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Data Protection  ◇  Enterprise

Rubrik Aims To Shake Up the Backup and Recovery Industry

Today Rubrik announced $10 million in Series A funding from investors such as Lightspeed Venture Partners, John W. Thompson, Frank Slootman, and Mark Leslie. Rubrik’s aim is to offer live data access for recovery and application development. Rubrik will use enterprise data management with web-scale IT, to eliminate backup software through what they are referring to as a

Enterprise  ◇  Software

EMC Federation Announces Federation Business Data Lake

Today the EMC Federation announced a new hardware and software solution that enables businesses to deploy big data at scale, quickly and securely, across the enterprise, the Federation Business Data Lake (FBDL). The Federation consists of EMC Information Infrastructure (EMC II), VMware, Pivotal, VCE, and RSA. The Data Lake is a new solution from EMC,

Enterprise  ◇  In the Lab

In The Lab: Dell UltraSharp 32″ 4K Monitor

The Dell UltraSharp 32 Ultra HD Monitor (UP3214Q) is designed for video editing, animation, application and game development as well as other use cases where having fine detail on your monitor is imperative. With a native resolution of 3840 x 2160, four times as much space as 1080p, the UP3214Q has exceedingly high pixel-density, allowing us

Enterprise  ◇  Software

Amazon Elastic Block Storage Now Available With 16TB And 20,000 IOPS

Amazon.com had previously  announced that they were enhancing their Elastic Block Storage (EBS) with SSDs last year. Amazon just announced that that in addition to the SSD enhancements, users can now choose between a Provisioned IOPS SSD volumes with 16TB of capacity, can process up to 20,000 IOPS, and has a maximum throughput of 320MB/s and General Purpose SSD

Dell Unveils Precision Virtual Workstation Appliance For Wyse

Today Dell Inc. announced the industry’s first ISV-certified virtual workstation appliance solution, Dell Precision Appliance for Wyse. This new appliance is aimed at a variety of organizations from media and entertainment to exploration and energy industries to engineering firms. These organizations and others can now utilize workstation-class computing virtually without compromising on user experience or

Nutanix Launches Nutanix Platform Expert Certification Program

Nutanix today announced a new hyper-converged enterprise certification, the Nutanix Platform Expert (NPX) certification, which will serve as the company’s flagship educational program. NPX focuses on web-scale technology, hyper-convergence, and multi-hypervisor theory in order to provide a pathway for datacenters and cloud service providers to identify new talent.

Enterprise  ◇  SSD

Condusiv Releases Real-Time SAN Fragmentation Preventer

Today Condusiv Technologies (formally known as Diskeeper Corporation) announced the release of the industry’s first real-time fragmentation solution for SAN storage systems connected to physical servers, Diskeeper 15 Server. Diskeeper is designed to improve performance of both servers and physical storage.

Accessories  ◇  Consumer

Toshiba Announces 6TB Capacities for Internal and External Drives

Toshiba’s Digital Products Division has announced a 6TB capacity model for both the Toshiba Canvio Desk 3.5” External USB 3.0 Hard Drive and Toshiba Desk 3.5” Internal Serial ATA 3.0 Hard Drive lines. The Canvio Desk is a compact desktop external storage solution designed for home and office users looking to expand their storage and protect their digital assets.

Enterprise  ◇  Enterprise Storage

HP Announces Scalable, High-Performance Offerings For Midsized Companies

Today HP announced new cost effective, storage offerings aimed at midsized companies. The new offerings include a new HP MSA Storage, a new HP StoreVirtual Storage system, a more scalable HP StoreOnce Backup, and a new HP StoreEasy Storage file serving appliance. These new offerings will enable midsized and SMB to increase performance while minimizing