Proximal Data secures B Round of funding

Proximal Data has secured a $2 million series B round of funding, bringing its total funding to $5 million. Current investor Avalon Ventures is participating, with new investor Divergent Ventures leading the round. Divergent Ventures invests in early-stage companies with a focus on virtualization and storage and partners with them to help overcome market challenges.

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MapR teams with Canonical to deliver Hadoop on Ubuntu

MapR Technologies, Inc. and Canonical, the organization behind the Ubuntu operating system, have announced a partnership to package and make available for download an integrated offering of the MapR M3 Edition for Apache Hadoop with Ubuntu. Canonical and MapR are also working to develop a Juju Charm that can be used by OpenStack and other customers to easily deploy MapR into their environments.

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RING Digital Media Storage

Rich media libraries are expanding exponentially, as media outlets and platforms proliferate.

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Market forces behind Software Defined Storage create Channel opportunities

On the heels of its 15th anniversary and another year of record revenue growth, DataCore Software has announced the DataCore™ Premier Partner Program for the Americas. This expanded phase of the company’s global channel strategy is tailored for partners in the U.S., Canada, Latin America and the Caribbean seeking to capture the enormous opportunity in storage virtualization with the industry leading SANsymphony™-V.

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UK firms reject all-flash storage arrays, claims survey

Despite the hype, the widespread adoption of all-flash storage in the enterprise, especially consumer-grade all-flash arrays, appears highly unlikely anytime soon.

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American University of Kuwait transforms IT infrastructure

The American University of Kuwait (AUK) has selected EMC® and VMware virtualization and cloud infrastructure technologies to transform its IT infrastructure and help effectively manage its mission-critical applications, including Microsoft Exchange 2010, Oracle, Luminis Portal and LMS Moodle. AUK is using EMC VNX® unified storage with EMC FAST Suite™ and VMware® vSphere to better handle rapid business growth and improve response time for IT requests from staff and students.

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Why do so many IP replication solutions lack encryption capabilities, and why is performance an issue when you need to encrypt data inflight? Check out Brocade subject matter experts discussing the challenges of maintaining security while replicating data between data centers at high throughput, including how Brocade addresses this architecturally with IP Extension.

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