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Virtualization Startup Big Switch Networks Lands $13 Million in Funding
Big Switch Networks, a new company building a platform to bring the benefits of virtualization and cloud architecture to enterprise networks, announced April 28 that it secured $13.75 million in a Series A financing, led by Index Ventures and Khosla Ventures. Big Switch Networks also announced that it has joined the newly formed ONF, a…
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VMWare Buys Online Presentation Service SlideRocket
VMware on April 26 acquired a new whiz-bang feature to add to its growing stock of cloud-based products: SlideRocket, an online business-presentation service that competes directly against Microsoft PowerPoint and Adobe PDF. Terms of the transaction to purchase the 25-person, San Francisco-based company were not disclosed by VMware. SlideRocket, founded in 2007, is currently being…
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SMBs Can Benefit From Virtualized Disaster Recovery
While the first wave of virtualization has consolidated server hardware into virtual hosts and recognized significant savings in physical machines, small and midsized organizations must now consider the impact of this consolidation on their backup and disaster recovery plans, according to a report from QuorumSoft. By encapsulating workloads that can be shifted between physical hosts…
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Dell, VMWare Partner on Virtual Health Records Platform
Dell has rolled out its Mobile Clinical Computing platform, which runs Meditech’s electronic health record applications, as well as VMware’s Sphere and View virtual desktop infrastructure. Dell will provide hardware such as laptops or tablets for the MCC platform, while its partners provide the software, virtualization and security technology. Meditech has about a 30 percent…
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Ingram Micro: Half of VTN Members Selling Cloud
If you haven’t already noticed, the big word in the tech industry this year is "cloud." That was certainly in evidence this week at both the Synnex Varnex community event in Boston and at Ingram Micro’s VTN invitational community event in Chicago. These two distributors laid out cloud plans with an eye to becoming an…
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Dell Makes $1 Billion Investment in Cloud, Virtualization Infrastructure
Dell is investing $1 billion in its current fiscal year in new data centers, solution facilities and technologies designed to broaden its capabilities in such areas as cloud computing, virtualization and converged infrastructure. Dell’s strategy, announced April 7, includes building 10 new data centers over the next two years—which will be spread out around the…