Scale Computing, the leading provider of seamlessly integrated IT infrastructure for small to medium-sized organizations, today announced it has closed $12 million in Series D funding, led by Heron Capital Venture Fund. Reservoir Venture Partners also contributed to this round as a new investor to Scale, joining existing investors who also contributed to Series D, including: Allos Ventures, CID Equity Capital, Spring Mill Venture Fund, Northgate Capital, Benchmark Capital Partners and Scale Venture Partners. Funding will be used to further accelerate the growth of HC³ (Scale’s new ‘datacenter-in-a-box’ product), continued product development and the launch of a new partner program later this year.

“Scale Computing is at the forefront of virtualization hyperconvergence,” said Bill Gurley, partner at Benchmark Capital, a Silicon Valley venture capital firm in Menlo Park, CA. “Scale is able to remove both the complexity and cost of CPU/storage virtualization with their HC³ product. The hypervisor isn’t merely commoditized—it elegantly disappears inside the intuitively simple interface.”

Scale is also reporting record results for its third quarter, ending September 30, 2012 (Q3’12). Highlights of Q3’12 include:

• Sixty-five percent of new Q3 pipeline from HC³ opportunities
• Pipeline growth for HC³ was 100 percent over Q2’2012
• HC³ represented 50 percent of Q3 sales

“The launch of HC³ earlier this quarter has already had a significant impact on our company growth and overall sales pipeline,” said Jeff Ready, CEO of Scale Computing. “We are just four weeks removed from the launch date, and we are already approaching 100 HC³ deployments. There is a huge opportunity unfolding for us here in the midmarket with over one million companies in the US looking to virtualize for the first time. HC³ offers them an alternative to being locked down by EMC and VMware by providing a product that eliminates ongoing licensing fees for the hypervisor, leverages open source technologies, and simplifies support with a single vendor. Early feedback has been outstanding, with some users reporting that HC³ takes as little as one-tenth the effort to set up and manage compared to traditional infrastructures, and with a 75 percent cost savings. Convergence is the macro-trend in IT, and we will continue to lead the way toward the hyperconverged world as we further develop HC³ and release new product features.”

Unprecedented European growth of 410 percent in 2011 generates industry recognition

Nexenta Systems, the world’s leading provider of OpenStorage solutions for the enterprise, has won ‘Most Improved Company of the Year’ at the Network Computing Awards. It also was runner up in the ‘New Product of the Year’ category with its flagship OpenStorage platform NexentaStor 3.1.

Now in its fifth year, the awards, which are hosted by the UK’s Network Computing Magazine, were presented at a ceremony on 22nd March at Hotel Russell, London.The awards recognise the hardware, software, services, and the companies behind them, which have most impressed the readers of the UK’s longest established computer networking publication.

Nexenta System’s Proven Virtual Storage Appliance Helps Streamline Desktop Deployments for VMware Cloud Infrastructure Customers

Nexenta® Systems, the world leader in OpenStorage solutions, today announced that NexentaVSA for VMware View™ has received certification from VMware’s Rapid Desktop Program, and is certified for deployment on any industry standard hardware. This enables Nexenta to further streamline and accelerate virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) deployments while lowering total cost of ownership (TCO).

OpenStorage Leader Unveils Solution at the Nexenta OpenStorage Summit EMEA 2012

Nexenta® Systems, a world leader in OpenStorage solutions, today at the start of its OpenStorage Summit EMEA, announced the official release of NexentaVSA for View, a breakthrough solution that expands Nexenta’s proven ZFS-based storage software into virtualized desktop environments. A result of Nexenta’s strategic partnership with VMware, NexentaVSA for View simplifies the process of configuring and deploying virtual desktops -- dramatically reducing the storage and management costs that hinder VDI adoption.

The world's largest in-memory system for data-intensive problems

SGI, the trusted leader in technical computing, today announced the availability of the new SGI® UV™ 2 product family. SGI UV 2 doubles the number of cores (up to 4096 cores) and quadruples the amount of coherent main memory (up to 64 terabytes) from the previous generation, available for in-memory computing in a single-image system. SGI UV 2 can scale to eight petabytes of shared memory and at a peak I/O rate of four terabytes per second (14 PB/hour), it could ingest the entire contents of the U.S. Library of Congress print collection in less than three seconds. This unprecedented capability enables users to find answers to the world's most difficult problems on a system as easy to administer as a workstation. Built on industry standards and supporting a wide range of storage options, SGI UV 2 offers a complete solution for no-limit computing.

Decade of Strong Technology Collaboration Continues to Raise the Bar with World Record Benchmarks

SGI, the trusted leader in technical computing, today announced full support for the newest Intel® Xeon® processor E5-2400 and E5-4600 product families. With a strong relationship and over ten years of technology collaboration resulting in numerous innovative high performance computing advancements, SGI is incorporating the newest Intel® Xeon® processor E5-4600 into SGI's future shared memory platforms with many new, unique capabilities. The Intel® Xeon® processor E5-2400 is now the base processor in the SGI Hadoop Starter Kits and is available in the SGI® Rackable™ product line for use in other applications.

