PolyServe
PolyServe, an emerging company in software for deploying and
managing Intel-based server clusters for enterprise applications, recently
announced that it has successfully raised $19.5 million in Series C funding.
Greylock, New Enterprise Associates, and the RODA Group participated in the
funding round. PolyServe will use the funding to expand its product development
and business operations. PolyServe software helps companies create centrally
managed cost-effective farms of standard servers to run enterprise applications
such as databases, ERP, CRM, web servers and file servers. PolyServe software
makes these farms simple to manage, highly-reliable and extremely flexible while
providing dramatic cost savings of standard hardware from multiple vendors and
greatly simplifying management by enabling groups of servers to be treated as a
single unit. Business applications, databases and infrastructure components can
be installed once, configured and maintained in one place, and made available to
many servers simply by pointing the servers to the files on a SAN. PolyServe
has partnerships in place with the following industry leaders: Brocade,
CommVault, Dell, EMC, Emulex, HP, IBM, Intel, McData, NTT Comware, Oracle,
QLogic, SuSE, Topspin & XIOtech.
- February 26, 2007 -
HP today announced that it
has signed a definitive agreement to acquire PolyServe, Inc.
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Animal Brands and Metaphors in the Storage Market
 Animal
marketing metaphors are popular in service industries, but you'd be surprised
how many companies have used animals in their marketing of data storage
products and services.
The storage market was worth over $160 billion
in 2006, and as it gets bigger - more companies will turn to animal brands to
help differentiate their otherwise bland products and lend them artificial
(or deserving) characters and virtues.
The idea behind this type of
marketing is to suggest positive connotations so it's unlikely that anyone will
choose to associate their products with gremlins. But you may be surprised by
the population of the storage ark.
This reference articles lists all
known companies who have furry marketing brands, and also includes some which
are slimy, scaly and scary too. ...read the article,
Mice in storage |
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