In brief: LeftHand gets $25 million in new funding

Network World
September 12, 2005 12:08 AM ET

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LeftHand Networks, a maker of iSCSI-based storage-area network products, says it has received $25 million in new venture funding, bringing its total to $75 million. Valhalla Partners led the round, with new participation from JPMorgan Chase. The funding will be used to extend the company's global sales and support efforts, LeftHand executives say.
Novell last week announced its SuSE Linux 10 operating system will be generally available early next month in retail or online stores. The new software emphasizes ease of use and is aimed at both developers and home users, according to the company. Version 10 is the first fruit of the openSuSE project, a community program backed by Novell and designed to evangelize its distribution of Linux. Novell unveiled its openSuse project at the LinuxWorld show in San Francisco last month when the company released the first public beta of SuSE Linux 10. SuSE Linux was previously known as SuSE Linux Professional. The new operating system incorporates feedback from developers garnered since the first public beta was released Aug. 9.
Advanced Micro Devices is getting a new CTO, as Fred Weber steps down to pursue other interests and Newisys founder Phil Hester takes over the job, AMD announced last week.Weber, who is credited with leading the engineering teams that developed AMD's Opteron and Athlon 64 processors, will leave the company after a transition period of several weeks and will then focus on new entrepreneurial opportunities, an AMD spokesman said. Hester has several goals in mind for AMD's future processor development. He plans to work on building versions of Opteron for high-end multiprocessor servers, such as the 64-way Opteron servers that are in development at Newisys, he said.

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