IBM announced today that it has a new strategic technology service with Anthem Inc. The deal is valued at $500 million USD and will run for the next five years. IBM will provide Anthem with operational services for their mainframe and data center server, as well as provide operation services for Anthem's storage infrastructure.
Continuing on with forward-looking predictions, the members of Active Archive Alliance (in this case members from Crossroads Systems, DataDirect networks, Fujifilm, and Qstar) shared their predictions on the upcoming trends for the year of 2015.
With the recent rebranding of their vCloud Hybrid service as vCloud Air, VMware continues in their effort to simplify the use of their Disaster Recovery solution, VMware vCloud Air Disaster Recovery, while providing extended capabilities to their service. VMware announced several service enhancements to their DR as well as announcing the general availability of vCloud Air Virtual Private Cloud
QNAP Systems has announced the release of their new 10GbE-ready TVS-x71U series Turbo vNAS, including the TVS-871U-RP and TVS-1271U-RP. The TVS-x71U series provide high performance, scalability, a wide selection of business applications, and are designed for mission-critical storage needs and with persistent throughput for resource-demanding applications. With an HDMI display, the new line allows users to
Netgear today announced details about new wireless access management, switching, and storage products which Netgear is positioning to provide scalability for mid-sized organizations. According to Netgear, the company’s ProSAFE M6100 switches, ProSAFE WC9500 wireless controllers, and the ReadyNAS 3130 series of appliances are focused on higher-density environments such as mid-sized business or school and medical
QNAP Systems has announced the availability of their business-class TVS-x71 series Turbo vNAS, which support 10GbE networks and provide a high-efficiency storage solution for 4K video playback, transcoding and on-the-fly editing. In addition, the TVS-x71 series features QvPC Technology, allowing it to be used as a cost-effective PC by giving users direct access to content
ExaGrid Systems Inc. has announced that it had double-digit growth from 2013 to 2014. For its fourth quarter revenue, the company had record bookings and was both cash and P&L positive in all four quarters of last year and for the entire year of 2014.
Today Synology launched two new RackStations, the RS815+ and the RS815RP+, as well as a new DiskStation, the DS2415+. These new additions to Synology’s lineup are aimed at small to medium businesses that are set to grow.
Unitrends has announced that the next generation of their Recovery-Series family of purpose-built backup appliances (PBBAs) is now available. The new portfolio includes 11 models that scale from 1TB to 97TB of raw storage and make cloud adoption much more affordable for companies of all sizes. With the release, Unitrends claims they are now the data-protection industry’s
In the never ending back-and-forth ULLtraDIMM suit, Netlist has announced that Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California denied a motion filed by Diablo Technologies on January 13, 2015, which requested that the Court stay the Preliminary Injunction against controller chips used by SanDisk in its
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