Today Scality announced it has raised another $45 million in Series D funding, bringing the total investment in the company to $80 million. This round of funding including a new investor in BroadBand Tower, Inc., existing investors such as Menlo Ventures, IDInvest, BPI France, Iris Capital, and Omnes Capital and Galileo Partners, and 65% of
SwiftStack today announced that companies are seeing cloud-like experiences when they combine SwiftStack Object Storage with private file sync and share applications. SwiftStack states that it is ideally suited for storing unstructured data privately in Enterprise data centers behind corporate firewalls. SwiftStack gives IT the control they need of data that is being stored in
Today Scality announced that it working with Dell to create new Software-Defined Storage (SDS) solutions that run on Dell’s hardware using Scality’s RING software. This collaboration means that Dell will now offer its PowerEdge Server, storage, and networking solutions based on RING software. This partnership gives enterprises all the benefits of Scality’s RING software (100% reliable,
Today Google Cloud Platform announced the general availability of two new data analytics products, Google Cloud Dataflow and Google Cloud Pub/Sub. These products will provide a unified programming model for data analysis, removing the need for batch and stream data sources while integrating applications and services and analyzes data streams in real time. Google is
Today Synology America Corp released the latest beta of its comprehensive surveillance application, Surveillance Station 7.1 beta. We previously reviewed Surveillance Station 7.0 and found it to have more than enough features for most users and was simple to install and use. This new beta release is designed to deliver optimized performance for environments with
Symantec Corp today announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement with an investor group led by the Carlyle Group to sell Veritas, Symantec’s information management business. Symantec and Veritas announced last October that they would be splitting into two independent companies. Symantec’s board of directors unanimously approved the transaction. The transaction is expected
Today U.S. Legal Support Inc., a leading provider of litigation services, announced that it switched its databases to a combination of ExaGrid disk-based backup systems and Veeam Backup and Replication to backup its VMware vSphere and Microsoft Hyper-V virtual environments. ExaGrid states that U.S. Legal Support sees 84% faster backup times and can now store its 116TB of data
Today Barracuda Networks Inc. launched its flexible and secure cloud file service for businesses, CudaDrive. CudaDrive enables users to share, store, and access corporate files in the Barracuda cloud from a multitude of devices while keeping the data secure at the endpoints. Organizations have the option to add an appliance enabling an easier transition from
Avere Systems announced that its Virtual FXT Edge filers are generally available on Google Cloud Platform. The collaboration between the two companies enables customers with compute heavy workloads and large data sets to easily move to Google Cloud Platform. Customers will also be able to keep data on existing on-premises infrastructure and won’t have to make any
Today Tintri Inc. announced that they have raised an additional $125 million in series F funding, bringing their total capital raised up to $260 million. This latest series of funding, series F, was lead by Silver Lake Kraftwerk along with existing investors Insight Venture Partners, Lightspeed Ventures, Menlo Ventures, and NEA. Tintri plans on using
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