TwinStrata has announced the general availability of its updated CloudArray software, with improvements to file sharing across sites, bulk ingestion, and cloud-to-cloud migration. CloudArray is available as an all-in-one subscription that incorporates cloud storage, bandwidth, and unlimited software licenses, or as individual software licenses. Physical appliances are available for both editions.

Toshiba has announced the next generation of high-capacity 3.5-inch form factor enterprise HDDs, the MG04 series. The MG04 series is engineered for midline and nearline business critical workloads and is the industry’s first enterprise capacity category models that support industry standard 4K Advanced Format sector technologies. It also supports persistent write cache technology, which improves

LSI Corporation has announced a new virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) appliance for use in VMware Horizon View environments. Developed in collaboration with EMC, Mellanox, and Supermicro, the appliance features LSI Nytro 3.2TB PCIe flash accelerator cards, Mellanox’s 40GbE interconnect solution, and Supermicro servers powered by EMC ScaleIO. The appliance is designed to support new deployments and provides a

G-Technology has announced that it is now shipping its new G-DRIVE with Thunderbolt and G-DRIVE mobile with Thunderbolt external storage solutions. These two new drives are specifically designed for consumers and professionals looking for one of the fastest desktop or mobile Thunderbolt or USB 3.0 storage solutions on the market. Both G-DRIVES are equipped with

Dell has announced the expansion of its Cloud Client-Computing solutions portfolio to include support for Windows Server 2012 R2 and vWorkspace. This combines existing infrastructure offerings for Windows Server 2012 R2 and vWorkspace into a single, end-to-end Hyper-V based desktop virtualization solution. This new reference architecture starts at under $250 a seat, including datacenter infrastructure,

VMware has announced a new turnkey Desktops as a Service (DaaS) solution related to their ongoing efforts in aiding cloud providers who want offer simple and cost-effective DaaS. VMware's partnership with best-of-breed technology from leading cloud vendors are set to deliver the industry’s only turnkey solution for service providers offering DaaS.

VMware has announced broad partner ecosystem support for VMware Virtual SAN, VMware’s first Software-Defined Storage product. VMware Virtual SAN–which is currently in a very successful public beta–will be certified with hardware servers and devices from Cisco, Dell, EMC, Fusion-io, HGST, a Western Digital company, HP, IBM, Intel, LSI, Samsung Electronics, SanDisk and Seagate at general

Fusion is announcing updates and enhancements across its ioMemory-based virtualization solutions, including new ioVDI software for virtual desktop infrastructure acceleration, updated ioTurbine caching software, a VMware Reference Architecture for the ioControl hybrid flash array, and VMware Virtual SAN (VSAN) certification. Each of these solutions uses ioMemory devices and software to target bottlenecks in virtualization performance.

Atlantis Computing today announced its new Atlantis ILIO USX (Unified Software-defined Storage) platform for virtualized environments. ILIO USX software can pool and tier combinations of inactive storage throughout the datacenter including from SAN, NAS, RAM, and DAS.  Atlantis ILIO USX is deployed via virtual machines that integrate with the hypervisor as an NFS or iSCSI