Unitrends, provider of all-in-one backup, archiving, instant recovery and disaster recovery solutions, has announced Unitrends Release 7.0. This next generation software powering of physical and virtual backup and recovery appliances boasts data protection in virtualized and cloud environments, all the while providing an expanded range of platform and enterprise application support.

Pure Storage today announced new all-flash VMware-certified FlashArray VDI reference architectures and starter kits designed to deploy for less than $100 per seat. VDI Starter Kits can support a pilot for hundreds of users that later scales to more than five thousand users. Pure Storage’s VDI environments are intended for applications that range from traditional, stateless

Plextor, developer and manufacturer of high-performance digital media and storage equipment, has announced the availability of the 100K Xtreme firmware update for the M5 Pro SSD. The Plextor M5 Pro Xtreme update enables the SSD to deliver random-read speeds up to 100,000 IOPS as well as improved maximum random-write speeds at 88,000 IOPS. It also

EMC has announced general availability of Atmos 2.1, including details on several new features for Atmos that were not available when the 2.1 update was first announced in May. Atmos G3-Dense-480 hardware with a new x86 Intel architecture and a new release of Atmos GeoDrive Windows 1.1 round out the Atmos enhancements.

QNAP Systems has announced the release of TV Station, adding to Turbo NAS users’ multimedia experience of watching and recording TV online. The TV Station gives customers an economical solution to record their digital TV programs and to share live or recorded contents with multiple members simultaneously. This is an attractive option for TV fans,

LaCie has announced that its popular desktop hard drive, the d2, now features USB 3.0 and Thunderbolt connectivity and new 4TB 7200rpm hard drives. The d2 boasts speeds up to 180MB/s, which is about twice as fast as FireWire 800 and almost four times faster than USB 2.0. This performance enhancement allows users to transfer

HP today introduced updates and additions across its Converged Storage portfolio to simplify and streamline the transition to a unified enterprise storage architecture for all deployment sizes. The refresh extends throughout HP’s 3PAR StoreServ Storage, StoreAll Storage, and StoreOnce Backup product offerings. The HP Converged Storage system is designed to overcome legacy storage limitations with a

HP’s 3PAR StoreServ Storage lineup has been enhanced with systems and functionality to better support midmarket organizations adopting virtualization and cloud computing. Today’s announcement includes details about HP’s new 3PAR StoreServ 7000 Storage systems as well as resiliency and quality-of-service updates to the HP 3PAR Operating System Software.

HP’s StoreOnce lineup has added new StoreOnce 2000 and 4000 Backup systems for small and midsize businesses that offer up to two times faster native performance than their predecessors. Earlier this year, the company introduced HP StoreOnce Catalyst software for the enterprise StoreOnce 6000 series backup solution. Now, the entire line of StoreOnce Backup solutions