Permabit Technology has announced that it has joined the EMC Select Program. Through the partnership, EMC will sell Permabit's plug-and-play inline data efficiency appliance, SANblox, through its sales and reseller channels. New and existing EMC Fibre Channel SANs will now be provided with a ready-to-run, high performance data efficiency appliance.

Imation Corp has announced the first high-security, high-performance external USB 3.0 hard drive that can be managed in the cloud, the IronKey Enterprise H300. Through a centralized, cloud-based management console, IT administrators have visibility into the IronKey Enterprise H300 where they can customize security polices as well as deploy and manage the devices across the

Samsung has announced that it has begun the mass production of the industry’s first 3-bit multi-level-cell (TLC) 3D V-NAND flash memory for use in SSDs. The 3-bit V-NAND leverages 32 vertically stacked cell layers per NAND memory chip (with each chip providing 128Gb of storage) and is Samsung’s second generation V-NAND package.

Veeam Software has announced Veeam Endpoint Backup Free, a standalone solution that gives users the ability to back up Windows-based laptops and desktops to an internal or external hard drive, NAS share, or a Veeam backup repository. Veeam Endpoint Backup Free adds to the company’s vast portfolio of free tools used by over 500,000 IT professionals and is

HP offers storage systems designed for both primary and backup storage needs. Veeam and HP partnered to provide an integrated solution for HP 3PAR StoreServ, StoreVirtual and StoreOnce. The combination of Veeam and HP brings together HP’s advanced storage with Veeam’s availability solutions to deliver on modern data center needs.

VMware is one of the industry's leading virtualization software company with technologies to simplify IT complexity and streamline operations. As a result, this helps businesses become more agile, efficient and profitable. In addition, by virtualizing infrastructure (from the data center to the cloud to mobile devices), VMware gives IT the ability to deliver services from any location at any

Founded in 1989, SHI is a $5 billion global provider of information technology products and services to Corporate, Enterprise, Public Sector and Academic customers of all sizes. From software and hardware procurement to IT asset management and cloud computing, SHI delivers custom IT solutions for every aspect of your environment.

Bitdefender’s GravityZone is a hypervisor-agnostic security software for virtualized environments that is delivered as a virtual appliance for deployment across any combination of virtualization platforms and devices. In addition to its partnership with Veeam, GravityZone can be integrated with VMware vCenter, Citrix XenServer, and Microsoft Active Directory.

SwiftStack is a unified storage platform that runs on Linux with commodity hardware in order to provide massively scalable, software-defined storage. SwiftStack is based on the OpenStack Swift object storage engine and uses an out-of-band controller that conceptualizes storage as a data plane (physical storage) and a control plane (data and metadata management layer).