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Al Gore’s VC firm backs GreenBytes

May 29, 2012 by Pedro Hernandez Leave a Comment

GreenBytes array

Another SSD deal? You bet! GreenBytes snagged $12 million in Series B funding from Al Gore’s venture capital fund,  Generation Investment Management. Battery Ventures and GreenBytes’ management team chipped in as well. GreenBytes, a dedupe specialist and maker of SSD and hybrid disk arrays, plans to use the money to expand into the global marketplace and shore up […]

Filed Under: Storage Tagged With: green storage, GreenBytes, SSD, Storage, VC, venture

Think green for efficient data storage

September 1, 2011 by Pedro Hernandez Leave a Comment

Ragib Hasan and Randal Burns

In recent years, the data storage part of the IT energy efficiency equation has been getting a ton of attention. From deduplication drama to a white-hot flash startup scene, where our data’s stored and how it’s managed have become big priorities. The good news is that when it comes to architecting an efficient storage infrastructure […]

Filed Under: Storage Tagged With: data deduplication, dedupe, green storage, Storage

Compellent: Dell’s $960M green storage acquisition

December 13, 2010 by Pedro Hernandez 1 Comment

About month and a half ago, buzz began to surround Eden Prairie, Minnesota-based Compellent Technologies based on reports that Dell was interested in acquiring the storage startup. Rumor became reality today when it was revealed that Dell is acquiring Compellent for $960 million.  The firm specializes in storage technologies that improve energy efficiency in data […]

Filed Under: Cloud Computing, Green IT, Storage Tagged With: acquisition, cloud storage, Compellent, Data Center, Dell, green storage, M&A, Storage, storage virtualization

Compellent: A green storage acquisition target?

October 28, 2010 by Pedro Hernandez 2 Comments

Is another round of M&A drama about to ensue, courtesy of Compellent? First, there was the epic bidding war over DataDomain during the summer of 2009. EMC claimed victory over NetApp in that episode. Then earlier this year, HP was victorious in snatching 3PAR from Dell’s waiting hands. Now, Compellent’s latest, record-setting revenue disclosure and […]

Filed Under: Storage Tagged With: 3PAR, Compellent, Data Center, Dell, EMC, green storage, HP, M&A, NetApp, SAN, Storage, storage area networks, storage virtualization, thin provisioning

Green storage: Does the SSD tipping point draw near?

October 20, 2010 by Pedro Hernandez

The price per gigabyte ratio keeps swinging in favor of improved solid-state drive (SSD) adoption, but not faster than prices keep tumbling on traditional hard drives. Apart from high-performance servers, storage arrays, a smattering of portables, and of course, PC enthusiasts that spend top dollar for the fastest components, SSDs are still having a tough […]

Filed Under: Storage Tagged With: flash storage, green storage, Kingston, OCZ, solid-state drive, SSD, Storage, Western Digital

3PAR: Hints of a green storage bidding war

August 26, 2010 by Pedro Hernandez 1 Comment

Last year, EMC and NetApp battled it out for DataDomain, whose claim to fame was a strong data deduplication portfolio. Data deduplication, as its name suggests, helps data center operators keep their energy and storage hardware costs in check by eliminating identical sets of data that would otherwise take up room on oftentimes pricey storage […]

Filed Under: Featured, Green IT, Storage Tagged With: 3PAR, acquisition, cloud storage, data deduplication, Data Domain, Dell, EMC, green storage, HP, M&A, NetApp, Storage, storage virtualization, thin provisioning

Avere lands $17M in funding

August 6, 2010 by Pedro Hernandez Leave a Comment

When it comes to green data storage, data deduplication ranks right up there with SSDs in my book, but those aren’t the only ways to make storage systems more energy efficient and better performing. And VCs are taking notice. Avere Systems announced today that it has secured $17 million in Series B funding from Tenaya […]

Filed Under: Green IT Tagged With: Avere, funding, green storage, Storage, VC, venture capital

Green IT News Roundup: Wednesday, July 29

July 29, 2009 by Pedro Hernandez Leave a Comment

APC to replace aircons with row-based cooling systems – Computerworld According to APC, air conditioners are the “second-highest consumer of power in the data center, next only to the IT equipment.” And citing a report by Gartner, the company said…

Filed Under: Green IT Tagged With: APC, Cloud Computing, Green IT, green storage, Greenpeace, HP, Hyper9, News, roundup, VMware

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