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XIO’s Hyper ISE Offers SSD Performance at Disk Prices
Xiotech, which has changed its name to XIO as of August this year, is betting a lot on its Hyper ISE (Integrated Storage Elements) product. CEO Alan Atkinson and chief enterprise architect Robert Stevenson discussed further in an interview with The Register. Hyper ISE is a high-performance storage system that’s designed for virtualized deployments and ...
DataDirect Networks Unveils Major WOS Upgrades
Big data-focused storage solutions provide DataDirect Networks announced the newest version of its Web Object Scaler, which features big performance improvements and data protection enhancements. “As more organizations move toward cloud paradigms, there is an exponential business need to globally ingest, store, process, replicate and retrieve hundreds of millions or billions of objects per hour ...
Verizon Set to Unveil Dual-Persona Mobile Software with VMware
This week at the San Diego CTIA Enterprise & Applications tradeshow, Verizon is set to announce dual-persona mobile software in partnership with VMware. It would allow business users to have two phones in ones, where personal data and business data are stored in two different segments. The advantages of this include economics, convenience on the ...
Box Closes $81M Round, Biggest Round to Date
Box.net, a cloud storage provider, announced it’s closed a massive $81 billion round of funding. New investors Salesforce.com, SAP Ventures, Bessemer Venture Partners and New Enterprise Associates chipped in, alongside existing backers Andreessen Horowitz and Draper Fisher Jurvetson Growth. “Even though the funding was announced in two stages–an $18.6 million D-1 round from insiders in ...
Bottleneck Woes in Virtualization: Infographic
Tintri, a provider of a virtualization optimized storage system, released an infographic entitled “Storage Holds Back Virtualization Deployments,” in which it laid out the obstacles and demands from their VM customers. In 2011, thirty-six percent of companies are more than 75 percent virtualized, and that number is expected to grow to 65 percent by the ...
Nodeable Socializes your Servers
Nodeable, a startup that raised $2 million from True Ventures, Crosslink Capital, and Barton Asset Management, announced its “collaborative systems management tool for the cloud.” The service aims to make the IT department’s day easier by wrapping up technical lingo and code with a social layer that can be compared with Facebook and Twitter streams and language. ...
Facebook Appeals to Gamers and Developers with New iPad App
Facebook launched the first version of its iPad app this week, which is available immediately via the App Store. It also extended its Facebook Platform to its iOS apps and mobile site, allowing developers to reach the 350 million users that access the social media site via these channels every month according to the company. ...
SAP Ventures Puts $10M in One97
SAP Ventures, the software maker’s VC arm, invested $10 million in One97 Communications, an India-based company that provides services to telcos and mobile users. Vijay Shekhar Sharma, the founder and current head of the company said One97 will use the capital to expand its business in Asia and Africa, boost R&D and hire new talent. ...
QLogic Invests in Partner Ecosystem, Margins
Networking solutions maker QLogic is on a steady growth track, and one way the company is maintaining this momentum is by expanding its partner ecosystem. SAN encryption provider Bloombase Technologies is the latest name on that list, now that it announced its Spitfire Encryption Security Server passed the QLogic Storage Networking Interoperability testing. “The comprehensive ...
Yammer’s New Desktop Version Gets More Social
Yammer upgrades the desktop version of its enterprise sharing and collaboration software, which now offers six new features. Most of the changes are designed to enhance the UI and the overall use experience. A group directory has been added so that users can navigate groups, including suggested ones, and access Yammer’s homepage in order to ...