"Intel's decade-long close collaboration with SGI has resulted in countless improvements in performance and power efficiency of HPC solutions being employed by many of the world's leading research facilities and businesses," said Raj Hazra, IAG vice president and general manager Technical Computing Group, Intel. "SGI has taken advantage of Intel's new Xeon processors to deliver highly differentiated products with unprecedented speed and scale for applications ranging from HPC to business intelligence and data warehousing, including Big Data, Simulation, Analytics and beyond."

Introduction of SGI® NAS to Deliver Flexibility and Scalability without Compromise

SGI (NASDAQ: SGI), the trusted leader in technical computing, today announced the introduction of SGI® NAS, a powerful, no-compromise, full-featured enterprise-class open storage solution that delivers maximum flexibility to IT managers who must master the challenges of inexorable data growth. As the first fully integrated solution in the SGI Modular InfiniteStorage™ product family, SGI NAS provides organizations with a full-featured platform that can start small and yet scale to multiple petabytes of unified storage according to business demands. This storage solution supports advanced enterprise architecture from virtualization to the complete lifecycle of data -from creation to archive - with a minimum of datacenter real estate.

Nexenta Systems, the world leader in OpenStorage solutions, today announced it finished the 2011 fiscal year with record results. Nexenta announced that sales were up by 400 percent from 2010, it added a slate of seasoned executives to its management ranks and bolstered its more than 4,000-member customer list with some widely known names.

Nexenta more than doubled its staff in 2011 and added brand name customers, including the U.S. Army, Cisco Systems, U.S. Department of Homeland Security, ForEx.com, Splunk, Shenzhen Municipal Public Security Bureau, VESK, VocaLink, Volkswagen, NTT Data, Honda, Nissan, Juniper, Checkpoint, Zend, VMware, Citrix and Zappos.com.

 Arista Networks, Inc. today announced Advanced Event Management (AEM), a suite of new capabilities in Arista's Extensible Operating System, the world's most advanced network operating system, that enables increased and unprecedented levels of network automation while improving overall system uptime.

AEM is a powerful and flexible tool that automates tasks and customizes the behavior of EOS and the operation of the switching infrastructure. AEM allows operators to fully utilize the intelligence within EOS to respond to real-time events, automate routine tasks, and take local automated action based on changing network conditions. These services allow engineers, operators, and partners to take advantage of the functions inherent in EOS and AEM to use the Arista hardware in customizable ways that work intimately with each customer’s unique operating environment.

Nexenta Systems, supplier of OpenStorage solutions, has announced that it has secured over $21 million in Series C financing, with Menlo Ventures-- experienced investor in the storage space industry--as its new lead investor. Sierra Ventures and Razor’s Edge Ventures were also chosen for partnership in this round, joining current investors Javelin Venture Partners and TransLink Capital.

This announcement follows its three year growth of over 400% year-over-year making it one of the fastest growing enterprise storage companies. Throughout 2011, Nexenta achieved additional corporate milestones, including $300 million in hardware sales, serving over 4,000 customers, and tripling its workforce. They were also able to be ‘capital efficient’ while funding most of their operations from sales revenue. Nexenta Systems has stated that they will use this growth in funding to sustain the company’s growth, pace of innovation, and global expansion to meet the rapid of their customers.

Arista Networks dares you to break your network. Go ahead, play with the code, screw it up, then start again. After all, that's what it takes to build a network that can support dynamic provisioning in the cloud. More importantly, that's what open source networking software will let you do. When Arista emerged in 2004, its chiefs, former Sun Microsystems founder Andy Bechtolsheim and Stanford professor David Cheriton, drew plenty of media buzz. The two had sold their company Granite Systems to Cisco and then had been executives at the networking giant. Out of the gate at Arista, they proceeded to poach Cisco heavy hitters, including former switching head Jayshree Ullal, who became Arista’s CEO.

Alliance Storage Technologies, Inc will Present Industry-Leading Archive Storage Solutions at USENIX LISA ’11
Growth in the professional data archiving solutions arena has been created by the huge demand for regulatory compliant systems along with the need for secure and cost effective disaster recovery and buisness continuity strategies. Alliance is poised to discuss industry best practices and scalable custom solutions at the LISA show in Boston, December 7 - 8.

Arista Networks, Inc. today announced four new switches to its 7050 Series family and Arista EOS software enhancements that address the most demanding needs in cloud computing environments. The products are an expansion of Arista’s cloud networking portfolio and provide the scalability, resilience and density customers with mission-critical data centers and cloud computing facilities require.

