Google announced today that it was lowering pricing on Google Compute Engine Instance types. Google states that it is already 40% less expensive than other cloud providers on many workloads. Google is also introducing a new class of preemptible virtual machines. These new VMs will deliver short-term capacity for low costs.

Today Maxta announced its aim to simplify hyper-converged management across virtualization technologies with MxInsight and MxCloudConnect. These new offerings combined with Maxta’s enterprise-class data services, will, as Maxta claims, “close the storage management gap eliminating the need for complex and costly storage arrays.” Maxta is also announcing support for the latest OpenStack release, Kilo.

Axcient announced that it is extending its Recovery as a Service (RaaS) to laptops and desktops through its new offering, Direct To Cloud. This new offering allows organizations to replicate their entire physical and virtual servers to the cloud without a local appliance.

Today Toshiba America Information Systems, Inc. announced four new flash storage products. Toshiba’s Digital Products Division has released two new SD cards, Toshiba EXCERIA Pro SD Memory Card and Toshiba EXCERIA microSD Memory Card, and two new flash drives TransMemory U362 Retractable Flash Drive and the TransMemory Mini U201 USB Flash Drive.

QLogic Inc. is collaborating with Cavium Inc. to develop a joint solution aimed at accelerating performance enterprise storage, cloud storage, and Big Data storage applications. The solution is a combination of QLogic’s low latency 25Gb Ethernet (25GbE) RDMA-enabled NICs (RNICs) and Cavium’s high-performance 48 core ThunderX processors. Not only will customers see accelerate performance in bid data

Toady Eaton Corporation Plc announced that its third generation ePDU platform has metered outlet power measurement capabilities. IT and data center managers will now have the ability to monitor and measure factors such as voltage, current and power consumption enabling them to lower power consumption.

Dell Inc. announced new solutions in its desktop virtualization portfolio that are geared to work well in Citrix Environments. These new offerings include the Dell Appliance for Wyse – Citrix, Dell Wyse Device Manager (WDM) 5.5 and a new release of Foglight for Virtualization for application and infrastructure monitoring.

Commvault is joining the ranks of many others that are hoping to accelerate the adoption of hybrid cloud environments as well as simplify the process for customers. Commvault is debuting a new solution for cloud disaster recovery and enhancing its existing solution set.

Today at Citrix Synergy there were a number of announcements from Citrix, Nexenta had a few to make as well. Nexenta announced that it is allowing early access of its next generation Software-defined solution (SDS), NexentaStor 5 Community Preview, to the Nexenta Community. Nexenta also announced that its NexentaConnect for Citrix XenDesktop and NexentaStor have