Hedvig Closes $21.5M Funding Round, HPE Invests In The Software-Defined Storage Startup

Hewlett Packard Enterprise has taken an equity stake in yet another storage startup as one of the investors in a $21.5-million round of funding in Hedvig, a developer of software-defined storage technology. The Hedvig Distributed Storage Platform combines block, file, and object storage for bare metal, hypervisor and container environments, with performance that increases as the solution scales.

Expedia and Amazon Double Down on Britain

As politicians and businesses wrestle with potential changes to U.K. border controls, one of the world’s largest online travel booking companies has decided to double its headcount in London, and it’s not alone in looking to expand. Expedia Inc. will expand its U.K. office by 138,000 square feet, or to roughly twice the size of its existing space, and has signed a new lease that runs until 2030, according to a company statement.

Santa Clara University receives $100 million to build STEM facility

Santa Clara University plans to build an ambitious new science, technology, engineering and math hub, backed by a record $100 million gift from Susan and John A. Sobrato, an SCU alumnus and founder of one of Silicon Valley’s largest commercial development firms. The elegant new building, outfitted with state-of-the-art laboratories and equipment, could be a game-changer for the private, 165-year-old Jesuit university whose reputation was built on the liberal arts, creating a rare opportunity to link fast-moving technical fields with the school’s long-standing commitment to ethics.

Tintri to Present #DevOps June 6-8 at @CloudExpo | @Tintri #VM #SDN

“We are an all-flash array storage provider but our focus has been on VM-aware storage specifically for virtualized applications,” stated Dhiraj Sehgal of Tintri in this SYS-CON.tv interview at 19th Cloud Expo , held November 1-3, 2016, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA. Updating DevOps to the latest production data slows down your development cycle.

Rising Star Nvidia at CES 2017

For most of its 33 years, Nvidia was best known for building graphics processors that helped computers display high-powered computer games. Now, rising interest in the hardware that powers self-driving cars, artificial intelligence and virtual reality has taken the Santa Clara, Calif., chipmaker, little known outside the high-tech industry, to new heights.

Rising Star Nvidia at CES 2017

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