Helium-filled drives are shipping

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HGST is shipping the 6TB Ultrastar He6 hard disk drive (HDD). Key OEM, cloud and research leaders working closely with HGST to qualify the drive include HP, Netflix, Huawei Unified Storage, CERN, Green Revolution Cooling and Code42, as well as some of the world’s largest social media and search companies. Revealed in September 2012, HGST’s cutting-edge HelioSeal™ platform provides a path for higher capacity storage for decades to come while significantly lowering customer...

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Four new FlexPods

Cisco and NetApp are introducing four new FlexPod capabilities with additional features to simplify the cloud and offer greater business continuity. These FlexPod solutions have been designed to enable IT and service providers to become cloud enabled more easily. FlexPod provides a highly virtualized infrastructure that can be easily automated. Companies like Cirrity and Virtustream are taking advantage of FlexPod to help advance their cloud offering to their customers.

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Proact expands in Estonia

Proact IT Group AB has through Proact Estonia AS signed a contract to acquire a business line from Elion Ettevõtted AS containing IT infrastructure solutions from Oracle, Hitachi Data systems, Quantum and Symantec.

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Apptio helps companies compare IT costs

Apptio has unveiled product updates that, for the first time, allow enterprises to measure costs of their IT assets in standard categories, and automatically compare these categories against industry peers.

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Red Hat launches initiative to drive enterprise adoption of OpenStack

Red Hat, Inc. has announced a new initiative called On-Ramp to Enterprise OpenStack to drive enterprise adoption of OpenStack, the popular framework for building and managing private, public, and hybrid Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) clouds. Red Hat is closely collaborating with Intel on the On-Ramp to Enterprise OpenStack program, educating customers on the benefits and capabilities of Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform running on Intel® Architecture and making it easier for...

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