Unitrends has announced availability of Unitrends Release 7.4, the latest version of the software that powers the company’s Unified Data Protection physical and virtual backup and recovery appliances. With the release of 7.4, Unitrends has dramatically upgraded its Unified Enterprise Backup (UEB) and its Recovery Series.

Dell has announced vRanger 7.0, the latest version of their virtual data protection solution. Dell vRanger offers users high-speed backup and recovery of VMware, Microsoft Hyper-V, and physical Windows Server environments and provides high-speed replication for VMware. It also protects entire virtual environments in just minutes, detects and backs up new VMs automatically, and delivers

DataCore has revealed new virtual SAN functionality and significant enhancements to its SANsymphony-V10 software, the 10th generation release of its comprehensive storage services platform. This new update substantially improves virtual SAN capabilities designed to achieve the fastest performance, highest availability, and optimal use from flash and disk storage directly attached to application hosts and clustered

Red Hat has announced it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Inktank, provider of scale-out, open source storage systems. Inktank’s flagship technology, Ceph Enterprise, provides object and block storage software to enterprises looking to deploy public or private clouds, including many early adopters of OpenStack clouds. The combination of Red Hat's existing GlusterFS-based storage offering and the newly acquired

Unitrends has launched Unitrends Certified Recovery Suite (UCRS), a multi-environment back-up and disaster recovery software bundle for small to medium businesses. The bundle includes three previous software packages that can give SMB enterprise-class protection at an attractive price point.

Hot on the heels of refreshing their enterprise SATA SSD line, SanDisk is updating their entire SAS offering with several new announced drives including the 4TB Optimus Max, Lightning Gen. II 12Gb/s SAS SSDs, and entire the Optimus product family, extending SanDisk’s entire SAS portfolio to cover the performance, capacity and endurance needs of a wide array of

EMC has launched the latest addition to their entry-level midmarket storage line, the VNXe3200. Like the VNX2 refresh last year, the new VNXe3200 picks up MCx (multicore optimization), which is the core driver of up to 3X gains across the board in virtual machine/virtual desktop density, Exchange mailboxes and transactional databases over the previous VNXe. The VNXe3200

EMC has announced DLm (Disk Library For Mainframe) release 4.1, their software solution that allows users to store various data types with primary and deduplication storage support. As businesses transfer more and more mainframe data on mobile and cloud platforms and back to the datacenter, mainframe data protection and recoverability are becoming extremely important. DLm offers a much more useful

Synology has announced the Embedded DataStation EDS14, a palm-sized NAS that combines durability with reliability, implementing Synology’s advanced network storage solutions in a wide range of application scenarios.