SolarWinds’ Virtualization Manager now allows users to manage both VMware and Microsoft Hyper-V environments from a single pane of glass. Diversification of virtualization tools means that multi-platform virtualization management products have an advantage in the marketplace. While multiple hypervisors within an organization isn’t unusual, SolarWinds is betting that allowing users will be drawn to the

Nimbus Data has earned the first Citrix Ready certification for multiprotocol high-availability flash memory systems. This certification will be essential for Nimbus’ continued growth in the Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) market, including XenDesktop and XenServer solutions. The Citrix Ready program identifies trusted third-party products for virtualization, networking and cloud computing solutions.

Barracuda Networks has announced the new Barracuda Backup Service with VMware host support, giving customers the ability to quickly and efficiently back up and restore guest virtual machines. The new backup service also provides deduplicated images of virtual servers that can be transferred offsite for thorough disaster recovery protection, which is available free for existing

Fusion-io has used DEMO Spring 2012 to launch their ioMemory SDK which offers software developers unprecedented native access to ioMemory flash storage. This means developers will be able to optimize web, enterprise and big data applications through direct access to the ioMemory layer for the first time. The net result is the tightest possible integration

UIT has announced three new products at the NAB 2012 conference in Las Vegas, including the pre-release of Media Cluster, a scale-out video and media storage solution for media and entertainment markets. It also announced two new storage products (the SV5000G2 and SV3000G2), the latest members of UIT’s Unified Storage line that are designed for

In their Q3 2012 quarterly earnings call, Seagate posted total drive shipments in the quarter that ended in March of 61 million units, which is 29% greater than the prior quarter. These shipments translate into 42 exabytes in total capacity shipped and $4.4 billion in revenue. Seagate credits their shipment growth to recovery in the mobile

OWC released a new Mac and PC bootable PCIe SSD solution called the Mercury Accelsior, built around two LSI SandForce-powered SSDs. Offering speeds up to 780MB/s read and 763MB/s write, with I/O capabilities up to 100,000 IOPS burst, the Accelsior offers a substantial boost in performance over a single SATA-connected SSD. While at NABShow 2012

Infortrend has added a 6Gb/s SAS solution to the EonStor DS G7 series, the latest generation of its EonStor DS family of storage products. These new Direct Attached Storage (DAS) systems follow up on new fibre channel systems announced earlier in the year. The EonStor DS G7 provides throughput of up to 5,200 MB/s and

Icy Dock has announced the new MB982IP-1S-1 2.5″ SAS/SATA to 3.5″ SAS SSD & HDD Converter to give users a pure 2.5″ to 3.5″ SAS conversion. The MB982IP-1S-1 is an addition to the MB982 enterprise series emphasizing the industrial-level SAS storage applications with dimensions, connection locations, with its mounting hole positions located to mimic a