Today Scality announced it has signed a global reseller agreement with HP. Not only does this agreement expand Scality Software Defined Storage Solution using HP's global reach, it combines Scality's RING storage software with HP's server hardware.

ExaGrid Systems has announced the EX32000E backup appliance solution, which replaces the very versatile EX21000E as its largest and most powerful appliance to date highlighted by data deduplication and their data landing zone. The EX3200E uses ExaGrid’s scale-out GRID technology, allowing it to combine up to 14 appliances in a single scale-out GRID for a total of

Today at VMworld, Dell announced it will now ship NexentaConnect and NexentaStor solutions with Dell Engineered Solutions for VMware EVO: RAIL. Dell expands their offerings for VMware EVO: RAIL by fully integrating Nexenta Software-Defined Storage on Dell Engineered Solutions for VMware EVO: RAIL.

EMC has announced they are integrating EMC Isilon Scale-Out NAS with Cloudera's Enterprise Data Hub, which enables users to access and analyze data in an agile environment. EMC and Pivotal have also announced an update to their Data Lake Bundle.

Today Barracuda announced the general availability of Barracuda Backup 6.0. Barracuda also announced the availability of their new backup appliance Barracuda Backup 995. The releases are part of Barracuda’s Data Protection Plus strategic initiative aimed at helping customers protect, manage, and share data through any device they use and from anywhere they are.

Barracuda Networks Inc. has announced the general availability of Barracuda Message Archiver version 4.0. This release is part of Barracuda’s Data Protection Plus initiative, which is aimed at helping customers access, retain and share critical data from anywhere and any device.

Today at VMworld Europe, HP announced a new hyper-converged offering combining software-defined storage, compute, management, and VMware integration, the HP ConvergedSystem 200-HC StoreVirtual. The HP ConvergedSystem 200-HC StoreVirtual is aimed at simplifying IT operations, accelerate time to value and respond to business opportunities faster.

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%."