IBM has announced its acquisition of Butterfly Software Ltd. which will become a part of IBM’s Software Group. Financial terms were not disclosed to the public. Butterfly is a privately held data analysis and migration software company based out of Maidenhead, England. They provide innovative applications that help organizations discover, analyse, and automatically migrate data centre

VeloBit has announced the availability of its HyperCache for Microsoft Windows and Microsoft Hyper-V. HyperCache transparently caches data on SSDs to improve performance without configuration changes to infrastructure or applications. According to VeloBit, HyperCache can increase Microsoft SQL Server transactions-per-second by 700% while reducing average response by more than 80%.

Autonomy, a subsidiary of Hewlett-Packard (HP), has announced the availability of HP Application Information Optimizer 7.0, an enterprise solution that improves application performance for businesses, meets critical compliance obligations, and can reduce data storage by up to 48 percent.

Toshiba’s Digital Products Division (DPD) has announced the 500 GB Canvio Slim Portable Hard Drive, their smallest portable hard drive yet, measuring in at only nine millimeters thick. This slim, compact drive comes in a brushed aluminum design, available in either black or silver. Additionally, its built-In USB 3.0 (backwards 2.0 compatible) interface significantly improves

Dell has announced it has begun shipping its first EqualLogic PS-M4110 storage blade arrays, a single PowerEdge M1000e chassis solution that consolidates the blade arrays with 11th or 12th generation PowerEdge blade servers and Dell Force10 and PowerConnect network switches in one device. EqualLogic solutions are designed for applications like turnkey remote office deployments which

AC&NC has introduced the new JetStor SAS 716U and 724U RAID systems, designed to integrate storage in mixed NAS and IP SAN environments. Both platforms are intended for small and medium businesses looking to leverage unified storage technology with features including compression, deduplication, snapshots, thin provisioning, and unified authentication.

Synology today announced the launch of an updated DS413 with hardware enhancements and DiskStation Manager (DSM) 4.1. The DS413 is a 4-bay network attached storage (NAS) device that features hot-swappable storage, hardware assisted 256-bit AES encryption, and 1GB DDR3 memory, double the amount of the previous version.

NETGEAR has released RAIDiator 5.3.6, a firmware update for its ReadyNAS Duo and ReadyNAS NV+ SMB storage devices that adds NETGEAR’s ReadyDROP for file synchronization across multiple devices and other private cloud features including remote Time Machine backup for Apple devices, remote media streaming with ReadyDNLA, and ReadyNAS Replicate for simple offsite replication and disaster

Between 2010 and 2015, IDC predicts that shipments of Solid State Drives are expected to increase by a compound annual growth rate of 52 percent on a global basis. The corresponding surge in enterprise server and storage adoption means that a deeper understanding of critical components such as media management and the use of new