This week’s News Bits we look at a number of small announcements, small in terms of the content, not the impact they have. Unisys launches CloudForte for Microsoft Azure. Actifio announces OEM agreement with IBM. Quantum unveils latest Xcellis appliance. vArmour raises $44 million in Series E funding. Quest Software joins Veeam Partner Program. Cisco completes acquisition of Luxtera. NetApp powers Ducati’s Data-Driven Team. Veritas achieves AWS Storage Competency status. Carbonite to acquire Webroot.
Unisys Launches CloudForte For Microsoft Azure
Unisys launched its managed service solution for government, CloudForte for Microsoft Azure. The main thrust of this service is to automate and accelerate digital transformation and the use of the cloud. Capabilities include:
Actifio Announces OEM Agreement With IBM
Actifio announced that it has entered an OEM agreement with IBM enabling the latter company to leverage Actifio’s patented Virtual Data Pipeline technology for its new IBM InfoSphere Virtual Data Pipeline (VDP) offering. The thrust of the new product that uses both technologies is to speed up the modernization, development and evolution of new data-driven applications within hybrid and multicloud environments.
Quantum Unveils Latest Xcellis Appliance
Quantum Corp. launched its latest Xcellis appliances powered by StorNext. This particular appliance is geared toward video workflows. The appliance leverages dual 8-core Intel Xeon CPU’s, 64 GB memory, SSD boot drives, and dual 100Gb Ethernet or 32 Gb Fibre Channel ports.
vArmour Raises $44 Million In Series E Funding
The API-drive cloud security company, vArmour announced that it has raised an additional $44 million in Series E funding. This round was lead by AllegisCyber and NightDragon, with participation from existing investors.
Quest Software Joins Veeam Partner Program
Quest Software announced that is has joined Veeam’s Alliance Partner Program. Quest is also announcing that is software-defined secondary storage platform, QoreStor, has been verified as a Veeam Ready Repository. This means users of Veeam Backup & Replication can now uses QoreStor as a backup repository, that the company states will reduce storage and accelerate backups.
Cisco Completes Acquisition Of Luxtera
Cisco completed yet another acquisition as it seemingly strives to buy up every company it can. This week it was the privately held company Luxtera, Inc. Cisco will integrate Luxtera’s semiconductor technology into its networking portfolio.
NetApp Powers Ducati’s Data-Driven Team
NetApp has renewed its official sponsorship of the Ducati Team in the 2019 MotoGP World Championship. The partnership includes:
Veritas Achieves AWS Storage Competency Status
Veritas Technologies announced that its two main products, Veritas NetBackup and Veritas Backup Exec, have attained Amazon Web Services (AWS) Storage Competency status. Veritas states that both NetBackup and Backup Exec now support multiple AWS storage classes, including Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), Amazon S3 Standard-Infrequent Access (Amazon S3 Standard-IA), and Amazon Glacier. The company has also developed new long-term retention (LTR) products that are available in the AWS Solution Space. They include:
Carbonite To Acquire Webroot
Carbonite announced that it intends to acquire the cybersecurity company, Webroot Inc. The dollar amount is $615.8 million, making it Carbonite’s largest acquisition to date. The combined technology will address endpoint vulnerabilities.
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