Today Cisco UCS introduced significant innovations to its Unified Computing System (UCS). Cisco has broadened their portfolio with new products aimed at cloud service providers, high capacity media streaming, small IT environments, and data-intensive computing. The new portfolio of technologies is aimed at helping customers capitalize on the rapidly changing landscapes in compute needs and

Today Synology America Corp. announced the DS115j NAS. The DS115j is a single bay NAS and one of the most economical NAS units on the market. The DS115j runs Synology's award winning OS, DiskStation Manager (DSM).

Word began quickly circulating this week that Cisco has halted shipments of their UCS Invicta all flash arrays. Cisco picked up the Invicta technology from Whiptail for $415 million a year ago, but hasn't been outwardly communicative about their plans for the AFAs. Apparently now multiple customers are complaining of quality issues relating to scalability of the

NVM Express Inc. announced today that it is initiating an effort to specify a standard for NVM Express (NVMe) over Fabrics. NVMe over Fabrics will extend the benefits of NVMe to where usage over fabric is more appropriate than using PCIe. NVM Express also announced a revision of version 1.2 of its NVM Express Specification.

HP has announced details about the forthcoming Generation 9 of its ProLiant Server family. The ProLiant Gen9 lineup is optimized for convergence, cloud, and software-defined environments with an architecture based on a pool of processing resources that is geography- and workload-agnostic. ProLiant Gen9 servers can take advantage of proprietary HP PCIe application accelerators and the

Zadara Storage announced its new high-perfromance storage as a service solution, the Zadara iSER VPSA (iSCSIExtensions for RDMA for Virtual Private Storage Array). iSER VPSA is a new private cloud storage solution that is using a first of its 40 Gigabit Ethernet to boost performance at a lower cost than Fibre Channel. Zadara is the first

EMC’s ScaleIO 1.30, now has improved VMware integration, raising the bar and eliminating limits on what can be done with software-defined storage. ScaleIO is a single-layer, enterprise-grade storage product that is scalable and elastic. ScaleIO can scale from a couple of servers to thousands (scaling from a few terabytes to several petabytes), and businesses can shrink

VMware Inc. has announced it is rebranding VMware vCloud Hybrid Service to VMware vCloud Air. VMWare vCloud Hybrid Service used preexisting tools to extend customers data centers into the cloud and is available in three service offerings: disaster recovery, dedicated cloud, and virtual private cloud. Along with the rebranding comes new improvements that will provide greater choice

ExaGrid today announced details about updates to its core software offering with enhanced scalability for GRID backup storage deployments and expanded data center replication for disaster recovery. Version 4.7 also adds parallel replication and deduplication functionality and a new, integrated ExaGrid-Veeam data mover solution for virtualized environments.