Red Hat Inc. announced that its Gluster Storage is available in Microsoft Azure as a fully supported offering. Through Gluster, Azure users will have a scale-out, POSIX compatible, massively scalable, elastic file storage solution with a global namespace. This announcement also means that existing Gluster users will have another public cloud environment to run Gluster

Since the announcement that Dell is buying EMC for $67 billion last month, I’ve been thinking a lot about what this deal means both to me and the vendors we use. Our business is largely an EMC shop for storage, and we use a variety of servers, switches and other products from HP, Cisco and

Unitrends announced today that in collaboration with Amazon Web Services (AWS) it is launching a Test Drive for Unitrends Boomerang. The AWS Test Drive is a sandbox environment that gives IT administrators, with enough free AWS datacenter time, the ability to learn about and investigate third-party solutions.

Back in June, Pure Storage announced a new all-flash array dubbed the FlashArray//m, their latest all-flash primary storage solution. Pure Storage has released further information about their new array, specifically concerning the components that make up the FlashArray//m: the overall architecture, NV-RAM, PCIe non-transparent Bridge, and its Flash Modules.

Today HPE announced that, according to the Storage Performance Council, its 3PAR StorServ 20850 All-Flash Array set a new world record SPC-2. The 3PAR StorServ 20850 AFA was able to take the top spot in the SPC-2 test displacing the former record holder, EMC VMAX 400k. The 3PAR StorServ 20850 AFA also took number 6 in price-performance, making

Druva has announced a new strategic alliance with Microsoft Azure that expands its presence into Microsoft’s public cloud and infrastructure platform.  This new alliance is beneficial to Druva as it gives their customers more flexibility giving them more choice in infrastructure vendor and the options to better meet data storage, privacy, and security needs. The

SUSE made a few announcements recently including the general availability of SUSE Enterprise Storage 2, its collaboration with several partners to bring SUSE Enterprise Storage to 64-bit ARM powered devices, and that Lars Marowsky-Brée will serve as SUSE’s initial representative on the recently announced Ceph Advisory Board. SUSE Enterprise Storage 2 is the new version of SUSE’s

Today IBM announced enhancements and innovations to its software-defined storage (SDS) line, IBM Spectrum Storage. These new innovations will improve storage management, data security and reduce data costs as they deploy new technology to support cognitive and other data-driven applications across hybrid cloud environments.

Today Lenovo and Nutanix announced a partnership centered on making Lenovo hyperconverged appliances powered by Nutanix software. Both companies are committed to reducing complexity and lower costs by delivering hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) to enterprises. This HCI will enable IT to focus on their business’s applications and services while offering a compelling alternative to public cloud services.