Proximal Data secures B Round of funding

Proximal Data has secured a $2 million series B round of funding, bringing its total funding to $5 million. Current investor Avalon Ventures is participating, with new investor Divergent Ventures leading the round. Divergent Ventures invests in early-stage companies with a focus on virtualization and storage and partners with them to help overcome market challenges.

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MapR teams with Canonical to deliver Hadoop on Ubuntu

MapR Technologies, Inc. and Canonical, the organization behind the Ubuntu operating system, have announced a partnership to package and make available for download an integrated offering of the MapR M3 Edition for Apache Hadoop with Ubuntu. Canonical and MapR are also working to develop a Juju Charm that can be used by OpenStack and other customers to easily deploy MapR into their environments.

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RING Digital Media Storage

Rich media libraries are expanding exponentially, as media outlets and platforms proliferate.

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UK firms reject all-flash storage arrays, claims survey

Despite the hype, the widespread adoption of all-flash storage in the enterprise, especially consumer-grade all-flash arrays, appears highly unlikely anytime soon.

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American University of Kuwait transforms IT infrastructure

The American University of Kuwait (AUK) has selected EMC® and VMware virtualization and cloud infrastructure technologies to transform its IT infrastructure and help effectively manage its mission-critical applications, including Microsoft Exchange 2010, Oracle, Luminis Portal and LMS Moodle. AUK is using EMC VNX® unified storage with EMC FAST Suite™ and VMware® vSphere to better handle rapid business growth and improve response time for IT requests from staff and students.

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Helping organisations capitalise on Big Data

HP has announced a complete next-generation data warehouse platform that enables businesses to solve complex information challenges and make more informed decisions while reducing cost and accelerating growth.

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