EMC has announced the acquisition of San Francisco-based Pivotal Labs, a privately-held provider of agile software development services and tools. Pivotal Labs enhances EMC’s portfolio of products and services, which enable organizations to store, analyze, and take action on Big Data. The transaction is not expected to have a material impact to EMC GAAP or

Egnyte has announced the availability of Egnyte HybridCloud File Sharing for the Enterprise, which includes a set of features and integrations that provide a simple, scalable, and secure solution for file sharing and collaboration in enterprise environments. In addition to carefully controlling access and ensuring uninterrupted productivity needs, Egnyte has found that enterprise organizations have

Nexsan, has announced that the Nexsan NST5000 unified storage system has been chosen by Datapipe, provider of mission-critical IT services, as a part of its cloud-based storage initiative. The NST5000 is built for cloud-based environments that require enterprise-class features with high-performance.

Synology keeps rolling out improved NAS solutions, this time the small business class 4-bay DS412+ is the highlight, with a brand new case design. Synology also released a pair of single bay solutions for small office and home use, the DS112 and DS112j.

Seagate released new firmware for the GoFlex Satellite, offering improvements across the board in everything ranging from improved battery life to pass-through internet capabilities. The new firmware also lifted a software-limit on the amount of users that can connect to the device at any one time, allowing a total of eight to stream media off

Western Digital has announced their next generation WD My Passport portable hard drive that’s built around a single 2.5" hard drive with capacities ranging from 500GB to 2TB. The 2TB capacity features a 15mm four platter hard drive that makes a new high-water mark for capacity in drive of that size. The enclosures have also

Icy Dock has unveiled the MB994SP-4SB-1, a full metal quad bay 2.5" SATA 6Gbps backplane for use in a single 5.25" device bay. The previous model (MB082SP) included SAS, whereas its successor uses a SATA-only 6Gbps interface and adds a fan power switch to control as needed.

Symantec Corp. has announced that Symantec NetBackup 7.5 and Backup Exec 2012 are now available worldwide designed to help businesses of all sizes seamlessly transform and modernize their outdated, complex, and resource-intensive backup strategy. Additionally, Symantec has also announced a partnership with NetApp to resell the new NetBackup Replication Director option, enabling customers to unify

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