PernixData raises $35m in Series C financing

PernixData has raised $35 million in Series C funding. Menlo Ventures led the oversubscribed round, which also included new individual investments from Marc Benioff (chairman and CEO of salesforce.com), Jim Davidson (Co-Founder, Managing Partner and Managing Director at Silver Lake), and Steve Luczo (chairman and CEO of Seagate Technology). Previous investors Kleiner Perkins Caulfield and Byers, Lightspeed Ventures, Lane Bess, Mark Leslie and John Thompson also contributed to the Series C...

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All-Flash performance at half the cost of SAN storage

Atlantis Computing has announced the release of Atlantis USX™ 2.0, a software-defined storage platform that delivers all-flash performance at half the cost of SAN. The new release powers the first all-flash hyper-converged storage system, adds a groundbreaking new technology that allows enterprises to Teleport virtual machines between datacentres and the cloud in seconds, and offers VMware VVOL support for any storage system.

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Red Hat introduces Open Virtual Appliance

New virtual appliance for Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform gives users hands-on experience with Red Hat’s enterprise-ready OpenStack platform.

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Is IT ready to fully embrace cloud apps and services?

Cloud apps and services continue to gain traction in North American enterprises with both business users and IT departments, but big obstacles still remain for U.S. businesses according to new research. These challenges include a lack of confidence about service performance and availability, changing roles for IT professionals in organizations that adopt cloud apps and services, and continuing concerns about data security.

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Disability Rights Texas relies on a DataCore Virtual SAN and Hyper-V

Disability Rights Texas (DRTx), a non-profit legal and protection advocacy agency based out of Austin, Texas, has attained a new level of agility and productivity by going virtual and software-defined with DataCore and Microsoft Hyper-V. DRTx started out on its virtualization journey by successfully implementing a redundant pair of DataCore SANsymphony-V software empowered “nodes” (SAN 1 and SAN 2) in Austin. DRTx leveraged the storage virtualization and synchronously mirroring...

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Cloud computing ensures firms of all sizes can remain commercially competitive

Investment in IT and adoption of innovative cloud services is critical to staying competitive with new entrants to the market and increasing commercialisation, according to Richard Roebuck, managing director of specialist legal IT provider Accesspoint. A recent report compiled by legal IT specialists Accesspoint and secure cloud service provider Databarracks discusses how firms have begun to adopt business practices more typically seen in limited companies.

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Lenovo ThinkShield included in data center solutions, extending security to all dimensions of data...
Consolidates products and simplifies cloud offering for commercial customers.
Creating environments for data to thrive, Western Digital has disclosed that Dropbox Inc. has...
Dropsuite’s backup and data protection suite delivers a last line of defense against ransomware...
North Devon Council needs to ensure the safety of its data and must have a DR plan in place that...
AWE benefiting from new end-to-end IBM Spectrum Scale and POWER8 systems.
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Technical Discussion: Encryption and Security at High Speed over Distance for IP Storage

Why do so many IP replication solutions lack encryption capabilities, and why is performance an issue when you need to encrypt data inflight? Check out Brocade subject matter experts discussing the challenges of maintaining security while replicating data between data centers at high throughput, including how Brocade addresses this architecturally with IP Extension.

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