At VMworld, Scality announced the latest version of their RING software, version 5.0. RING is a petabyte-scale, software-only storage solution that is designed to support file, object, and VM storage in a single storage pool without application customization, third party gateways, or storage appliance lock-in all at 50-70% lower cost. 

Nutanix has announced it has closed a $140 million Series E funding round at over a $2 billion valuation, bringing the company’s total funding to $312 million. The round was led by two Boston-based public market investors with over $3 trillion in combined assets under management. The newly attained capital will be used to invest

LaCie has announced the availability of their LaCie 8big Rack Thunderbolt 2 in a 48TB capacity. Originally announced back in April, the 8big Rack is the fastest, highest–capacity Thunderbolt 2 storage solution on today’s market, with LaCie quoting speeds upwards of 1,330MB/s when equipped with eight Seagate 6TB 7200 RPM enterprise hard drives. The 8big

At VMworld today, VMware Inc. announced their new integrated platform that manages applications, data, and devices, VMware Workspace Suite. With VMware Workspace Suite IT management is simplified, while offering a single portal to access mobile, desktop, and data. VMware also announced other innovations in order to help customers adopt desktop virtualization to scale while eliminating

EMC today announced RecoverPoint for Virtual Machines, a new software solution which extends the RecoverPoint family to provide disaster recovery and replication for VMware cloud environments. RecoverPoint for Virtual Machines can be installed on existing ESXi servers, and in addition to supporting EMC's VMAX, VNX, and VPLEX storage, RecoverPoint for VMs can replicate to and

Seagate has announced that it is now shipping the world’s first 8TB hard disk drive, providing scale-out data infrastructures with supersized-capacity, energy-efficiency, and the lowest total cost of ownership (TCO) in the industry for cloud content, object storage, and back-up disaster recovery storage.

SanDisk has announced broad support for VMware Horizon 6 and Virtual SAN with a series of virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) and end-user computing (EUC) solutions for Horizon 6, which leverage the ULLtraDIMM solid state drive as well as Fusion ioMemory.

Today at VMworld, VMware Inc. introduced their new hyper-converged infrastructure appliance, VMware EVO: RAIL. EVO: RAIL will help customers streamline the deployment and scale-out of software-defined IT infrastructure. VMware EVO: RAIL is the first solution in a family of hyper-converged infrastructure offerings from VMware.

Today at VMworld, VMware Inc. announced new solutions advancing VMware's complete product portfolio for implementing a software-defined data center. These new virtualization, cloud management, and integrated OpenStack solutions will expand customer choice through open frameworks, and support hybrid cloud environments based on both VMware and non-VMware technologies.