Violin Memory has acquired GridIron Systems, a maker of SAN cache appliances. Speculators put the acquisition at $ 200 to $ 300 million, but the numbers don’t add up.
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Violin’s $200 Million Acquisition? Don’t Buy It
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Dell Demos 64-bit ARM-Based Server
Amid growing speculation that the company is on the verge of going private, Dell at last week’s Open Compute Summit in Santa Clara, Calif., unveiled a new server prototype that allows both 64-bit ARM processors to be installed on the same motherboard as traditional x86 chips. The company also demonstrated management software based on the Open Compute Project standard that allows both processer varieties to be remotely controlled from a single console.
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Three reasons Facebook Graph Search is good for business
Mark Zuckerberg unveiled a plan this week to make all of the Likes, check-ins, and photo tags on Facebook actually mean something with the launch of Graph Search. The service is in early beta, and is not yet widely available, but the concept has some valuable implications for businesses on Facebook.
Here are three ways that small and medium businesses can benefit from Facebook Graph Search:
1. Engagement
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Wouldn’t it be nice if you could always access your data from anywhere?
A business idea starts simply enough: You identify a need, and then you fill it. It seems that a number of innovative entrepreneurs have identified the need to access data from mobile devices no matter where it’s stored, and we’re seeing an explosion of solutions designed to address that need.
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11ac Does Not Equal 5G
A major wireless vendor wants to tag the forthcoming 802.11ac Wi-Fi standard as 5G, even though the G designation is traditionally associated with cellular networks. What gives?
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News Roundup: UC, Storage and Security
Cisco extends Jabber to virtual desktops; Core updates security testing software; Drobo enhances its storage series; Sourcefire launches incident response services; Fortinet expands its security appliance and switch lines.
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Storage Head-Scratchers
Not every idea that comes out of the storage industry is a good one. Here’s three developments in storage encryption, patents and holographic storage that have got me scratching my head.
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Fusion-io Pushes Data Centers Toward Flash Storage
The old phrase “Speed Kills” doesn’t apply to Silicon Valley, where speed is essential for survival in today’s tech industry. Speed is a way of life, or perhaps a way to avoid being run over.
“We live in a world where nobody likes to wait,” explained Gary Orenstein, Fusion-io’s senior VP of product, in a video interview with InformationWeek‘s Valley View recently. “Whether it’s the e-commerce that we conduct online, the content that we consume over the Internet, or simply sharing photos with friends. We all want everything to go faster.”
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Facebook Open Compute Project Shapes Big Data Hardware
Facebook and the Open Compute Project (OCP) announced Wednesday that they’ve made huge strides toward the goal of setting standards for the most efficient server, storage and data center hardware available for scalable computing.
Facebook launched OCP 18 months ago hoping to crowdsource the problem of creating better hardware for high-scale computing. From its start with one member, Facebook, and 200 participants, the group now has more than 50 member companies and saw more than 2,000 participants attend this week’s Open Compute Platform Summit in Santa Clara, Calif.
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