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DataCore Software Corporation, a provider of storage virtualization and networking software, today announced that it has raised over $30 million in its current round of funding. The company said Vista Equity Partners, based in San Francisco, was the lead investor in the round. New Enterprise Associates and OneLiberty Ventures, the initial institutional investors, also made […]

Cereva Networks Inc., a developer of Internet Storage systems for large enterprises, service providers and carriers, today announced that it has joined the Brocade Fabric Threads Developer Program. According to the companies, the program is designed to provide SAN hardware and software developers with the tools and resources to create new products and applications and […]

By Erin Joyce In what appears to be a well-timed waiting game, International Business Machines has purchased the assets of middleware company CrossWorlds Software, Inc. in a cash transaction valued at about $129 million. The deal ends long-running market chatter over whether IBM would purchase the company, which went public in June of 2000 as […]

Sun Microsystems Inc. :SUNW>, and Campus Pipeline Inc., a provider of Web-integration enterprise software for higher education today announced an alliance to rollout the Sun Open Net Environment (Sun ONE) strategy in higher education. The two companies have aligned product development roadmaps and are developing technologies and applications to enable schools and universities to unite […]

Citrix Systems Inc. and self-styled Evaluation Service Provider (ESP) Runaware Inc. today announced their collaboration to deliver online software evaluation services. The Web-based services, provided by Runaware using Citrix MetaFrame XPe application server software, lets prospective customers “test drive” full versions of software from independent software vendors (ISVs) and resellers without requiring a download or […]

SPSS, a Chicago-based maker of data mining software, will acquire NetGenesis , a Cambridge, Mass., maker of customer relationship management software, in a stock deal worth about $44 million. “We are making investments that enable us to strengthen and develop our core competencies so that we emerge from this economic downturn as a stronger organization,” […]

EMC Corporation today announced the launch its AutoIS(TM) (Automated Information Storage) strategy, which the company says it designed to make storage management automated, simple and open. In additon, EMC began delivering major elements of AutoIS today, including the EMC ControlCenter(TM), an Open Edition enterprise storage management environment; EMC WideSky(TM), storage management middleware; EMC ControlCenter Replication […]

EMC will develop software to manage equipment from other data storage vendors, part of an aggressive plan to right itself and “transform the industry” after a dismal quarter. The new products, announced in New York this morning, won’t be ready to ship for several months but could kickstart the Hopkinton, Mass., company, which has been […]

Flash data storage product vendor M-Systems claimed Monday that it has developed what it calls the world’s smallest single-chip flash disk that can dramatically increase on-device storage for wireless Net devices. The company says its 16MB Mobile DiskOnChip emulates a standard hard drive and is less than half the size of similar flash storage products, […]

McDATA(R) Corporation today announced that Karen Niparko has been named Vice President of Human Resources. McDATA said Niparko, who most recently was an executive consultant for Corporate Solutions, Inc., a human resources/business operations consulting firm, will be responsible for all human resources operations at McDATA. Prior to Corporate Solutions, Niparko served as the chief administrative […]

DataDirect Networks, a provider storage networking appliances, today announced the formation of its Board of Directors. The board is comprised of executives from ClearLight Partners, LLC and founding executives from DataDirect Networks that have been with the firm since its inception in 1988. The Board of Directors of DataDirect Networks is comprised of the following […]

NSI(R) Software today announced the introduction of Double-Take(R) for NAS Devices, a replication product for Windows-powered appliances. The company also announced that Compaq is the first company to select and promote the widespread deployment of Double-Take for NAS Devices. “Compaq’s Universal Network Storage solutions provide highly scalable, high performance and continuously available network attached storage […]