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NetApp Introduces Unified Scale-Out Storage Systems
February 19th, 2014
With more organizations embracing cloud mandates and moving quickly to flash-accelerated, shared storage infrastructures, NetApp introduced today a new line of enterprise storage systems and enhanced software designed to accelerate the broadest range of virtualized applications. The new NetApp FAS8000 series ...
Mellanox Introduces CloudX Platform
February 18th, 2014
Mellanox Technologies, Ltd. today announced CloudX, a reference architecture for building efficient cloud platforms. CloudX is based on the Mellanox OpenCloud architecture which leverages off-the-shelf components of servers, storage, interconnect and software to form flexible and cost-effective public, private and ...
Tintri Raises $75M in Funding
February 13th, 2014
Tintri, Inc. today announced it has closed an oversubscribed $75 million Series E funding round led by Insight Venture Partners, with participation from existing investors Lightspeed Venture, Menlo Ventures and NEA. The new funding brings the company’s total capital ...
IBM Unveils Power Development Platform
February 12th, 2014
IBM unveiled an application development cloud called the IBM Power Development Platform, providing software developers with no-charge access over the cloud to IBM Power Systems servers to build, port and test applications. IBM expects the new resource will be of particular interest to Linux developers, many of ...
New Members Join Linux Foundation
February 11th, 2014
The Linux Foundation today announced that Autonomic Resources, Bloombase, BlueCat Networks, op5, Proxmox Server Solutions GmbH, Scale Computing and 6WIND are joining the organization. Representing a variety of cloud-enabling technologies, The Linux Foundation’s newest members will maximize their investments ...
Lanham Napier Retires as CEO of Rackspace
February 11th, 2014
Rackspace Hosting today announced that Lanham Napier retired from the company as Chief Executive Officer and as a member of the Board of Directors. Graham Weston, Rackspace’s co-founder and Executive Chairman of the Board of Directors, has been appointed ...
Cloudwick Verifies Nebula Interoperability with AWS and Rackspace
February 10th, 2014
Nebula today announced that Cloudwick Labs has confirmed that Nebula delivers Cassandra workloads to span multiple data centers and validates multi-site hybrid cloud interoperability with Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Rackspace. Apache Cassandra, the open source NoSQL database technology, ...
Carpathia and Altiscale Partner
February 10th, 2014
Carpathia today announced a partnership with Altiscale. The strategic partnership delivers Hadoop-as-a-Service (HaaS) to enterprises, government agencies and global Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) providers looking for more powerful and cost-effective access to large-scale data processing capabilities. Through the partnership, the Altiscale Data ...
Mellanox Makes Ethernet NICs for Microsoft OCP Servers
February 10th, 2014
Mellanox Technologies, Ltd. today announced 10 and 40GbE NIC support for the Microsoft OCP server and storage specification which are based on hardware used to power Microsoft's global cloud services, including Windows Azure, Bing, and Office 365. Available now, the ...
IBM Adds Data Virtualization Solutions to Cloud Portfolio
February 4th, 2014
IBM today announced a new data virtualization service for its portfolio of cloud-based enterprise offerings. The new service – IBM SmartCloud Data Virtualization (SCDV) – will enable customers to decouple their application data from their physical infrastructure, improving business resiliency, agility, and the ability to ...