Today Cisco announced its fourth quarter earnings as well as its fiscal year earnings. Unlike much of the other earnings reporting we do here, Cisco is looking pretty good in terms of numbers from the previous year’s earning reports. Though their numbers aren’t bad they are announcing a restructuring plan that will costs roughly 5,500
Today Google Cloud Platform announced that several of is database storage products, that were formally in beta, are now generally available. The products that are now generally available include Cloud SQL Second Generation, Cloud Bigtable, and Cloud Datastore. Not only are these products now generally available they are also covered by corresponding Service Level Agreements (SLAs).
Coho Data has announced DataStream 2.8, the latest version of the software that powers their arrays and helps to promote Software-Defined Data Center (SDDC). DataStream 2.8, which was previously updated just a few months ago, adds features that help enterprises set up a private cloud on-premise with a focus on reducing TCO. Coho adds that
Today Rubrik announced the world’s first cloud data management platform, Rubrik Firefly. Companies that leverage clouds will now be able to manage this service for data protection, search and analytics, archiving and compliance, and copy data management capabilities across all workloads. Rubrik is also announcing today that they have raised an additional $61 million in
Back in January Citrix made several announcements at its Citrix Synergy Summit. Most of these announcements focuses on the release of XenApp 7.7 and XenDesktop 7.7, however the company touched on both its expanded partnership with Microsoft and its comprehensive Citrix Cloud strategy. Now Citrix is working with Microsoft to develop of next-generation of the
Today Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) announced new solutions aimed at modernizing small and midsized businesses’ (SMBs) IT. HPE is introducing cost-effective, sub $10K, hybrid flash and software-defined storage platforms that can bring enterprise capacity and capabilities to SMBs. To help SMBs take full advantage of what is available HPE is releasing StoreVirtual 3200 storage systems,
It’s an oft-repeated and widely accepted notion that IT administrators in the enterprise are being asked to do more all the time, without additional resources. Perhaps nowhere is this notion more prevalent than at The Watershed, based in Delray Beach, Florida, where a team of just three handle the infrastructure needs for a highly mobile,
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) is stepping up its HPC game through a definitive agreement to acquire SGI, a global leader in high-performance solutions for compute, data analytics and data management. The acquisition is reported as being for $7.75 per share in cash, a transaction valued at approximately $275 million, net of cash and debt. HPE
If you have a cursory understanding of storage technologies, odds are you know that hard disk drives and solid state drives are not the same. While we can spend hours scrutinizing and debating the distinctions between a pair of SSDs, nearly everyone knows the differences between HDDs and SSDs in broad strokes. Hard drives are
Synology has announced two new high-performing NAS solutions, the RackStation RS3617xs and RS816. Robust and scalable, the RS3617xs is designed to provide greater agility and higher efficiency to support large-scale businesses, while the RS816 is a compact 1U 4-bay server rackmount server built for growing businesses.
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