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Western Digital, Ctera ink private cloud partnership with joint solution

Western Digital and Ctera Networks are partnering to provide a certified solution for IT organizations, to build private clouds that combine enterprise-grade file sharing, data protection, and branch office file storage capabilities. The joint solution combines the HGST Active Archive System with CTERA’s enterprise file services platform.

Services delivered will include enterprise file sync and share, cloud storage gateways, as well as endpoint and server backup.

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President Joe Biden signed a foreign aid package that includes a bill that would ban TikTok if China-based parent company ByteDance fails to divest the app within a year, writes Lauren Feiner.

IBM to acquire HashiCorp for $6.4B

IBM and HashiCorp have entered into an agreement for IBM to acquire HashiCorp, a provider of infrastructure and security management products, for $6.4 billion.

Oracle is moving its world headquarters to Nashville to be closer to health-care industry — CNBC

Oracle Chairman Larry Ellison said Tuesday that the company is moving its world headquarters to Nashville, Tennessee, to be closer to a major health-care epicenter, writes Ashley Capoot.