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Pano Logic Scales Down VDI for SMBs
Virtual desktop infrastructure vendor Pano Logic debuted two new offerings today, Pano Express SMB and Pano Express HA. Express SMB and HA are scaled versions of Pano’s VDI in a box solution, designed specifically for small to medium-sized businesses. A single deployment can support up to 60 ‘power users,’ according to the company. John Kish, ...
Opera Solutions Lands Industry First with $84M for Big Data Innovation
Opera Solutions, a big data software maker (contrary to Opera Software, the developer of the web browser), just announced one of the biggest funding rounds in the history of this industry. The company secured $84 million in a first round of funding led by Silver Lake Sumeru, with participation from Accel-KKR, Invus Financial Advisors, JGE ...
Fusion-io Grows Partnerbase as Flash Storage Gains Traction
Solid-state SAN storage provider Kaminario has teamed up with Fusion-io, a company that sells flash-based storage acceleration solutions, to develop what it calls the Kaminario K2 storage, one of the industry’s first all solid-state SAN products. The company promises that this new technology is built to optimize the performance of heavy business applications. “The Kaminario K2 ...
Nirvanix Investor Lands Farah Giga, Grows Hardware Interest
IT VC firm Valhalla Ventures announced that it hired of Farah Giga, previously a strategy and business development manager at Hewlett-Packard. She will serve as a principal, focusing on enterprise hardware investments. At 28 Giga has quite a resume, which is what landed her the new job with the venture capital firm in the first ...
Cloud Security Forges Partnerships as Industry Bubbles with Opportunity
European end-point cybersecurity provider BullGuard turns to security firm Commtouch in a partnership designed to integrate the latter technology with BullGuard’s offerings. Specifically, Commtouch’s Anti-Spam and GlobalViewURL Filtering products will be included in BullGuard’s Internet Security 12, the latest version of its security suite that is set to hit the market this month. “After testing multiple solutions, we ...
Gluster Invests in Partnership Strategy, Teams with NAS Provider
Open-source storage software developer Gluster is growing, and expanding its partnerbase has proven to be a very effective strategy so far. The latest announcement from the company says it partnered up with Savage IO, a veteran-owned NAS network storage servers maker. The latter will be integrating Gluster’s GlusterFS platform into its data storage systems, which are ...
SAP Plans to Meet Revenue Expectations through Partnerships
Eric Duffaut, President SAP Global Ecosystem and Channels laid out in an interview given to Forbes just how his company plans to increase revenues from $17 billion in revenue in 2010 to $27.1 billion in 2015: making a lot of partnerships, and restructuring the existing ecosystem. New technologies such as the HANA analytics platform, mobile ...
E-Trade Makes the Right Trade for iPad, Android Tablets of the Week
This week E*TRADE Mobile Pro for iPad tops our tablet business apps roundup, followed by four other iPad and Android apps. The application developed by E*Trade Securities, an online broker that provides investing and stock trading across a number of markets, and lets existing account holders trade from their mobile app. E*Trade Mobile Pro for iPad The ...
10gen Raises $20M in Funding, Releases MongoDB v2.0
10gen, the sponsor of the NoSQL MongoDB open source, document-oriented database, had two major announcements today. One is a hefty round of funding, and the second is the launch of the second version of its offering. The company raised $20 million in a funding round led by Sequoia Capital, with participation from existing investors Flybridge ...
Permabit Unveils Albireo API: Dedupe Everywhere
Permabit, the company behind the industry-leading Albireo OEM embedded deduplication software, announced a new API today that will be made available to partners. The new API comes with a “Dedupe Everywhere” slogan, which is not too farfetched. Albireo can now be used in a much broader spectrum of deployments. “Originally built to address all block, ...
