Centrify Corporation and Dropbox partner to enable secure access for Dropbox for Business. Centrify is an industry leader in unified identity services across the data center, cloud and mobile. Dropbox is a service that lets you store, sync and share your photos, docs and videos securely. From Dropbox’s end, this development is seen as a counter ...

Fusion-io upgraded its ioTurbine software today, reportedly marking the industry’s first unified virtualization software solution. The upgrade boasts features such as hypervisor caching, virtualization-aware caching in the guest VM, dynamic reallocation of cache memory during live migration of virtual machines in VMware vMotion, and unified management of caching across virtual and physical environments. The update ...

There was a lot of speculation as to which company was the mysterious company behind the $700 million ‘Project Mountain’ data center in Des Moines, Iowa. With many pegging it an Amazon or Apple data center, ‘Project Mountain’ in fact belongs to Microsoft. The aforementioned Microsoft is plowing $700 million into a data center that ...

EMC was in the storage news a lot this week. As the Internet of Things, or the Industrial Internet, continues to shift the conversation away from Big Data to Bigger Data aka our Data Revolution — storage plays a very important role in that narrative. Equally important is the cloud and how it will impact ...

So Instagram announced Vine, I mean video on Instagram today. Instagram co-founder Kevin Systrom unveiled the new video product at an event at Facebook’s headquarters on Thursday. Instagram boasts 130 million active users each month and users post a total of 16 billion photos each day, Systrom said. Oh, and Instagram see’s over 1 billion ...

ScaleIO, an Israeli startup, has been purchased by EMC for a reported $200-$300 million. ScaleIO, a growing leader in enterprise data and elastic storage, being bought by EMC, one of the enterprise data giants, makes sense. What ScaleIO lacked in marketing for such a young start-up, it sure made up with software. Its flagship product is ...

The cloud is where compute and storage are going. The long-term benefits of cost savings, flexibility and power will win that argument every time. However, businesses are slow to change. Adding even more confusion to the puzzle is that moving your data, compute and storage to the cloud is a whole lot more complicated than flipping ...

Big Data’s out. The Industrial Internet is in. Contextualizing the promise of Big Data, this new trend around our buzzing, blinking connected devices, the Internet of Things, is expected to become big business. To support this up and coming market, we’ll need lateral cooperation across enterprise and consumer markets, bridging the mechanized systems and the ...

The last week has seen quite a few developments in the competitive landscape for the storage industry, clarifying the market positioning of nearly every major player in this space.  The horses are on the track, lined up for the ‘flash storage derby’, and all of the bets are in. Wikibon Founder and CTO David Floyer ...

At the Red had Summit 2013 yesterday, Hortonworks and Red Hat announced an engineering collaboration to advance open source big data community projects. The engineering partnership will be a collaboration effort on enabling more storage file systems to work with Apache Hadoop. In order to accelerate the enablement of the broader file system ecosystem being ...