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Another storage-virtualization firm raises US$20m

Announcement: Atlantis Computing gets funds for further expansion
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Atlantis Computing, vendor of data center storage optimization solutions, announced the completion of a US$20m financing round led by new investor Adams Street Partners.

 

Previous investors Cisco Systems, El Dorado Ventures and Partech International also participated in the Series D financing. The funds will be used to support the company’s worldwide expansion.

 

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Storage virtualization start-up PernixData raises US$20m

Announcement: Technology decouples storage performance and capacity
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PernixData, a start-up selling a scale-out storage platform that virtualizes server-side flash, announced the close of a US$20m funding round.

 

Company’s second, the round was led by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers (KPCB) with additional support from existing investors Lightspeed Venture Partners and a group of individual investors. Matt Murphy, general partner at KPCB, has joined the company’s board of directors.

 

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Open-source community deploys ARM microserver cluster

Announcement: Red Hat-sponsored Fedora Project now running on Calxeda-based cluster
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Calxeda’s ARM-based EnergyCore System-on-Chip, used in Boston’s Viridis microservers

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Calxeda, maker of ARM server-on-chip (SoC) cards, announced that the Fedora Project, an open-source development community sponsored by Red Hat, has deployed servers with its EnergyCore SoCs inside. The cluster consists of Viridis mircoservers made by a UK company called Boston.

 

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Oracle opens UK data center in Equinix Slough

Data center will serve Government G-Cloud provision

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HP upgrades data center automation software

Announcement: Operations, server, database, middleware and cloud automation tools upgraded

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Open Compute takes on the data center switch

Uses new open forum approach for setting the references for a new disaggregated switch to speed integration

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Cloudfounders takes hybrid approach to software-defined storage

Telcos and service providers first to test the new solution in open Beta that combines storage functionality for the Cloud

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CGI gets US$40m contract to modernize California voting system

Announcement: Service provider to centralize voter-information database

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EMC World: EMC unveils ViPR, its software-defined-storage play

Software platform does to storage what hypervisors do to physical servers
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As its biggest announcement at this year’s EMC World conference in Las Vegas, storage giant EMC unveiled ViPR, its software-defined-storage play, on Monday.

 

Simply put, ViPR does to storage what hypervisors by EMC’s VMware, or Citrix and Microsoft, do to physical servers. It is a software control layer that abstracts physical storage underneath and creates virtual storage pools users can allocate to applications.

 

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