EMC has announced new technology enhancements to its VNX line of storage solutions that aim to position them at the pinnacle of storage in data center environments. Dubbed EMC VNX2 by the industry if not EMC themselves, the new VNX incorporates substantial changes to the platform that are highlighted by a new controller designed to
Acronis vmProtect 9 Announced
Acronis is announcing its vmProtect 9, which is capable of recovering data from several levels including hypervisor, virtual machine, and application. Supporting Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft Sharepoint, and Microsoft Active Directory, vmProtect 9 is the most efficient and easy VMware vSphere backup solution for small and medium businesses and remote locations of larger enterprises. Using
Acronis True Image 2014 Announced
Acronis is announcing its True Image 2014 software, the first automated, scheduled backup of full system images to the Acronis Cloud. True Image 2014 is the newest version of this personal backup software which enables users to maintain a full system image in a remote location so that they are protected from various issues like
Mellanox 40GbE with vSphere 5.5 Support Everywhere at VMworld 2013
Mellanox has long been synonymous with high-speed interconnects, but this year’s VMworld has taken the company to a new level of visibility in the storage community. First off, the ConnextX-3 40GbE driver has been successfully integrated into VMware vSphere 5.5 which makes it easier to deploy 40GbE in virtualized environments. While 10GbE is slowly finding its way into enterprise storage
Acronis Backup and Recovery for vCloud Announced
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 Enterprise Backup Free Edition with Support for Free VMware vSphere Announced
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 DiskStation Manager 4.3 (DSM) Beta Completed
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 Flash Hypervisor for SMB Announced
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 Copy for Companies Enhanced
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 SSDNow E50 for Data Centers Announced
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




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