Hitachi, EMC-Avamar, DataCore Software and FalconStor Software are among the storage vendors that say that they have tightened their embrace of VMware's virtual servers. The calling of support for virtual servers comes ahead of next week's VMworld conference to be held in San Francisco, California.

PARIS, March 30 /PRNewswire/ -- RISE Storage Networks, a leading provider of innovative storage and SAN solutions in France, announced today that the company has agreed to team with DataCore Software to market and sell disk servers, iSCSI appliances, and Virtual Infrastructure software based on DataCore SANmelody(TM).

HANNOVER, Germany, March 11 /PRNewswire/ -- Magirus, one of Europe's largest suppliers of VMware(TM) software and the leading value-added distributor in the IT infrastructure marketplace, announced today that the company has signed a strategic agreement with DataCore(TM) Software to market and distribute DataCore's storage networking software to build on its success in deploying Virtualization Infrastructures.

SAN DIEGO, March 23 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- nStor Corporation, Inc., a subsidiary of nStor Technologies, Inc.