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Zerto, setting the standard for protection, recovery and migration of data in cloud and virtualized data centers, today announced it has secured a $50 million Series E financing led by IVP and has achieved a fourth consecutive year of 100%+ sales growth. The additional capital will support continued product development to increase the flexibility of software defined, hybrid cloud infrastructures for easier adoption and use by business leaders in a wide range of industries. As a later stage venture capital investor, IVP’s noteworthy successes include high profile technology companies AppDynamics, Domo, Marketo, Netflix, Pure Storage, Snapchat, and Twitter.

MSPAlliance will be hosting its annual MSPWorld Spring Conference and Expo April 3-5 in Orlando, FL as well as its annual Fall Conference in October of 2016 in Las Vegas, NV.

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The price of enterprise cloud computing services has dropped by two-thirds since 2013, but is starting to stabilize, according to a report released Monday by Tariff Consulting Ltd (TCL). The Pricing the Cloud 2 – 2016 to 2020 report puts the cost of entry-level cloud instances at about 12 cents an hour with Windows OS.

The report follows up a 2014 report, with research running through November 2015. It surveys published prices for more than 20 public cloud providers among 45 companies considered worldwide, and breaks down into public and private clouds, with the pricing categories pay as you go, hybrid, and private…

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Technology giant International Business Machines Corporation won more U.S. patents than any other company in 2015, landing 7,355 grants. That works out to about 20 patents a day, including weekends. The designs range from an artificial neural network meant to serve as a computer processor to a newfangled authentication system that could lock a bank account if it detects fear or nervousness as someone makes a purchase.

Together, the concepts shadow the company’s emphasis on its fast-growing cloud platform and cognitive computing technologies. Over 2,000 of the new patents came from those two segments. But while it’s tempting to think of patents as a proxy for innovation, experts say that’s not always the case. Patents can also be used as a litigation tool or a way to secure hefty licensing fees…

"Datadog is leading the way in how enterprises deploy and monitor their increasingly dynamic infrastructure," said Shardul Shah, Datadog board member and partner at Index Ventures. "We started the journey together with a beautifully-designed, easy-to-use product that delivered value to customers very quickly. We have incredible momentum, and we’re looking forward to tackling an enormous opportunity to drive the cloud infrastructure management market globally."

DataCore, the leader in Parallel Powered Software-Defined Storage and Hyper-converged Virtual SAN solutions, today announced a new world record for price-performance using the industry’s most recognized and peer reviewed storage benchmark, the Storage Performance Council’s SPC-1. Thanks largely to breakthroughs in its parallel I/O software that harnesses the untapped power of multi-core processors, this achievement places DataCore with an audited SPC-1 Price-Performance of $0.08 per SPC-1 IOPS and as the clear-cut leader in SPC-1 Price-Performance overall. DataCore certified its results on a powerful but compact 2U Lenovo System x3650 M5 multi-core server featuring Intel Xeon E5-2600 v3 series processors with a mix of flash SSD and disk storage. On this same platform, DataCore also recorded the fastest response times ever attained, even compared to the many all-flash arrays and multi-million dollar name brand systems that have published SPC-1 results.

Veeam Software, the innovative provider of solutions that deliver Availability for the Always-On Enterprise, today announced the general availability of Veeam Availability Suite v9. The latest version of Veeam’s award-winning availability solution introduces more than 250 new innovative features and enhancements to help organizations deliver on the needs of the Always-On Enterprise, enabling SLAs (service level agreements) for recovery time and point objectives, or RTPO, of less than 15 minutes for ALL applications and data.

According to a Forrester/Disaster Recovery Journal survey of global disaster recovery decision-makers, 35 percent of companies reported that mismatched business expectations from technology capabilities was one of the biggest challenges faced when recovering from their most recent disaster or major business disruption. The survey found that business managers and executives are demanding their IT organizations deliver better availability, but IT is struggling to meet those expectations. With Veeam Availability Suite v9, Veeam is enabling enterprises of all sizes to close this gap (the Availability Gap) and deliver 24/7 availability.

VDIworks, a provider of virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) solutions, today announced its certification under the CenturyLink Cloud Marketplace Provider Program. This integration allows customers of the CenturyLink Cloud platform to easily create, manage and deploy virtual desktop solutions in a range of different environments.

The Virtual Desktop Platform (VDP) from VDIworks allows CenturyLink Cloud customers to have a flexible, secure, business-ready virtual desktop solution. VDP is a comprehensive VDI management suite that was architected to reduce complexity and costs typically associated with VDI. It allows CenturyLink Cloud customers to set up a hosted virtual desktop infrastructure within a matter of minutes.

Red Hat, Inc., the world’s leading provider of open source solutions, today announced the general availability of Ansible 2.0. This new release of the leading simple, agentless, and powerful open source IT automation framework brings increased stability, new automation capabilities, and new integrations with a variety of services and providers, broadening support for public, private, and hybrid cloud deployments, and expanding Ansible’s footprint into Microsoft Windows environments and network management.

Ansible is designed to enable developer and operators in IT organizations to quickly learn and deploy the software, empowering them to break down barriers between IT teams by automating routine activities. Ansible 2.0 makes getting started with Ansible easier than ever with the following improvements: