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Storage Vendor Tegile Gearing Up for VMworld
Tegile Systems will be showing off its flagship Zebi lineup in booth #1928 at next week’s VMworld 2013 conference. The event is set to take place in San Francisco from Sunday through Thursday, August 25-29. Tegile is a Newark, CA-based provider of hybrid storage arrays that recently secured $35 million in Series C funding after ...
Piston Provides OpenStack Infrastructure to Cloud Foundry Ecosystem
Piston Cloud has started a new chapter in its partnership with EMC and VMware spin-off Pivotal by setting up an OpenStack environment for the Cloud Foundry development community. The two companies had previously collaborated on an interface that allows the VMware-developed platform-as-a-service (PaaS) solution to run on top of OpenStack. Piston hopes that the deployment ...
Fusion-io to Put Acceleration Tech on Display at VMworld
Flash shines in virtualized environments, and what better place to demonstrate this quality than VMworld. SSD behemoth Fusion-io announced this week that it will offer guides on how to accelerate VMware-virtualized workloads using its ioMemory architecture at the upcoming VMworld 2013 conference in San Francisco. Fusion-io will instruct attendees on using Cisco UCS Storage Accelerators ...
Nutanix’s Flash-Optimized Dedupe with New NOS Release
Nutanix is targeting flash-powered virtualized environments with the latest version of its converged infrastructure platform. Nutanix OS (NOS) 3.5 features improved management capabilties and a comprehensive deduplication solution that optimizes capacity across memory, flash and disk. The new release introduces Nutanix Prism, an administration framework that includes a graphical interface for viewing infrastructure and virtual ...
MapR Expands to Nordic Region with Stockholm Office
MapR announced this week that it’s bolstering its oversees presence with a new branch in Stockholm, Sweden. The office will be led by senior executive Patrik Svanström, who will spearhead the Hadoop distributor’s expansion into the booming Nordic market. Svanström joins MapR from Hewlett Packard’s General Western Europe division, where he was responsible for 120 ...
The NetApp Angle on Virtualization: Automation a Stepping Stone to Software-defined Data Center
Kristina Brand and Lisa Crewe of NetApp Solutions Marketing stopped by the Wikibon headquarters to share their insights into virtualization, automation and the software-defined data center with co-founder Dave Vellante. Brand highlights that NetApp’s virtualization strategy has evolved both organically and through acquisitions. She adds that her company’s OnCommand portfolio is helping enterprises address the ...
Dell Bolsters Virtualization Lineup on Heels of Storage Market Victory
A week after beating out Hewlett Packard to become the largest supplier of storage capacity in the world, Dell is refreshing its virtualization portfolio with three new operations management solutions. The new releases include Foglight for Storage Management 3.0, which according to Dell offers enterprises “complete visibility” into their infrastructure. The platform also packs a ...
Data Quality : A Matter of Life or Death in Healthcare
Many of the speakers at this year’s MIT Chief Development Officer Information Quality Symposium attended on behalf of companies in the healthcare industry, where data quality often makes the difference between life and death. Peter Anlyan, the co-chair of the event and owner of Anlyan Consulting, discussed how Big Data is disrupting this segment in ...
WANdisco Grabbing Headlines with High Availability Hadoop
WANdisco is making big gains in the Hadoop ecosystem with its active-active replication technology. The company’s Non-Stop Name Node platform promises to eliminate the single point of failure inherent in the framework by synchronizing all NameNode servers deployed over a WAN. This approach has the added benefit of minimizing the chance of data corruption. The ...
Citrix Rolls Out Enterprise App Store
The mobile explosion is empowering enterprises to boost employee productivity and drive down operational costs, but it is also introducing new security risks that IT departments are struggling to address. Citrix hopes to ease the burden on administrators with Worx App Gallery, an enterprise hardened app store that is now available with its XenMobile device ...