Goodbye QLogic, hello Nirvanix

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	Goodbye QLogic, hello Nirvanix Nirnanix, a cloud service provider, announced today that it has hired a new CEO and brought in new funding. The company hired Scott Genereaux, formerly senior vice president of sales and marketing at QLogic as CEO. And it added $10 million to its funding for a total of $33 million from Intel Capital, Valhalla Partners,Windward Ventures and Mission Ventures. Read More VIRTUAL EVENT: Oracle Oracle Exadata Online Forum Extreme Performance. Lowest Cost. Join us for the Oracle Exadata Online Forum on Tuesday, November 16th at 9:00am (PST) where Oracle executives, customers, and industry experts come together to share what extreme performance really means for your business. Product experts will be available to chat live throughout the event. Attend the Oracle Exadata Online Forum In this Issue Panasas upgrades its HPC storage system, doubles throughput Five ways to successfully manage dynamic storage infrastructures NetApp releases flurry of hardware, OS upgrades WEBCAST: Iron Mountain 4 Proven Methods to Reduce Your Backup Costs Explore four unique case studies in which Iron Mountain has helped customers better understand – and take control of – their growing data problems while significantly reducing their mounting backup costs; the answer isn't "more backup." View now Panasas upgrades its HPC storage system, doubles throughput Panasas today announced the next version of its ActiveStor 12 clustered storage array, with twice the throughput of its predecessor and up to 4 petabytes of storage in a 10-rack architecture. Read More WHITE PAPER: ArcSight Building a Successful Security Operations Center This paper outlines industry best practices for building and maturing a security operations center (SOC). For those organizations planning to build a SOC or those organizations hoping to improve their existing SOC this paper will outline the typical mission parameters, the business case, people considerations, processes and procedures, as well as, the technology involved. Building a Successful Security Operations Center Five ways to successfully manage dynamic storage infrastructures Don't look now, but the data center is transforming. Seeking greater efficiencies, enterprises of all sizes have steadily evolved from application-based silos to virtualized environments. Now this evolution is taking the next leap forward as innovative enterprises move toward next-generation cloud computing models that deliver IT as a service (ITaaS) -- via both internal and external cloud services. Read More WHITE PAPER: Iron Mountain Backing Up Your Servers: Why It's Essential Read this white paper to examine the setbacks of traditional backup, gain a better understanding of online backup, and discover why Iron Mountain's LiveVault solution for automated server backup and recovery won the 2006 award for Best Storage Software Solution from the Software and Information Industry Association. Read now. NetApp releases flurry of hardware, OS upgrades NetApp today announced hardware upgrades to its entire line of Fabric-Attached Storage (FAS) arrays, as well as new features and functionality to its Data ONTAP 8 operating system. Read More
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