Hitachi Data Systems Announces Acquisition of BlueArc

Powerful Combination Gives Customers Highly Scalable, Reliable and High-Performance Solutions to Store and Manage the Explosive Growth in Unstructured Data Hitachi Data Systems Corporation (HDS), a wholly owned subsidiary of Hitachi, Ltd., today announced a significant milestone in its strategy to give customers seamless access to all data, content and information with the acquisition of… Continue reading Hitachi Data Systems Announces Acquisition of BlueArc

VMworld 2011: DataCore to Offer Free Storage Hypervisor to VMware Professionals

Company to Highlight Device-Independent Storage Virtualization During Event by Providing License Keys to Latest Release of SANsymphony-V Software at VMworld 2011, Booth No. 1321 FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–DataCore Software, the industry’s premier provider of storage virtualization software, announced today that during VMworld 2011 it will offer free license keys of its breakthrough SANsymphony™ – V… Continue reading VMworld 2011: DataCore to Offer Free Storage Hypervisor to VMware Professionals

Dell Launches New Generation of Dell EqualLogic Storage Solutions

Dell today announced new Dell EqualLogic storage solutions and supporting software to help customers address the data management requirements of increasingly dynamic, virtualized data centers. The company also released details of new integration across its storage portfolio with the forthcoming VMware vSphere® 5 virtualization and cloud infrastructure platform. Today’s announcements represent another milestone in the… Continue reading Dell Launches New Generation of Dell EqualLogic Storage Solutions

Strengthening the “Weak Link” in Virtualization

Storage Area Networks (SANs) and virtualization (e.g. Microsoft’s Hyper-V, VMware’s ESX) are the rapidly growing present and dominant future of general purpose computing. After all the “cloud” is based on these technologies. Key to these new technologies is the sharing of computing resources, which by definition, are limited. Speed of business isn’t just important –… Continue reading Strengthening the “Weak Link” in Virtualization

First Scale-Out NAS Virtual Appliances for VMware and AWS

New appliances allow users to deploy scale-out storage in virtual and cloud environments as easily as deploying virtual servers Gluster, a leading provider of scale-out, open source storage solutions, today announced Gluster Virtual Storage Appliances specifically designed for virtual machine (VM) and cloud environments. The new appliances give enterprises the ability to treat physical storage… Continue reading First Scale-Out NAS Virtual Appliances for VMware and AWS

You Are Virtualized for Top Efficiency, Right?

Taking it off the charts with lean storage utilization and maximized I/O performance Intense demands for network efficiency and lower operating costs are driving the phenomenal growth of virtualization. Yet despite outstanding virtualization technologies, the ability to effectively share resources in virtual environments runs into three barriers: I/O bottlenecks and performance degradation created by accelerated… Continue reading You Are Virtualized for Top Efficiency, Right?

HDS Enhances Cloud Adoption With New Integrated Infrastructure

As a foundational platform to the Hitachi cloud portfolio, the Hitachi Content Platform (HCP) v4 builds upon its leadership in intelligent, content-focused storage with new simplified and automated replication, more granular multitenancy and chargeback capabilities. Hitachi Data Ingestor and New Hitachi Content Platform Enable Distributed IT Organizations and Service Providers to Streamline Deployment and Operations of Cloud Environments.

First OpenStack Release Produces Open Source Cloud Alternative

OpenStack, an open source cloud computing platform with broad developer and commercial support, today announced the “Austin” code release of OpenStack Compute and Object Storage. Since the project’s inception three months ago, OpenStack has built an active community of contributors, delivered on its code release and feature commitments, attracted new member organizations and received significant interest from enterprises and service providers.