At VMworld, Actifio today launched the PAS20T, a new addition to its Protection and Availability Storage (PAS) portfolio. PAS 20T enables the protection and recovery of up to 20TB of application data with an interface designed to simplify and consolidate vendor-specific applications for backup, snapshot, disaster recovery, business continuity, replications, deduplication, and WAN optimization.

Today marks the beginning of VMware’s ninth annual VMworld conference, where StorageReview is on site to cover major product launches from VMware and its partners. We will also be seeking out demonstrations of new and innovative technology on the tradeshow floor. Among the first product announcements of the conference is VMware’s vCloud Suite 5.1, which

EMC has announced VFCache v1.5, their second generation server-side PCIe-based flash caching solution. VFCache 1.5 includes several new features, highlighted by the inclusion of in-line deduplication, something EMC calls in industry first for server-based caching solutions. Other major updates include interoperability with vSphere vMotion and support for larger capacity PCIe flash storage cards and more

At VMWorld today, Kingston Digital announced the SSDNow E100 SSD, a new enterprise SSD that Kingston hopes will replace existing hard disk drive deployments that have reached the limits of HDD performance. This product launch marks a play by Kingston to extend its brand recognition from the consumer SSD market into value enterprise flash storage.

Today at VMworld, VirtualSharp Software announced a free version of its flagship ReliableDR that provides customers with production-ready disaster recovery replication functionality, heartbeat certification and RTO measurement. ReliableDR Free Edition has an agentless, modular plug-in architecture that supports all versions of vSphere including the Essentials kits.

Unisys Corporation today announced release 2.2 of its Secure Private Cloud Solution, with an integrated edition of Unisys Stealth Solution for Network that automates security infrastructure implementation for virtual machines provisioned through the Secure Private Cloud Solution.

Hitachi Data Systems Corporation has announced a roadmap to incorporate new flash management technology based on Hitachi intellectual property across its portfolio of enterprise and midrange IT solutions. This new strategy will be inaugurated by the immediate availability of new flash acceleration for Hitachi’s Virtual Storage Platform (VSP) that enables it to achieve more than

Dot Hill’s new AssuredSAN Pro 5000 Series and AssuredSAN 4000 Series target the midrange and high performance tiered storage array markets. The 5000 Series provides up to three automatic data tiers that analyze and optimize the delivery of priority data. The 4000 Series is built with the same architecture, but is tuned for is customers

Pure Storage has announced several new updates to their FlashArray 300 series of MLC NAND-based storage arrays and the Purity software that manages them. The Purity 2.5 management software update highlights include iSCSI support via 10GbE, ZeroSnap snapshots, and vCenter web client plugin. While all of the new features add breadth to the Pure Storage