Coraid and Splunk Inc. are announcing a technical partnership which provides the basis for Coraid EtherDrive and Splunk Enterprise to interoperate for high-performance data collection, indexing and analytics functionality. Bringing together the scale-out architecture of Coraid’s EtherDrive and the functionality of Splunk’s software enables enterprises to easily deploy analytics capabilities for their data. Further, Coraid’s

Coraid is announcing EtherCloud Insight, the company’s new platform for storage performance analytics that provides visibility across the entire data path from the server, through multiple network paths, and into the distributed storage infrastructure. With the capability to measure end-to-end performance, IT administrators are able to gauge and diagnose performance issues. This functionality can be

Avaya is announcing its Software-Defined Data Center (SDDC) framework, which is based on Fabric Connect, an OpenStack Horizon-based Management Platform and Open APIs into the Avaya Fabric Connect. With this implementation, the SDDC framework can deliver productivity and time-to-service improvements to enterprises with highly virtualized data centers. In operation, the Avaya SDDC framework fuses and customizes

PROMISE Technology is announcing global availability of its VTrak A-Class all-in-one SAN which removes the requirement for organizations to purchase a separate primary metadata storage server, secondary metadata storage server and metadata storage device/array to build a shared SAN solution. The VTrak A-Class is engineered specifically for creative professionals in post-production, broadcast, photography, editors and

Dell has announced Foglight for Virtualization Enterprise and Standard Editions 7.0 and Foglight for Storage Management 3.0 which facilitate virtualization, storage and cloud computing initiatives for small to large enterprises. Starting with Foglight for Virtualization, Enterprise Edition 7.0, the software provides end-to-end performance monitoring and operations management for heterogeneous virtual environments in large corporate environments.

CommVault is announcing a new automated virtual machine (VM) archiving capability for its Simpana 10 software which enables enterprises and service providers to eliminate unnecessary VMs and take greater control of virtual infrastructure resources. Citing a recent study showing that up to 30-40% of VMs wind up not out of use, CommVault has designed the

Inktank is announcing contributions to Ceph that they’ve made in the newest release of Ceph Dumpling which offers enhancements to the hugely scalable, open source software-defined storage system. Ceph, which we covered back in May in our story about the Cuttlefish release, is an open source, distributed object store, network block device, and POSIX-compatible distributed

Actifio 6.0 is being announced and is an application-defined copy data management platform that provides data backup and disaster recovery features that go beyond functionality that exists with competing software. While other applications offer backup and business continuity, Actifio 6.0 drives innovation further with features including the ability to instantly provision application data for self-service

Imation is announcing its Nexsan NST6530 unified hybrid storage, which is part of the 6000 series platform, and its NestOS 3.0 which is a scalable storage operating system. The new NST6000 platform adds Fibre Channel support and can handle SAN and NAS workloads without performance taking a hit. It’s a unified hybrid storage platform that