Big Data/Actifio
IDC Canada lists Big Data as a market riser and little known Actifio, the makers of a protection and availability storage (PAS) platform is aiming its business at solving the “big data” problem.
The company has officially entered Canada forging relationships with five solution providers (Alliance Technologies, HighVail Systems, Blair Technology Solutions, MasStor Technologies and NoviPro) and is looking to expand in 2012.
The Waltham, Mass.-based company’s appliance is built to manage copies of production data in a more streamlined approach than other companies’ backup and recovery products. Actifio aims to reduce backup and restore windows to make storage backup more efficient and cost-effective.
Actifio’s PAS appliance virtualizes copies of data and manages them through a simple user interface that has a look and feel similar to using a Mac. Actifio calls its technology Virtual Data Pipeline, which is a single solution for backup, snapshots, de-duplication, disaster recovery, and analytics/compliance.
Cheap Tablets/DataWindMontreal-based DataWind Inc. is targeting sales of about six million units of its low-cost tablet in India this year, but it has to arrange additional manufacturing capacity and strengthen its support network to meet what looks like an unexpected surge in demand, an executive of the company said.
The Aakash tablet costs about $50 and was launched in October under an Indian government program to offer low-cost tablets to students. DataWind, a start-up with operations in Canada and the U.K., bagged an order from the Indian government for 100,000 tablets up to March 31, and has delivered 10,000 so far.
A new order from the government for low-cost tablets is expected this month, and DataWind plans to bid, DataWind CEO Suneet Singh Tuli said. DataWind has launched a new version of its tablet priced at $60. DataWind’s business model and the low price of its tablet depend on large volume sales, Tuli said.
Trusted cloud/Bromium
Everything is a secret with Bromium and therefore the story is a short one so far. The company would not have even hit the radar if it wasn’t for the $9.2 million win fall in venture capital they received from Andreessen Horowitz.
Bromium are attempting to build a second generation virtualization product that will make cloud computing more trustworthy.
