Toshiba America Electronic Components, Inc. announced its newest line of enterprise performance HDDs, the AL14SE series. The AL14SE series is designed for mission critical servers and high-performance, high-availability storage systems. The new HDD series is a 10,500RPM drive series that supports 12Gbit/s SAS and 512n sector length making it compatible with the latest generation host
Commvault Unveils The Latest Generation Of Its Solutions Portfolio
Today Commvault announced the newest generation of its solutions portfolio; this makes the eleventh version of Commvault’s solution portfolio. The new portfolio is designed to address the challenges of managing data and information in highly disrupted, fast-paced global business environments with a broad spectrum of innovation. To meet customers demands and market shifts, Commvault states
Supermicro Launches New X11 UP Solutions
Today Super Micro Computer Inc. launched a new generation of single processor platforms, X11 generation UP systems. Supermicro states that this new generation of products will raise the bar of performance and efficiency on what single processor platforms can do. Today’s announcement delivers the industry’s broadest range of workstations, long-life embedded solutions, and motherboard platforms
MOFCOM Okays The Integration of WD & HGST
Today China's Ministry of Commerce (MOFCOM) announced a decision that will allow large portions of both HGST and WD to be integrated under Western Digital Corporation. Western Digital states that as a unified entity the company will further drive its ability to innovate and lead in the changing data storage industry by leveraging its extensive
Pivot3 Brings Its HCI Technology To VMware vSphere 6
Pivot3 announced that it would be bringing its hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI) technology to VMware vSphere 6. The combination of the two technologies can accelerate time to value for organizations that utilize it. Solutions will be deployed faster, at lower costs, without the need for specialized expertise and increased CPU power to run advanced VMware vSphere
Kaminario Now Utilizes FalconStor’s FreeStor On Its K2 AFA
FalconStor Softwre Inc. and Kaminario announced that they will be leveraging FreeStor in the K2 All-Flash Array v5.5. FreeStor, an intelligent software defined platform, will enhance the K2 by providing enterprise-class data migration and multi storage vendor replication features that quickly and efficiently meet the stringent customer requirements of today’s complex datacenter ecosystems.
Atlantis Introduces USX 3.1 With Stretched Cluster
At VMworld Europe 2015, Atlantis Computing introduced its new Atlantis USX 3.1 platform with a new feature called Stretched Cluster. Atlantis states that this new platform can reduce business continuity costs by half. The new Stretched Cluster feature enables zero RPO and RTO between multiple data centers while providing organizations with a highly efficient hyper-converged
Spectra Logic Unveils ArcticBlue
This year at the Spectra Summit in beautiful Boulder, Colorado, Spectra Logic unveiled its latest disk-based product, the ArcticBlue. ArcticBlue leverages both Spectra’s BlackPearl deep storage gateway system and SMR technology to deliver the first nearline object storage that responds like disk storage with the longevity of tape. The Artic Blue can deliver up to 6.1PB
SanDisk Reportedly Looking for a Buyer
Hot on the heals of the biggest tech merger of all time, reports surfaced this week that SanDisk is shopping itself, looking for a buyer in perhaps WD or Micron. SanDisk has been on the other side of the coin for the last few years, buying up Flashsoft, Pliant, Fusion-io and Smart Storage to name a few. SanDisk has also launched their own "JBOF"
Imation Acquires Connected Data For $7.5 Million
Imation has made a few major announcements concerning the structure of their company, including the immediate appointment of Bob Fernander as Interim CEO. Imation also announced the equity acquisition of Connected Data, which has been valued at roughly $7.5 million during the closing. Imation has stated that it intends to complete the transaction through a short-form




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