Today Dell Technologies completed its acquisition of EMC Corporation creating the world’s largest privately controlled tech company. Combined the companies create a $74 billion market leader with a wide breadth of products and solutions that cover a large portion of the industry including hybrid cloud, software-defined data center, converged infrastructure, platform-as-a-service (PaaS), data analytics, mobility,

Today Barracuda announced the latest version of its Backup, version 6.3, with new enhancements centered around better performance, enhanced public cloud support, and higher capacity. These new enhancements will be available in both physical and virtual Barracuda Backup appliances for customers with active subscriptions. Barracuda is also increasing capacity, while at the same time lowering price.

Today Spectra Logic announced that it expanded its Spectra BlackPearl Deep Storage Gateway family with two new products. The new products include an entry-level option, the BlackPearl V Series, aimed at smaller organizations, such as post-production houses and a more performance-ordinated option, the BlackPearl P Series, aimed at large organizations requiring superior performance to handle

G-Technology announced today that they will be showcasing a suite of new storage products at IBC that are designed to streamline creative workflows. G-Technology collaborated with the video production company Atomos to create a line of products that improves the efficiency of footage transfer. Five products are being released, including four that directly impact footage

During the IFA 2016 trade show, NETGEAR announced the release of two new Desktop NAS models and three new Rackmount models, all of which are geared towards small to medium-sized businesses in need of high-performing servers. NETGEAR claims that their new 6-bay desktop NAS models (i.e., ReadyNAS 526X and ReadyNAS 626X) and 12-bay rackmount models

At Huawei Connect 2016 in Shanghai, China, Huawei laid out its full cloud strategy. For the event itself, Huawei was hosting over 20,000 attendees including partners, customers, ICT (Information, communication, and technology) specialists, and media, including StorageReview, from over 120 different countries over the world. Huawei has integrated its other events into this single event

At Huawei Connect in Shanghai, China, Huawei introduced its new third generation, all-flash, converged system, the OceanStor Dorado V3. This new all-flash OceanStor Dorado is designed around performance, stability, reliability, and convergent efficiency for companies’ overloaded key applications. Huawei claims that the new Dorado can improve database performance 20x while still ensuring sustained service.

Nexenta has announced the availability of the enterprise and community edition of NexentaFusion 1.0 and version 5.0 of NexentaStor, the company’s OpenSDS solution. Featuring an intuitive user-interface, efficient workflows, DevOps friendly self-documenting REST APIs and rich storage analytics, NexentaFusion 1.0 and NexentaStor 5.0 are designed to save on operational costs.

Dell has made several announcements at VMworld, including the introduction of the Dell Validated System for Virtualization, touted by the company as the industry’s most flexible converged system, new client virtualization solutions with enhanced performance for demanding use cases, and that VMware has selected Dell Financial Services as its preferred financing partner.