Ixia to acquire Net Optics, Inc.

Ixia has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Net Optics, Inc. (Net Optics), a leading provider of total application and network visibility solutions. Under the terms of the agreement, Ixia will pay $190 million in cash, in a cash-free/debt-free transaction and subject to certain adjustments based on Net Optics’ net working capital at closing. The transaction is anticipated to close in the fourth quarter of 2013, and is subject to customary closing conditions and approvals.

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Asigra Cloud Backup Connector appliance now shipping in volume

Asigra Inc. has announced volume shipping of the company’s Cloud Backup Connector Appliance. The Asigra Cloud Backup Connector Appliance leverages the Cisco ISR G2 router and UCS E-Series server blade and includes the latest version of Asigra Cloud Backup™ software. The appliance provides onsite backup data storage and the ability to replicate to external cloud service providers at the user’s discretion for both local and remote recovery.

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SNIA Europe announces 2013-2015 Board of Directors

The Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) Europe has announced its new Board of Directors elected by its members for the 2013-2015 term. This group of nine IT industry experts will be accountable for the development of high-level tactics and the provision of guidance, direction and focus for the organisation’s activities across EMEA. Four directors hold the officer positions of chairman, vice chairman, secretary and treasurer. Other members of the Board are responsible for...

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Emulex and Brocade advance end-to-end Gen 5 Fibre Channel SAN capabilities

Emulex Corporation is working with Brocade, (NASDAQ: BRCD), the leader in data centre fabric networking solutions, to improve the reliability, availability, and manageability of Gen 5 Fibre Channel (FC) based storage area networks (SANs) in the enterprise data centre and the cloud. Specifically, Emulex and Brocade have worked together to integrate Brocade’s ClearLink diagnostics technology into Emulex LightPulse® Gen 5 FC Host Bus Adapters (HBAs).  

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Hunk: Splunk Analytics for Hadoop

Splunk Inc. has announced the next evolution of big data analytics with the general availability of Hunk™: Splunk Analytics for Hadoop. Hunk is a full-featured, integrated analytics platform for Hadoop that enables everyone in an organization to interactively explore, analyse and visualise historical data in Hadoop. Hunk is built on patent-pending virtual index technology that delivers powerful, self-serve analytics without the need for specialised programming skill sets, fixed schemas or...

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