Acronis Backup & Recovery for vCloud is the first complete self-service backup for VMware vCloud, and it enables organizations from a range of sizes to protect their virtual machines (VMs) in public, private, and hybrid clouds. Users can access the backup and recovery of their VMs via a web console which provides a seamless on-premise-to-cloud

Unitrends is announcing the availability of Unitrends Enterprise Backup Free Edition for the unlicensed (free) version of VMware vSphere Hypervisor. With this addition, Unitrends is now the only data protection provider to offer a free, automated, fully functioning backup and recovery solution for both the licensed and unlicensed versions of VMware vSphere Hypervisor. This adds

Synology is announcing that the company has finalized DiskStation Manager (DSM) 4.3 as the latest official release of its network attached storage (NAS) operating system software after completing a public beta period. DSM 4.3 updates the previous release, DSM 4.2, with new features for businesses, prosumers, and enthusiasts, including link aggregation for high availability (HA),

PernixData FVP is announcing a SMB version of a Flash Hypervisor which follows its recent announcement of the Enterprise version of the industry’s first Flash Hypervisor. The SMB version of PernixData FVP supports up to 4 hosts where flash storage is virtualized into a clustered acceleration tier enabling a quick, cost-efficient way to scale out

Barracuda is announcing enhancements to its Copy for Companies file sync and share service which include expanded security capabilities, company visibility into employee accounts, and better control over incoming shared data. Having been originally released in February, Copy has also tweaked the GUI, admin page and folder management to improve the overall usability. Copy is

Kingston is announcing the forthcoming SSDNow E50, the company’s latest enterprise-class SSD engineered with affordable NAND for applications that do not have heavy endurance requirements. The SSDNow E50 will be positioned as the less-expensive sibling to the previously announced SSDNow E100, which features 30K NAND that is more suited for write-intensive server environments than the

Lenovo is announcing its ThinkCentre M32 thin client that features an Intel Celeron platform with plenty of legacy port support. The ThinkCentre M32 is designed for enterprises looking for a value offering that provides a desktop virtualization offering, and since data resides on the network with thin clients, capital investments and security threats (viruses, data

TwinStrata is announcing CloudArray 4.7 software, an updated version which enables users to access production snapshots of their data remotely, and along with that capability comes new accelerated cache reload functionality to streamline disaster recovery and testing. Also new, CloudArray 4.7 features improved encryption key protection, fully integrated support for Cleversafe’s dsNet dispersed storage technology

VMware vCloud Suite 5.5 is being released with enhanced versions of vSphere, vCloud Connector, vCloud Director, vCloud Networking and Security, and vCloud Site Recovery Manager – allowing best-in-class automated operations management, virtualization aware security, automated business continuity, and superb platform reliability. With this software, organizations can provide cloud services that facilitate agile application provisioning, availability,