Maker of the WD TV media player family, Western Digital, has added a ton of new sports and entertainment services to their product. Now included with the previously offered channels are streaming movie service VUDU, XOS College Sports, Comedy Time, Watch Mojo and others.

STEC, Inc. has announced its enterprise-class ZeusIOPS SSDs are now qualified across Fujitsu’s ETERNUS DX storage system portfolio, including the next-generation ETERNUS DX8700 S2 Enterprise Storage System. ETERNUS DX8700 S2 supports multiple open system environments and virtualized infrastructures with the integration of STEC’s ZeusIOPS SSDs, and delivers the high-end storage reliability, performance, flexibility, and cost-efficiency

A day after Seagate sealed the deal with Samsung, we’ve learned Western Digital has hit a snag with their acquisition of Hitachi. On November 23rd Western Digital announced the European Commission had approved the deal, but with conditions. Western Digital had anticipated certain actions would be required to close the transaction but still felt the deal would

Synology announced today that their XS Series NAS Servers are now VMware Ready with complete support for vSphere 5.0. This new certification level offers increased flexibility, greater performance, and enhanced storage and management efficiency inside the VMware platform. One of the main features of this new version is the Storage Distribute Resource Scheduler which improves

Toshiba announced today that one of its entire lines of enterprise hard disks and solid state drives have been qualified by SuperMicro. Having the SuperMicro name on these Toshiba drives ensures comparability between the devices and keeps the logos matching.

CommVault, a developer of Singular Information Management solutions for high-performance data protection, has launched a new Enterprise Consulting Services (ECS) practice to hasten the adoption of modern data management strategies. It will allow larger enterprises to migrate from legacy backup policies to a modern data management approach in the most efficient way possible and to

EMC has sent out a letter to its Velocity channel partners stating their disk drive prices will rise 5 to 15% beginning in January, 2012. These increases are due to the floods that are ravaging Thailand, which caused hard drive companies to raise their prices a few months ago. Until now, the large storage array and

While not yet confirmed by Apple, it appears their widely rumored acquisition of Anobit has been completed. Anobit is based in Israel and provides several storage components like mobile flash controllers, along with their own line of enterprise SSDs. Confirmation of the transaction comes via Twitter post from Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, "Welcome to Israel,

Seagate Technology (NASDAQ:STX) has announced the acquisition of the Samsung hard drive business is complete. Under the deal Seagate purchased facilities, assets and brought over employees that will help Seagate continue to innovate and add production scale to their existing hard drive operations with an emphasis on the development of small form factor solutions.