Druva has announced a new strategic alliance with Microsoft Azure that expands its presence into Microsoft’s public cloud and infrastructure platform. This new alliance is beneficial to Druva as it gives their customers more flexibility giving them more choice in infrastructure vendor and the options to better meet data storage, privacy, and security needs. The
CloudPhysics has released Exploration Mode, allowing administrators to identify the root causes of server issues by interactively revealing resource consumption patterns and environment changes over time. Exploration Mode is available as part of its analytics solution for VMware users.
Today Sphere 3D Corp announced that it has joined the Microsoft Enterprise Cloud Alliance Program. As part of the program Sphere 3D will utilize Microsoft Azure cloud computing platform to deliver virtual application, virtual desktop, and enterprise storage solutions.
In yet another October acquisition/integration announcement, Cisco has announced that it plans on acquiring ParStream. ParStream was part of the Cisco Entrepreneurs in Residence start up program. The ParStream team will be integrated into Cisco’s Data and Analytics Group. Currently, the acquisition it expected to close by the second fiscal quarter of 2016
Today Ravello Systems announced the cyber security company, LightCyber, is the latest to use Ravello’s security sandboxing in the cloud. This sandboxing allows companies to run hacker simulations on life-like user environments, but inside a secure capsule in the cloud.
At the OpenStack Summit in Tokyo, the Ceph Community announced it will help drive the direction of open source software-defined storage (SDS) technology through the formation of an advisory board. Working closely with with the community’s technical and user committees, the advisory board will attempt to expand and enhance community participation and collaboration for the
Today at Microsoft SQL Summit, SanDisk Corporation announced the latest version of FlashSoft, version 3.8. FlashSoft is SanDisk’s server-side, caching software that can accelerate performance 3 to 5 times. The latest version of the software now has updates for Microsoft Windows Server, Microsoft Hyper-V, and Linux.
Today at OpenWorld XtremIO introduced its efficient copy data management at the storage layer, integrated Copy Data Management (iCDM) in its All-Flash arrays. XtremIO’s announcement comes fresh on the heels of Actifio’s commissioned study showing that two-thirds of enterprises fail to meet best practices for copy data control. XtremIO states its new iCDM will reduce
Today Code42 launched its fifth-generation platform. The latest release strengthens the platform’s core endpoint backup and restore capabilities. 5.0 also delivers new tools that will enable companies to easily perform legal holds on end-user data and allows for faster migration while protecting data.
At the OpenStack Summit in Tokyo, FalconStor Software Inc. introduced an OpenStack Cinder Integration for its FreeStor intelligent software-defined platform. The integration is ideal for companies wanting to take full advantage of FreeStor within OpenStack.
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