Barracuda is announcing the release of Barracuda Backup v5.4 that includes enhanced features such as extended cloud storage, longer retention periods for backups without having to upgrade the local appliance, and support for local caches >100TB. The solution works for organizations ranging from small to large and includes software, an onsite appliance, and either an

Continuity Software is announcing that it’s expanding its risk management offerings by adding AvailabilityGuard/SAN, software which detects downtime and data loss risks across a SAN to ensure that data is protected and business continuity goals are met. As the modern SAN generally comprises several vendors’ solutions and can be managed by multiple IT teams or

Corsair is announcing the Force Series LS SSD line which is available in 60GB, 120GB and 240GB capacities and is engineered as a cost-effective upgrade for desktops and notebooks to replace HDDs. The Force Series LS is a 7mm height SSD, and can thus easily be installed in any standard 2.5" drive bay, or even a 3.5" drive

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