Today OCZ Storage Solutions, a Toshiba Group company announced its Saber 1000 series will now have Host Managed SSD (HMS) technology. As we previously spoke about in our second piece on SMR drives, Host Managed technology allows the host to manage certain aspects of the drives in order to boost performance and help give the drives a more
Carbonite Enhances Its Disaster Recovery Portfolio
Today Carbonite, Inc. announced that it has enhanced its portfolio of both hardware and software disaster recovery (DR) solutions. Carbonite is also releasing five new backup appliances (ranging up to 8TB in capacity) and the latest version of Carbonite Server Backup – Carbonite Server Advanced. Carbonite offers SMBs lots of flexibility in DR with multiple
IBM Launches New DS8880 Hybrid Storage Family
Today IBM announced the launch of its new enterprise hybrid storage family, the IBM DS8880 family. This new family of next generation of storage is designed to accelerate business critical applications and real-time data insights for clients requiring increased performance, data protection and uncompromised, nonstop availability.
Nutanix and SAP Announce Partnership
Nutanix has announced a global partnership with SAP, which will allow customers to use Nutanix web-scale infrastructure solutions to run business-critical SAP applications, such as with enterprise resource management, business warehouse, customer relationship management, and more. Announced back in June of this year, the Nutanix Xtreme Computing Platform (XCP) is a hyperconverged infrastructure solution certified for
Google Announces Cloud Datalab and Cloud Shell Betas
Google has announced the Beta version of Google Cloud Datalab at this week’s Google Cloud Platform Next event in Paris. The new data exploration solution is a web-based interactive developer tool, which gives users valuable insight from raw data as well as the ability to explore, share, and publish reports in an efficient and budget-friendly
Datagres Releases PerfAccel 3.0
Today Datagres announced a major upgrade to its PerfAccel Analytics and Acceleration solution, PerfAccel 3.0. Datagres states that this makes a major milestone in the evolution of their software-defined data management platform. The latest release aims to redefine the ease of management and the breadth of deployment for server based operational storage intelligence.
VMware Announces VMware vRealize Automation 7 & VMware vRealize Business 7 Standard
Today at VMworld Europe 2015, VMware Inc. announced two major updates in its cloud management platform, VMware vRealize Automation 7 and VMware vRealize Business 7 Standard. VMware had recently released VMware vRealize Operations 6.1 and VMware vRealize Log Insight 3, those releases combined with today’s announcement represents a complete refresh of its cloud management platform.
NetApp Announces New Data Fabric Solutions and Services
NetApp has announced new Data Fabric solutions and services that are designed offer the data management capabilities organizations need to achieve success in the hybrid cloud era. Initially released around this time last year, Data Fabric is NetApp’s vision for the future of data management. Now, the company has indicated that it has partnered with their
QLogic Announces Gen6 and Enhanced Gen 5 Fibre Channel Ready HBAs
QLogic has unveiled a new portfolio of Enhanced Gen 5 (16Gb) Fibre Channel Adapters as well as the industry’s first Gen 6 (32Gb) Fibre Channel Ready platform. The new platforms are designed to address the demands of next generation workloads, low latency SSD/flash-based storage and caching, and memory-intensive and transaction-heavy applications including virtualization, online transaction
Dell to Buy EMC in Deal Worth $67 Billion
In a huge announcement, Dell unveiled that it has signed a definitive agreement that they will acquire EMC Corporation all the while maintaining VMware as a publicly-traded company. The terms of the agreement indicate that EMC shareholders will receive $24.05 per share in cash in as well as $9.10 of a tracking stock linked to




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