Mellanox acquires Voltaire; Growing data need boosts Q3 storage revenue

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	Mellanox acquires Voltaire Mellanox last week announced that it has acquired InfiniBand vendor Voltaire for $218 million, leaving two companies – Mellanox and QLogic in the InfiniBand space. Mellanox will pay $8.75 per share for Voltaire. Combined, the businesses will have 700 employees and a revenue of $217 million. Read More WEBCAST: IBM A Master Class in Master Data Management A successful business is able to increase revenue, reduce costs and adapt quickly to change. This online presentation explains how IBM® InfoSphere™ Master Data Management can help your organization be more competitive. See how it can better address your changing business requirements and deliver results quickly. Read Now In this Issue IDC: Growing data need boosts Q3 storage revenue Cisco, BMC co-develop cloud platform for service providers Mac of the future: storage Microsoft's dropped feature is Linux's gain Private cloud software available as free beta download WEBCAST: NeuStar, Inc. 10 Must-Do's for a Profitable Selling Season The e-tailing group will ensure your team is ready to realize your maximum share of holiday dollars by highlighting best practices drawn from the e-tailing group Mystery Shopping and Mindset of a Multi-Channel studies. Learn More IDC: Growing data need boosts Q3 storage revenue Disk storage revenue went up during the third quarter this year as companies invested more money in adding storage capacity to meet the explosion in data growth, IDC said on Thursday. Read More DOWNLOAD: Diskeeper Get Maximum I/O Performance on Virtual Servers V-locity 2 is only product that automatically optimizes virtual platform I/O bandwidth without causing resource conflicts between VMs. For Hyper-V and VMware ESX. Also eliminates "bloated" free space on thin/dynamic disks. Learn More Cisco, BMC co-develop cloud platform for service providers The Integrated Cloud Delivery Platform, jointly developed by Cisco and BMC, is aimed at eliminating many of the manual steps required to set up and provision cloud computing services. Read More WHITE PAPER: Brocade Multi-Site and Campus Area Wireless LANs Discover industry best practices that drive enterprise-class WLAN performance. Review this enlightening Aberdeen study that gives actionable recommendations on how to improve end-to-end network performance and cut multi-location WLAN budgets. Read now! Mac of the future: storage Over the last couple of years, we've seen the first 1TB portable hard drive, the rise of cloud-based storage services, and the first wave of consumer-friendly network-attached storage (NAS) hardware enter our homes. So what comes next? Here is what the storage vendors themselves have to say. Read More Microsoft's dropped feature is Linux's gain HP drops Windows Home Server in favor of WebOSCompanies usually spend time and money developing new and interesting features to drive upgrades, but Microsoft is taking a different approach with the "Vail" release of Windows Home Server (WHS): It's dropping the popular Drive Extender feature that lets users "pool" hard drives to increase storage. Read More Private cloud software available as free beta download A startup founded by the creator of Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud is now offering a free beta download of its software, which creates Amazon-like clouds behind the enterprise firewall. Read More
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