Moshe Yanai leaves IBM

The founder of EMC's storage company XIV and Symmetrix product, Moshe Yanai, has left IBM to pursue other interests, according to a report on The Register.

The Register quoted an IBM spokeswoman as saying Yanai, who also founded Diligent, had left, following rumours in the industry of his imminent departure circulating for months.

IBM's biography for Yanai on its website notes him as being "one of the most influential contributors in the history of the data storage industry", having spent more than 30 years in the industry and innovating in areas of fixed block architecture disks for mainframe storage, developing the Symmetrix high-end storage systems among other things. Yanai moved to IBM after his startup XIV was acquired by the technology giant.

NYSE Euronext migrates equities

NYSE Euronext has completed its migration of more than 4,500 equities listed on the New York Stock Exchange and NYSE AMEX into its new US data center Mahwah New Jersey, and will now begin moving its other markets and technology services. It expects its transition to Mahwah to be complete by the end of hte first quarter of 2011.

NYSE Technologies includes NYSE's colocatino services, its trading infrastructure on-demand and its direct data feeds, among other services. 

"Conceived over two years ago, these data centers were built to be our next-generation trading ecosystem and the centerpiece of our vision for the future of global markets, NYSE said.

Former Amazon executives raise funds

Nimbula, the cloud computing company formed in 2001 by former Amazon executives Chris Pinkham and Willem van Biljon, who led the development of the Amazon EC2 public cloud service, has received $15 million in funding. The venture capital will help the company realise it hybrid cloud computing technology goals, according to the company.

Nimbula is designing on- and off-premises infrastructure for the cloud. This latest round of funding was received from Accel partners.