers to cloud-based solutions while minimizing productivity loss. The new edition of Copy is part of Barracuda’s Data Protection Plus initiative that is aimed at helping customers protect, manage,