Zetta, a provider of cloud storage solutions for enterprises, today announced that it has closed a $10.68 million Series A financing round led by venture capital firms Sigma Partners and Foundation Capital. Zetta plans [...]
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Amazon Web Services introduces EBS: Elastic Block Store
Amazon is betting heavily on software and services on the cloud. The company today launched the Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS), a new persistent storage feature for the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2). Amazon EC2 is an infrastructure service that provides resizable compute capacity in the cloud. With Amazon EBS, storage volumes can [...]
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Pig in the clouds!
HP, Intel Corporation and Yahoo! Inc. today announced the creation of a global, multi-data center, open source test bed for the advancement of cloud computing research and education. The goal of the initiative is to promote open collaboration among industry, academia and governments.
The HP, Intel and Yahoo! Cloud Computing Test Bed will provide a globally [...]
Parascale nets $11.37 million in Series A
Parascale, a cloud storage company for web 2.0 rich media content, has announced that it has closed an $11.37 million Series A financing round led by venture capital firms Charles River Ventures and Menlo Ventures.
Parascale plans to use the funding for product development and marketing initiatives in preparation for the launch of Parascale Cloud [...]
HP introduces 2-in-1 server
HP has introduced a first of a kind 2-in-1 server. The HP ProLiant BL2×220c server blade extends HP’s technology infrastructure portfolio aimed at “scale-out” computing and storage environments such as those used in cloud computing, Web 2.0 and high-performance computing deployments.
HP ProLiant BL2×220c server blade features include
Blade cage and 2 server blades that are identical [...]
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