The Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) Europe has announced its new Board of Directors elected by its members for the 2013-2015 term. This group of nine IT industry experts will be accountable for the development of high-level tactics and the provision of guidance, direction and focus for the organisation’s activities across EMEA. Four directors hold the officer positions of chairman, vice chairman, secretary and treasurer. Other members of the Board are responsible for...
Read MoreTo better address the variety, variability and velocity of Big Data generated by science research, experiments, simulations and analyses, the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC) has upgraded its “scratch” storage for temporary scientific data to a single site-wide system with four petabytes of storage built on DataDirect Networks (DDN) Storage Fusion Architecture® (SFA) high-performance storage engine.
Read MoreAsigra Inc. has announced volume shipping of the company’s Cloud Backup Connector Appliance. The Asigra Cloud Backup Connector Appliance leverages the Cisco ISR G2 router and UCS E-Series server blade and includes the latest version of Asigra Cloud Backup™ software. The appliance provides onsite backup data storage and the ability to replicate to external cloud service providers at the user’s discretion for both local and remote recovery.
Read MoreIxia has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Net Optics, Inc. (Net Optics), a leading provider of total application and network visibility solutions. Under the terms of the agreement, Ixia will pay $190 million in cash, in a cash-free/debt-free transaction and subject to certain adjustments based on Net Optics’ net working capital at closing. The transaction is anticipated to close in the fourth quarter of 2013, and is subject to customary closing conditions and approvals.
Read MoreDelivers technology integration with FireEye to battle rising trend of targeted attacks.
Read MoreDuring next week’s OpenStack Summit in Hong Kong, Brocade will discuss and demonstrate its blueprint proposal to extend the advanced networking capabilities of the OpenStack Networking framework, Neutron. The Dynamic Network Resource Manager (DNRM) blueprint is intended to simplify the deployment and management of physical and virtual networking resources within cloud infrastructures.
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