CommVault has announced an expanded partnership Microsoft to offer Simpana cloud backup and archival with Windows Azure providing the data storage infrastructure. This increased collaboration will enable CommVault’s customers to benefit from Windows Azure’s economies of scale and flexibility for both storage and computation. Together, CommVault and Microsoft will deliver archiving and backup capabilities for

The Hitachi Content Platform (HCP) is Hitachi’s enterprise-class storage platform for storing and managing block, file and object data. Today, Hitachi has announced enhancements for managing unstructured data growth, maintaining content security in shared storage environments, and streamlining traditional, cloud computing and distributed data storage environments.

Teradata’s new Teradata 700 appliance is launching as part of an integrated offering, SAS High-Performance Analytics for Teradata, which uses in-memory analytics to distribute big data and data warehousing analytics in parallel across a pool of memory. The Teradata 700 is pre-loaded with SAS High-Performance Analytics and purpose-built to leverage SAS advanced analytics.

LSI has announced the AXE2502 Axxia communication processor, designed to accelerate networking in enterprise and cloud datacenters by offloading complex networking tasks from servers and networking equipment.

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