CA Technologies has announced enhancements to its ARCserve solutions to better extend data protection across IT environments with both virtual and physical systems, including systems on-premise, off premise, or in the cloud. ARCserve offers backup, disaster recovery, and business continuity capabilities via integrated solutions with a new licensing scheme.

QLogic has announced its next-generation line of FlexSuite 2600 Series adapters, which are now available through authorized QLogic channel partners. QLogic FlexSuite "dual-personality" adapters can easily fit into current installations as a 16GB Fibre Channel adapter and will provide end-user field upgradeability to a 10GBE-based converged network adapter (CNA) in the future.

Seagate Technology has announced three new enterprise-class HDD families for data center and cloud applications that will cover a broad range of capacity-to-performance and price-per-GB points. The Seagate Enterprise Value HDD provides up to 3TB of storage with a low-power architecture; the Enterprise Capacity 3.5 HDD will be offered in 1, 2, 3, and 4TB

Our full review of the Micron P320h as both a single drive and with two in RAID0 will be forthcoming later this week after many weeks of immersive testing. To whet the appetite a bit, we’ve created a short video highlighting the performance of the drives in our high-performance interconnect testing platform which is centered

Mellanox Technologies, provider of high-performance, end-to-end interconnect solutions for data center servers and storage systems, has announced SwitchX-2, the next generation of their switch silicon optimized for Software Defined Networking (SDN). Mellanox’s new SwitchX-2 is equipped with advanced capabilities of remote configurable routing tables, lossless and congestion free networks, efficient control planes, and SDNoptimized software

Hitachi’s (HDS) eleven new Hitachi Unified Compute Platform (UCP) converged infrastructure solutions combine storage, server, networking and software management in integrated packages. The UCP represents Hitachi’s efforts to improve upon first-generation converged infrastructure solutions, particularly on limitations around managing third-party devices in heterogeneous infrastructures.

Cisco and NetApp’s new prepackaged ExpressPod solution is intended for resellers with small-to medium-sized virtualization customers. ExpressPod combines computing, networking, storage, and management products into a solution architected for streamlined deployment. The joint announcement also includes details about new FlexPod storage clustering capabilities and the release of a validated VMware FlexPod solution for Oracle Real

NetApp and Desktone have announced a joint solution to support virtual desktops as a service (DaaS) built for cloud delivery environments to reduce startup costs, remove design and management complexity, and improve performance. The new solution positions NetApp and Desktone to leverage their existing technologies in order to capitalize on the growing DaaS market.

Overland Storage has announced the availability of LTO6 technology in the company’s line of NEO Series tape libraries. The new LTO6 technology has increased user storage capacities by more than twice than previous generation technology, providing up to 6.25TB in storage on a single data cartridge, boasting data transfer rates of up to 1.4TB/hr per