Hot on the heels of the pending sTec acquisition and the addition of VeloBit to subsidiary HGST’s flash portfolio, WD is shopping again, this time acquiring Virident for approximately $685 million in cash. HGST currently only offers enterprise SSDs with a SAS interface, so Virident’s FlashMax line of PCIe-based storage and the associated FlashMax Connect sever-side caching software make HGST’s product

I'm back in our Cincinnati-based lab after an insanely brief visit to Milan this week for EMC's much anticipated but hardly secretive launch of the "new VNX" and product updates, launches and so on. VNX2 was the highlight of the show of course, well, that and a menagerie of Formula 1 race cars from Lotus

PMC today introduced the Adaptec Series 8, a new family of 12Gb/s SAS RAID adapters which feature an end-to-end PMC architecture which incorporates PMC’s I/O protocol controllers, RAID-on-Chip (RoC) controllers, SAS expanders, Solid State Drive (SSD) controllers, and software. According to PMC, the Adaptec Series 8 improves on the performance of its previous generation of

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 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 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 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 & 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