Today IBM announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Cleversafe Inc. later this year. Cleversafe being a lead developer and manufacturer of object-based storage software and appliances will strength IBM’s position in storage and hybrid clouds. Once the deal is completed, Cleversafe will be integrated into IBM’s Cloud business. Financial terms
WinMagic Survey Reveals Potential Problems In Cloud Storage
Today WinMagic Inc. revealed the results of a survey, conducted by CensusWide, showing that several UK companies are potentially vulnerable to cyber attacks and data breaches due to employee use of cloud storage. The survey was of 1,000 offices with at least 50 employees. The survey found widespread employee use of cloud storage services that
Microsoft To Offer NVIDIA GPU Graphics In Azure
Today NVIDIA announced that Microsoft would be offering its GPU-enabled professional graphics applications and accelerated computing capabilities to enterprise customers through Microsoft Azure, Microsoft’s cloud platform. Azure is the first cloud-computing platform to provide NVIDIA GRID 2.0 virtualized graphics for its customers. The partnership between the companies aims to deliver accelerated graphics and high performance computing to
Google Releases Cloud Dataproc In Beta
Google has announced yet another new cloud technology within its Cloud Platform line, Google Cloud Dataproc. This new cloud technology is aimed at making Hadoop and Spark easier to deploy and manage within Google Cloud Platform. Much like the recent announcement from Dell and Cloudera, this technology allows the use of Hadoop without the high costs
Dell, Cloudera, & Syncsort Partner To Simplify Hadoop For New Users
Today Dell announced that it was partnering with Cloudera and Syncsort to create a new solution for Hadoop. The new solution is aimed at streamlining the extract, transform, and load (ETL) process. ETL is the process of planning, design, construction and deployment process of transforming data into a ready state for analysis, then loading it
SolarWinds Storage Resource Monitor Supports More Vendors
SolarWinds announced that its Storage Resource Monitor (SRM) now supports even more vendors, bringing the total amount of array families supported up to 17. SolarWinds SRM now supports EMC, Hitachi, HP and IBM storage array families and provides monitoring capabilities for hierarchical storage pools. With the addition of these new vendors, SolarWinds states that they
HP Announces General Availability of CloudSystem 9.0 & Introduces ConvergedSystem 700
Today HP announced the general availability of the latest version of its integrated enterprise cloud solution, Helion CloudSystem 9.0. Along with the software update, HP is also introducing a new platform optimized for CloudSystem 9.0, the HP ConvergedSystem 700.
CTERA & HP Cloud Platforms Integrate
Today CTERA Networks announced that it has integrated its Enterprise File Services Platform with HP’s Cloud Service Automation (CSA). This integration enables IT to automate the deployment and management of enterprise file services across a hybrid cloud delivery model and enables IT-as-a-Service (ITaaS) delivery of enterprise file services.
Nexenta Announces Plan To Integrate Containers With Its OpenSDS
Today Nexenta announced its strategy to bring its Open Software Defined Storage to container-based cloud-native application deployments. Nexenta will be integrating its NexentaEdge Software-Defined Storage solution with container technology. Nexenta states it will embrace microservice architectures to provide a high performance, enterprise-grade storage foundation for could-native applications.
Cloudian Releases HyperStore 5.2 & Adds Forever Live Appliances
Cloudian Inc. announced the release of the latest version of HyperStore software, version 5.2, and they announced new physical appliances, the forever live FL3000 appliances. The new forever live appliances can start off small and scale to hundreds of petabytes as the needs increase. The appliances offer up to 3.8PB per rack.




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