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Riverbed SteelFusion Achieves EMC VSPEX Validation

May 7th, 2014 (0)

Riverbed Technology today announced Riverbed SteelFusion validation with the EMC VSPEX Proven Infrastructure, which offers an open integration approach that brings together best-in-class technologies to create and deliver flexible IT solutions for customers. SteelFusion’s validation with VSPEX allows joint customers to virtualize ...

EMC to Acquire DSSD

May 5th, 2014 (0)

EMC Corporation today announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire privately-held DSSD, Inc. Menlo Park-based DSSD is the developer of an innovative new rack-scale flash storage architecture for I/O-intensive in-memory databases and Big Data workloads like SAP ...

Intel Hires Steve Fund as New Chief Marketing Officer

May 5th, 2014 (0)

Intel Corporation today announced it has named Steven Fund, a senior industry executive with extensive brand and marketing experience managing and building some of the world's most recognizable brands, to the post of corporate vice president and Chief Marketing ...

Nutanix Introduces New VDI Program

May 1st, 2014 (0)

Nutanix today announced a comprehensive program that delivers simplicity and predictability to virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) management. With this initiative, Nutanix customers can purchase advanced web-scale infrastructure per desktop, and de-risk their VDI investment through the industry’s first and ...

McObject Releases Test Results for IMDS

May 1st, 2014 (0)

McObject today released lab results showcasing the higher speed and data durability attained deploying McObject eXtremeDB In-Memory Database System (IMDS) with EMC XtremSF server-based PCIe flash cards for transaction log storage. The McObject benchmark tests demonstrate the speed advantage of eXtremeDB ...

Mellanox Announces Collaboration with IBM

April 30th, 2014 (0)

Mellanox Technologies, Ltd. today announced a collaboration with IBM to deliver a high-performance infrastructure for NoSQL Databases and In-Memory Data Grids (IMDGs), utilizing IBM Power8-based systems and Mellanox 40GbE adapters and switches featuring RDMA over Converged Ethernet (RoCE). The ...

Red Hat to Acquire Inktank

April 30th, 2014 (0)

Red Hat, Inc. today announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Inktank. Inktank's flagship technology, Inktank Ceph Enterprise, delivers world class object and block storage software to enterprises deploying public or private clouds, including many early ...

Microsoft Announces 3rd Quarter Financial Results

April 25th, 2014 (0)

Microsoft Corp. today announced revenue of $20.40 billion for the quarter ended March 31, 2014. Gross margin, operating income, net income, and diluted earnings per share for the quarter were $14.46 billion, $6.97 billion, $5.66 billion, and $0.68 per ...

Dimension Data Acquires Nexus

April 24th, 2014 (0)

Dimension Data today announced that it has acquired 100 percent of Nexus for an undisclosed sum. Founded in 2004 and headquartered in Valencia, California, Nexus is a privately-owned provider of advanced IT solutions serving enterprises, mid-sized business and public sector ...

Microsoft Principal Architect Joins GenieDB

April 22nd, 2014 (0)

GenieDB today announced that it has appointed Matt Peebles to the position of Chief Architect to lead the product design of GenieDB's globally distributed MySQL service. With his database appliance leadership from DATAllegro and most recently as a Principal Architect ...