Silver Lake invests in Nobao

Silver Lake has made an investment in Shanghai-based Nobao Renewable Energy Holdings, a provider of energy-efficiency technologies, in a deal a person familiar with the matter says was worth around $100 million, reports The Wall Street Journal.

The private-equity firm is taking a minority stake in Nobao and the deal is Silver Lake's first investment in China's clean-technology sector, the person says. Silver Lake, which has around $14 billion in assets under management, didn't provide the size of its stake in the Shanghai company, which develops geothermal technology to power heating, cooling and hot water supply systems in buildings.

"Nobao Renewable Energy is China's industry leader in geothermal technologies," says Silver Lake MD Eric Chen.

Caringo updated its object-based Content Storage Software, easing the way for SMEs and hosted services companies to build clouds by using commodity x86 servers, and provide scaling and redundancy, states Information Week.

Version 5.0 of CAStor adds features that the company says makes it easy for SMEs and hosted services firms to create and provision highly reliable and available scalable storage from commodity x86 servers, as opposed to RAID or traditional NAS/SAN solutions.

Objected-based storage means "no file system," says Mark Goros, chief executive officer. "A file system has limits on the size and number of files, and other concerns. CAStor manages the files and their metadata, which includes system metadata that users don't touch, and user metadata such as tags to describe the data.

OKI Data Americas, which markets its products under the OKI Printing Solutions brand, has announced the introduction of an A4 colour and mono multifunction printers ideal for the SMEs market, increasing the company's product portfolio of efficient small to mid-sized workgroup document solutions, reveals Business Solutions.

The MC361 and MC561 Colour multifunction printers offer superior speed, media flexibility and eco-friendly features while delivering High-Definition colour output on a variety of media. The newly refreshed family of colour and mono multifunction printers completes the company's refresh of their entire A4 letter product portfolio.

The MC361 and MC561 feature HD colour and single pass colour digital LED technologies that deliver crisp detail and rich, dramatic colour. These models include standard functionality usually found in higher class and more expensive models.