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HOPKINTON, Mass., March 14, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- EMC (NYSE: EMC) today announced that INTTRA, a leading global provider of e-commerce solutions to the ocean freight industry, has selected the EMC Greenplum Data Computing Appliance (DCA) for its performance, scalability and portability, providing INTTRA OceanMetrics customers with powerful, real-time insights. Customer Benefits: Performance - With its massively parallel processing (MPP) architecture and the fastest data-loading...

SALT LAKE CITY, March 1, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Fusion-io (NYSE: FIO) announced today that load testing conducted by enterprise information protection provider Verdasys has delivered secure, scaled performance for Microsoft SQL Server. When equipped with Fusion ioMemory technology, Verdasys Digital Guardian Management Server scaled MS SQL Server from 250,000 to as many as two million users, offering a compelling data security platform for large enterprise and government organizations....

PORTLAND, Ore., Feb. 27, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- The Green Grid, the global IT industry's leading voice for advancing resource efficiency in data centers and business computing ecosystems, today released a case study detailing its industry best practices as they helped drive member company eBay to achieve new levels of energy efficiency in its recently completed data center in Phoenix, Ariz. eBay relied on The Green Grid's Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE(TM)) metric and Data Center...

PITTSBURGH, Feb. 27, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Avere Systems today announced that Digital Domain Productions, a digital production company that has delivered innovative visuals for more than 80 movies including Titanic, TRON: Legacy and Real Steel, with work that has earned multiple Academy Awards, has implemented Avere FXT Series NAS appliances at a Las Vegas co-location data center to maximize IOPS and minimize latency of its cloud-based infrastructure to ensure quick access to massive...

Software Engineer Instrumental in Scaling Facebook’s Hadoop Environment Brings Extensive Experience to Leading Infrastructure Management Software Company San Diego, CA (PRWEB) February 21, 2012 StackIQ, the Big Infrastructure Company, today announced that Dhruba Borthakur has been appointed to its Technical Advisory Board. Borthakur, a leading contributor to the Apache Hadoop Distributed File System open source project, will serve as advisor to the company’s product & engineering...

HOUSTON, Feb. 21, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- vCompute announced today that it has deployed and enabled a new vPOC (virtual point of compute) location consisting of thousands of cores in Houston, Texas. This new infrastructure is implemented to support continued demand for cloud and high performance computing resources. The new vPOC location consists of 1000's of cores and is a customized architecture to accommodate the latest industry requirements for virtualization and complex HPC...

WATERTOWN, Mass., Feb. 16, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Sanbolic®, the market leader in distributed data management, today announced that its Melio v3.5 software has been named the Storage System Software category Silver Winner in the prestigious SearchStorage.com and Storage magazine 2011 Products of the Year Award. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20110620/NE22418LOGO ) The 2011 Products of the Year Awards recognize the best storage products in the categories of backup and...

Massive scalability, centralized management, security, deduplication and real-time performance optimization extend Druva’s lead in enterprise endpoint protection. Mountain View, CA (PRWEB) February 09, 2012 Druva, a pioneer in enterprise endpoint data protection and retrieval, today announced that inSync Enterprise can now support five times more users per server (10,000 users, up from 2,000), thereby significantly increasing the scalability of each server. For on-premises deployments,...

BILLERICA, Mass., Feb. 8, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- VoltDB (www.voltdb.com), the leading provider of ultra-high throughput relational database systems (RDBMSs), today announced that it has been selected by SignMeUp.com (www.signmeup.com) as the database foundation for the company's portfolio of online solutions for event registration, membership management and charitable fundraising. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20120208/NE49125LOGO ) SignMeUp works with local clubs and...

SAN MATEO, Calif., Jan. 31, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- DataStax, the commercial leader in Apache Cassandra(TM) is offering the first Windows-based solution for non-production Cassandra development. The company recently polled its user-base and the Cassandra community to determine the most popular platforms used for development work and found that the vast majority used Mac and Windows as their primary development platform. (Logo:...