GE has announced that through their partnership with Pivatol, they have created the world's first industrial-scale data lake. The data lake will be able to take Big Data, store it in the form that it comes into the lake (saving a lot of time and effort that is generally spent getting it into a usable

Hitachi Data Systems (HDS) has acquired Sepaton, a company that manufactures scalable and cost-efficient purpose-built backup appliances (PBBA). Hitachi states that the addition of Sepaton as a wholly-owned subsidiary is part of their larger HDS data protection strategy that offers enterprise customers comprehensive data protection that is scalable and integrated. HDS customers now have access

Nimble Storage has released two new hybrid storage arrays, the CS300 and CS500. The new units refresh Nimble's lower and mid-range offerings, boasting a 50% increase in performance over the CS200 and CS400 models they're replacing. Like the high-end CS700, the new systems leverage Nimble's Adaptive Flash technology which allows for independent scaling of capacity and performance.

Lenovo has announced the launch of its new ThinkStation P Series: the P900, P700 and P500, which are rebuilt from the ground up and join the entry-level P300 as the most powerful professional-grade desktop workstations available on the market. The new P Series are designed for professionals in engineering, architecture, media and entertainment, oil and

Today Dell Software announced the release of a new data protection bundle, the Dell Backup & Disaster Recovery Suite. Through a single capacity-based licensing model, customers will have access to Dell’s full backup and recovery software portfolio. This new bundle will allow businesses to better create a solution that matches their needs versus paying too much

Quantum Corp has announced that is has acquired Symform’s cloud storage services platform and its development team, including Symform’s CTO and co-founder, Bassam Tabbara. Quantum plans on leveraging Symform’s cloud technology to expand its own cloud software capabilities and service offerings in data protection and scale-out storage.

Samsung has announced that it has begun mass producing the SM1623, a new high-performance SAS SSD using 10-nanometer class MLC NAND flash. The new Samsung SAS SSD is designed to meet the needs of many global customers for cost-effective, high-capacity SSDs and is targeted at enterprise customers. 

Last month EMC hosted a Megalaunch in Londer, announcing their new VMAX family as well as a several other offerings. Though we mentioned ProtectPoint at the time (last paragraph before availability) there wasn’t a tremendous amount of detail at the event. Since then EMC has provided much more on the emerging technology. ProtectPoint is a data protection offering which hopes

Syncplicity has released a new version of their app for iPhones, version 3.2.0. Syncplicity is EMC’S cloud-based file management and collaboration platform. The app gives users secure, full access to all of their files on their mobile devices.