Exablox Adds Toshiba as a Strategic Investor Extending Its Series C Funding Round

Exablox Adds Toshiba as a Strategic Investor Extending Its Series C Funding Round

SUNNYVALE, CA — (Marketwired) — 05/18/15 — ®, the award winning company re-imagining storage, today announced it has added $7 million to its Series C round of funding bringing the total to $23 million. As part of the round, Toshiba America Electronic Components, Inc. (TAEC) joins Dell Ventures as a strategic investor. TAEC participated in the round due to Exablox–s ability to quickly support new drive technologies that meet the rapidly growing demands of storing unstructured data. Exabl

Commercial Tablet and 2-in-1 Expansion Accelerates in Western Europe, Says IDC

According to figures published by International Data Corporation (IDC), the overall tablet market in Western Europe remained challenged in 1Q15, declining 10.5% year over year with total shipments totaling 8.5 million units. The contraction, however, was mainly the result of sluggish consumer demand as the expansion of tablets in the commercial space accelerates with volumes increasing 51.3% from the same period last year.
In terms of product category, the share of 2-in-1s, albeit growi

Worldwide Personal&Entry Level Storage Market Declined in the First Quarter of 2015, According to IDC

.2015 – Worldwide personal and entry-level storage (PELS) shipments declined by -6.4% year over year and -13.6% sequentially, finishing the first quarter of 2015 (1Q15) with 17.6 million units, according to the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Personal and Entry Level Storage Tracker. Shipment values declined along with unit shipments, down -11.6% from a year ago to $1.5 billion.
"Broadly speaking, the size of this market has changed little over the past two and a hal

Digital Signage Poised for Growth as Companies Embrace Business Benefits, IDC Says

.2015 – Driven by more flexible, interactive content that helps organizations be more "cutting edge," digital signage will experience strong growth over the next two years. The transition from static, paper-based signage to digital content is developing quickly as companies understand the benefits of digital solutions as indicated by high satisfaction rates among users. New survey results from International Data Corporation (IDC) show nearly 82% of companies currently using digital sig

Siaras and Talligent Partner to Bring Advanced Federation and Billing to Carrier Class Hybrid Clouds

Siaras and Talligent Partner to Bring Advanced Federation and Billing to Carrier Class Hybrid Clouds

VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA — (Marketwired) — 05/18/15 — OPENSTACK SUMMIT – and today announced a partnership under which the companies will ensure interoperability for their cloud service provider (CSP) customers. Siaras cloudScape provides carrier class hybrid cloud management for cloud footprints encompassing a broad array of dissimilar hosted private and public clouds along with requisite intercloud connectivity. Talligent OpenBook creates an independent and detailed historical record

SmartMetric Says the Latest Research Figures on Card Fraud Show a Dramatic Increase Over Just a 12 Month Period With United States Credit Card Fraud Increasing to $12 Billion in 2014 From $8 Billion in 2013 While Account Takeover Fraud Is a $5 Billion Add

NEW YORK, NY — (Marketwired) — 05/18/15 — SmartMetric, Inc. (OTCQB: SMME) — SmartMetric, the creator of a fully functional biometric fingerprint reader that sits inside a credit or debit card says that the massive increase in financial losses due to credit card and account takeover fraud show the need for better and stronger identity and payments card security.A recently published report, titled, The True Cost Of Fraud, by LexisNexis reveals a huge increase in credit card fraud rates. For 2