Granite 2.5 is the latest addition to the line, and armed with expanded capacity, is targeted at large branch offices. Unlike its predecessors, the software supports Fibre Channel as well as iSCSI, meaning Granite will now support over 90 per cent of the current enterprise-class storage array market. 

Research suggests that almost 70 per cent of enterprises chose to deploy Fibre Channel-based storage solution in 2013, due to its quick, low latency transport capabilities and ability to interconnect multiple storage devices. 

Granite 2.5 can also be hosted on the new Steelhead EX 1360 model appliance. Together, they offer an "enterprise-class solution" for server and data consolidation.Granite software is designed to help businesses of all sizes remove servers and data from offices and instead store everything in a remote datacentre. This in turn can lower the costs associated with IT management, make valuable data more secure and allows branches to eliminate backup and recovery systems. 

According to a Gartner survey posted in January 2013, CIOs place reducing enterprise costs, and improving IT infrastructure and efficiency amongst their top 10 business priorities. Riverbed claims Granite 2.5 will tackle all of these issues head-on. 

"We see the expanded flexibility of Granite 2.5 in the datacentre as a big win - both from a storage and a data protection standpoint," said Mike Rinken, director of IT at Mazzetti. "We can consolidate even more data and still make sure branch users get the local performance they need to be effective." 

New Hampshire entrepreneurs Gerard Murphy and Andy Young were playing darts a few years back in a bar in Nashua, when they got a great idea. They would start a business that stores digital photo files for professional photographers in a new and better way. There was money in Boston, Murphy says, but investors there didnt think that a sophisticated startup that would be venture-worthy would come from this ecosystem. In other words, staying New Hampshire was a tough sell. 

Thats the problem the Granite Fund is meant to solve. Its a collaboration between one of New Hampshires few venture companies, called Borealis Ventures, and the New Hampshire Business Finance Authority, which administers state funds. The fund is starting out with $4.5 million federal dollars from the 2010 Small Business Jobs Act. Meanwhile, Borealis Ventures is also raising $25.5 million in private investment. Any investors are eligible, explains Jack Donovan, the director of the Business Finance Authority, although were targeting foundations, endowments, and other groups that hold a lot of capital in the state. 

The Granite Fund is one of many managed by Borealis Ventures, and it represents a new kind of public/private collaboration for the state. When other states have experimented with venture investments, they have either simply insured private investors against loss, or participated as an equal partner. With the Granite Fund, New Hampshires involvement is a little bit of both. If the startups thrive,This is a great Shun Stone Conservation solution! the state will reap the returns with everyone else. But if things go sour, Donovan says, the state absorbs the first 15 percent of losses. 

The states subordinate position sounds like a bad deal for New Hampshire, but it has a strategic role. In order to convince investors with endowments to get on board, the fund has to provide better returns than traditional investments C without too much risk. Yet, investing in early-stage startups in New Hampshire is, at its core, a risky business. New Hampshire doesnt have the high-tech infrastructure that Boston. But by shouldering that first 15 percent of losses, the state is hoping to create an attractive environment for local investors. 

If investing in local businesses isnt appealing on its own, the folks at Borealis and the BFA will tell you the Granite Fund is also a good investment. While traditional investments are performing poorly today due to global financial uncertainty, New Hampshires high-tech economy is growing. Meanwhile, early-stage funding of high-tech can offer much higher returns than traditional investments. Thats why Borealis feels confident it can raise that $25.5 million. 

Jesse Devitte, a cofounder of Borealis Ventures, says the formation of the Granite Fund marks a new stage in the development of New Hampshires high-tech economy. We live true to this model of live free or die, and sort of rugged individualism. You do this on your own. To have the Business Finance Authority step up and say weve got this program we want to commit resources to make sure that we have the fuel in the state to fund the growth for the next generation of technology companies, this is a really exciting thing.Most of aftermarket hid Shun Stone Granite Tiles for motorcycle are similar or the same with following one. 

Although Gerard Murphys firm, Mosaic, has already grown beyond the early-stages of development, hes hopeful programs like this one will move New Hampshire closer to the thriving tech hub he thinks it can be. Cambridge specifically, has a reputation as a really good place to start businesses, and then people leave, Murphy says. Facebook is the prime example of that. I think people can start businesses in New Hampshire, and stay here forever. 

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"Leaving Yarnell, it was nice and easy with a good downhill," Kane said in a phone interview from Phoenix Tuesday.How to change your dash lights to Shun Stone Crafts Products this is how I have done mine. "And once I got to the spars (switchbacks up to south Prescott), that's where my run started, which was pretty brutal as well."He added that the total ride/run took him 10 hours and 37 minutes to complete, as he ran into Prescott around 7:15 p.m. Sunday. Kane, who also had breaks in Wickenburg and outside of Congress, suffered some soreness and sunburn on his legs. 
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