• Mac Mini Hosting: A Growing Niche for Colo Providers

  Hosting Mac minis is proving to be good business for a handful of colocation providers that specialize in hosting web sites on the small, square computers from Apple. This week Mac Mini Vault has just added a second data center location in Phoenix.

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• Tintri Raises $75 Million for Application-Aware Storage

  Tintri raises $75 million to accelerate continued innovation for its application-aware storage technology, and Violin Memory helps Korean game publisher GAMEVIL deliver markedly improved server performance with its Flash Memory array.

• Fusion-io Accelerates VMware Virtualized Solutions

  At the VMware Partner Exchange event Fusion-io (FIO) announced comprehensive updates to its full portfolio of flash-fueled virtualization solutions based on Fusion ioMemory.

• VMware Pumps Up Its Partners, Including Google

  This week in San Francisco the VMware Partner Exchange 2014 brought out thousands to network, learn about best practices and new VMware (VMW) solutions - and to 'master the new reality' of IT.

• Cloud SDN Provider Pertino Enters General Availability

  Pertino looks to extend Software Defined Networking to small businesses through deploying virtual networks via cloud. The company's offering has entered general availability roughly a year after raising a $20 million Series B.