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 at HP Big Data Conference 2015 in Boston, HP announced several new products, services, and developer programs that are aimed at helping businesses leverage big data and big data analytics. HP is announcing a new release of Vertica, code named Excavator, support for open technologies, and a new Haven Startup Accelerator program. These new
Samsung has announced they have started mass production of their 256Gb 3D V-NAND flash memory, which is based on 48 layers of 3-bit MLC arrays for use in SSDs. This comes soon after SanDisk’s similar announcement back on August 3rd of last week.
Toshiba has announced three distinct families of PCIe SSDs products, the BG1, XG3, and PX04P series of SSDs, all of which leverage the NVMe protocol. The new lines are targeted towards a variety of use cases and applications and are built to be optimized for high-performance and low latency all the while utilizing the PCIe
Today DataGravity announced its new data security and governance features, DataGravity Discovery Series V2. This new series combines functions of data security, search and discovery, and data protection into a single platform, available in three models the DG1100, DG2200 and DG2400. DataGravity Discovery Series V2 is aimed at helping companies with security at the point
Today Seagate Technology announced that it was expanded its Nytro line with three new products, Nytro XF1440 2.5”, Nytro XM1440 M.2 NVMe SSD, and the Nytro XP6500 Flash Accelerator Card. These new flash additions will extend Seagate’s flash products while working in conjunction with Seagate’s existing storage products.
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
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I recently had the chance to speak with Carbonite about a datacenter migration effort they undertook in late 2014. It’s important to understand that a datacenter migration is about more than the movement of software or data, but a true relocation effort for every of a datacenter to a new physical location. Given the recent
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