Quantum Corp. (NYSE: QTM), the leading global specialist in backup, recovery and archive, today announced two new additions to its DXi6700 family of disk backup systems, offering a unique combination of industry-leading performance and value and the ability to extend deduplication beyond appliances. With future-proof features and scalability spanning midrange and enterprise environments, the DXi6701 and DXi6702 appliances provide multi-protocol interfaces and the highest performance in their class. Encompassing new DXi Accent(TM) software that distributes deduplication to backup servers, the new additions to the DXi(R)-Series provide unmatched flexibility for where deduplication takes place on the network. With all necessary software licenses included in the price and an easy-to-deploy design, the DXi6700 family delivers best-in-class total cost of ownership (TCO).

SGI (NASDAQ: SGI), a trusted leader in technical computing, today announced that a new SGI high performance computing (HPC) system has been selected by CSC (NYSE: CSC) to meet National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) requirements for weather and climate forecast modeling. This system will be installed in NOAA's Environmental Security Computing Center in Fairmont, West Virginia.

NOAA is the federal agency focused on examining the condition of the oceans and the atmosphere. From climate monitoring to providing daily weather forecasts and severe storm warnings, NOAA's products and services support the country's economic vitality and affects more than one-third of America's gross domestic product. Their dedicated scientists use cutting-edge research and high-tech instrumentation to respond to the demands of citizens, planners, emergency managers and other decision-makers asking for timely and reliable information about our changing environment.

Scale Computing, a developer and manufacturer of intelligent, scale-out storage solutions tailored to the virtualization and archiving needs of the small and medium-sized enterprise (SME), today announced record results for its second quarter, ending June 30, 2011 (Q2’11). Scale Computing’s Q2’11 revenue in the SME market grew 102 percent over Q1’10. In addition, Scale Computing launched a new partner program that resulted in a 192 percent increase in new partners quarter–over–quarter.

The need to better manage data growth, optimize infrastructure costs, and improve availability of mission-critical messaging systems data continues to intensify as organizations adopt and upgrade to Microsoft® Exchange Server 2010. According to Sheila Childs, research vice president at Gartner, "Many companies rolling out this latest release of Exchange are considering an overhaul of their legacy backup products based on a single, unified strategy that aligns data protection, archive and discovery." As the pioneer in modern data protection, CommVault is introducing a new bundle to its channel partners designed to simplify the management, lower the cost and increase the productivity of applications running in mid-range and smaller IT environments. The new bundle combines award-winning Simpana® software backup and content archiving with a broad range of protection capabilities including application-aware snapshot management, source-side deduplication, global reporting, and leading hardware and service recommendations that simplify protection and recovery for growing Exchange environments.

Coraid Inc., a leading developer of Ethernet SAN solutions with more than 1,400 customers worldwide, today announced the formation of its Customer Advisory Council. Members of the council represent top executives from industry-leading companies in a wide variety of markets including Shutterstock, Legg Mason Capital Management, Exegy, Inc., Pac-West Telecomm, Thought Equity Motion, Smartronix, and Northrop Grumman Corporation. The Customer Advisory Council will work closely with Coraid's executive team to forecast future data center requirements; identify emerging trends in the cloud, virtualization, and storage markets; and develop and refine product roadmaps.

Charter members of the Customer Advisory Council represent leaders in the security, government, equity management, automobile manufacturing, video licensing services and other fields.

• Chris Fischer, director of web operations and IT, Shutterstock Images, the world's largest subscription-based stock photo agency.
• James Hancock, director of infrastructure technology, Legg Mason Capital Management, a leading equity manager.
• Bill Hildebrandt, director of IT and operations, Exegy Inc., a provider of hardware-accelerated market data systems for financial organizations.
• Matt Krokosz, CTO, Pac-West Telecomm, a provider of wholesale advanced telecommunications services.
• Mark Lemmons, CTO, Thought Equity Motion, a leading provider of video platform and footage licensing services.
• David Streed, senior program manager, Smartronix, a global professional solutions provider.

"Coraid is deeply committed to customer success, and our Customer Advisory Council provides an ideal vehicle for executive-level networking, idea sharing and innovation," said Kevin Brown, CEO, Coraid. "Members bring a unique forward-thinking perspective to the council and extensive, high-level experience with the storage demands of some of the world's leading organizations. Their insight into the industry will help Coraid in building a world-class storage platform."

Spectra Logic, celebrating more than 30 years of data storage innovation, today announced it has been recognized at the 2011 Storage Awards (‘The Storries’) where its T-Finity product triumphed as the Tape-Based Product of the Year.

Now in its eighth year, the Storage Awards is where the readers of Storage Magazine reward the outstanding products, services and people in the storage industry. Over 25,000 votes were cast in the build-up to the awards ceremony at the Grand Connaught Rooms in London on June 23^rd. Spectra Logic secured the prestigious award by outpacing drive and library product competition from Dell, HP, IBM, Oracle, Overland Storage, Qualstar, Quantum and Tandberg in the Tape-Based Product of the Year category.

Spectra Logic, celebrating more than 30 years of data storage innovation, today announced it has appointed Steve Mackey to the role of vice president of sales for Europe and Africa.

With more than 15 years experience in the storage industry, Mackey brings to Spectra Logic a strong track record of success in achieving aggressive revenue growth through effective go-to market strategies, developing outstanding sales teams, directing focused field execution and delivering strong customer satisfaction. Most recently Mackey was the senior area director for Quantum in Northern Europe where he was responsible for the company’s systems business in the UK, Ireland, Nordics, Middle East and Africa. An engineering and marketing graduate, Mackey has held a number of marketing and sales leadership positions during his tenures at DEC, Grau, ADIC and Quantum.

QStar Technologies, Inc., a global leader in enterprise-class archive and data management software, today unveiled QStar Retention Manager for Disk, a software that enables organizations to create simple, low-cost archives using RAID or Disk, that will help to meet internal corporate file retention governance.

Retention Manager for Disk is exceptionally flexible and cost effective, as underutilized capacities or portions of any direct attached or network shared, disk or RAID can be used to create an archive. It is ideal for low capacity archives (up to 16TB), which retain healthcare images, email (PST) files, company documents, quotations, or any set of files that have a pre-determined useful life.

SGI (NASDAQ: SGI), a trusted leader in technical computing, today announced the latest generation of SGI® Altix® ICE, a highly flexible, tightly integrated blade architecture based on the latest Intel® Xeon® (codenamed "Sandy Bridge EP") processor series. This newest Altix ICE solution represents the fifth generation of the award-winning high performance computing (HPC) solution, offering numerous advancements in performance and density while addressing the ongoing need to consolidate computing "cluster sprawl."

SGI (NASDAQ: SGI), a trusted leader in technical computing, today announced that NASA's Pleiades supercomputer system, built with SGI® Altix® ICE technology, has achieved more than one petaflop/second in sustained compute performance based on the LINPACK performance benchmark, and has now moved into the #7 spot on the June 2011 Top500 list of supercomputer sites in the world. The Pleiades system is run by the NASA Advanced Supercomputing (NAS) Division at Ames Research Center, and represents NASA's state-of-the-art technology for meeting the agency's supercomputing requirements, enabling scientists and engineers across the nation to conduct modeling and simulation for NASA missions.

A survey into attitudes of attendees at Europe’s first OpenStorage user conference, hosted by Nexenta Systems in Amsterdam on May 20, found that the widespread use of legacy storage solutions is likely to be replaced or surpassed by the deployment of OpenStorage.

Key survey findings:

• Over 85% of the 56 medium and large enterprise users and storage integrators who responded to the survey expect to use or deploy OpenStorage in their IT environments within the next 18 months.
• The respondents spanned a wide range of storage users, averaging between 20-200TB of storage. Over 11% of the respondents claimed to be responsible for managing half a petabyte or more of data.
• Over two thirds (70%) of respondents believe OpenStorage usage will eventually replace or overtake the proprietary storage solutions they use today.

According to Evan Powell, CEO of Nexenta Systems, the world’s leading provider of OpenStorage solutions, senior IT decision-makers are rapidly waking up to the fact that OpenStorage solutions can offer the same feature-set as legacy storage systems, but at a fraction of the cost.

Spectra Logic, celebrating more than 30 years of data storage innovation, announced today that it is a joint sponsor of theUK Storage Awards, “The Storries”. The data storage industry’s most outstanding products, services and people, as selected by Storage magazine readers’ votes, will be recognised at the event in London on June 23.

The Spectra® T-Finity library was named a finalist in “The Storries” Tape-based Product of the Year category. Spectra’s T-Finity is the data storage industry’s highest capacity tape library, scaling to more than 30,000 slots without requiring a pass-through mechanism. When joining multiple libraries into a library complex, T-Finity scales up to 740PB capacity. T-Finity offers the greatest slot density, strongest data integrity verification feature set and most comprehensive, easy-to-operate multiple-library management interface of any enterprise-class tape library on the market today.

“The Spectra T-Finity tape library delivers the most efficient and densely packed archive and backup solution available today, and our T-Series libraries’ strong adoption across Europe is evident based on this award nomination,” said Molly Rector, Spectra Logic's vice president of worldwide marketing and product management. “The European market can expect to see a burst of activity from Spectra Logic in the next 12 to 18 months, including product enhancements, corporate program launches, and staffing increases including new company positions.”

The eighth annual UK Storage Awards ceremony will be held on 23 June 2011, at The Grand Connaught Rooms, Covent Garden in London