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Review: HP 3PAR conjures powerful storage magic

(Paul Ferrill) — Wed, 08 May 2013 10:15:00 GMT

HP 3PAR StoreServe 7400 combines high scalability, high performance, and a big bag of tricks for easing storage management

Isilon OneFS software to expand scope of EMC's scale-out NAS

(Stephen Lawson) — Wed, 08 May 2013 00:10:00 GMT

EMC will continue extending its Isilon OneFS network-attached storage operating system to new use cases later this year, adding deduplication, compliance auditing and object storage features.

EMC's Syncplicity to gain hybrid-cloud storage capability

(Stephen Lawson) — Tue, 07 May 2013 22:12:00 GMT

Only a year after acquiring Syncplicity, EMC is getting ready to make the company's enterprise file management system work with hybrid clouds.

Software AG buys LongJump for cloud PaaS

(Chris Kanaracus) — Thu, 25 Apr 2013 20:01:00 GMT

Software AG has picked up cloud PaaS (platform-as-a-service) vendor LongJump in a bid to give small and medium-sized companies a way to rapidly develop applications with less involvement from IT. Terms of the deal, which was announced Thursday, were not disclosed.

Pivotal launched from VMware, EMC technologies

(Joab Jackson) — Wed, 24 Apr 2013 18:26:00 GMT

Making good on a promise made in December, VMware and parent company EMC have launched a new company, called Pivotal, to offer an enterprise-ready data analysis platform as a service (PaaS) based on software from both companies.

EMC storage business grows, profit shrinks

(Chris Kanaracus) — Wed, 24 Apr 2013 15:02:00 GMT

EMC reported first-quarter revenue rose 6% to $5.39 billion, while net income fell about 1% year-over year to $580 million as costs rose.

Cisco lays off 734, or 1% of workforce

(Jim Duffy) — Wed, 27 Mar 2013 21:09:00 GMT

Cisco this week reduced its workforce by about 1% -- or 734 people - as the company realigns to face the advent of software-defined networking, cloud computing and its impact on routing and switching.

Silver Peak announces virtual appliance for offsite replication

(Jon Gold) — Wed, 27 Mar 2013 11:08:00 GMT

Silver Peak Systems announced a new virtual application designed to dramatically speed up data duplication for disaster recovery without the purchase of additional hardware.

Oracle's storage business falters as market slows in Q4, says Gartner

(Mikael RicknA$?s) — Thu, 21 Mar 2013 13:56:00 GMT

Oracle suffered the most as growth in the storage market continued to slow during the end of 2012. Hewlett-Packard, Dell and IBM also struggled while EMC emerged as the big winner.

Big data the security answer?

(John Dix) — Mon, 11 Mar 2013 11:23:00 GMT

The recent RSA conference in San Francisco was awash in talk of big data, but it was clear there was some disagreement about what people mean by big data and some outright skepticism about it being the answer.

Forget big data, the value is in 'big answers'

(Rob Enderle) — Fri, 01 Mar 2013 14:20:00 GMT

The CTO of Barack Obama's reelection campaign says we need to stop worrying about big data and turn our attention instead to the 'big answers' the data provides. EMC, which made big data news this week, is one tech company that plans to translate big answers into big customer wins.

Microsoft, EMC, NetApp join Oracle's legal fight against Google on Java

(John Ribeiro) — Wed, 20 Feb 2013 04:57:00 GMT

Microsoft, EMC and NetApp have joined an appeal by Oracle against an earlier decision in a copyright and patent infringement lawsuit against Google over Android.

VMware buying Virsto to bolster storage virtualization

(Stephen Lawson) — Tue, 12 Feb 2013 00:59:00 GMT

VMware plans to acquire Virsto Software, maker of a "storage hypervisor" that will be added to VMware's popular virtualization lineup and licensed by EMC.

VCE CEO says EMC, Cisco, VMware partnership unshaken by NetApp incursion

lmearian@computerworld.com (Lucas Mearian) — Wed, 06 Feb 2013 19:59:00 GMT

VCE said its partnership with Cisco has been unaffected by Cisco's strengthening a reseller agreement with NetApp to sell cloud architectures.

Wall Street Beat: Earnings help boost tech as Dow closes above 14,000

(Marc Ferranti) — Fri, 01 Feb 2013 22:11:00 GMT

Despite some caution about the fortunes of BlackBerry, Facebook and Apple, solid financial results from tech vendors coupled with positive reports about the economy are boosting confidence in IT, with share prices of computer, consumer electronics and Internet companies rising this week.

Iomega px2-300d network-attached storage device

(Jon L. Jacobi, Kean Bartelman) — Wed, 30 Jan 2013 22:41:00 GMT

The Iomega px2-300d is a two-bay NAS box that delivers very good performance, excellent backup and surveillance features, and a helpful LCD that reports on the unit's status (IP address, current time, storage remaining, and so on). Its EMC LifeLine operating system is also one of the more feature-rich ones in the industry. But you should buy this box bare--Iomega populates it with enterprise-class hard drives that jack up the price.

Cisco gets closer to NetApp, further from VCE

(Jim Duffy) — Thu, 24 Jan 2013 13:48:00 GMT

Appearing to further distance itself from VCE coalition partners EMC and VMware, Cisco this week expanded collaboration with storage titan NetApp to deepen integration and market reach.

EMC Offers Online File Sharing With On-Premise Storage Product

(Thor Olavsrud) — Tue, 15 Jan 2013 14:18:00 GMT

EMC is building on its acquisition of the Syncplicity file-sharing and collaboration service by combining it with its Isilon scale-out NAS to provide the enterprise what the storage giant claims provides the convenience of a cloud-based file-sharing service with the administrative and governance capabilities of an on-premise solution.

ExaGrid aces disk-to-disk backup

(Matt Prigge) — Thu, 03 Jan 2013 15:45:00 GMT

ExaGrid's unique scale-out grid architecture makes for powerful, scalable, and uncomplicated disk-based backup and deduplication

Hitachi, EMC and Fujitsu winners as storage market weakens

(Mikael Ricknäs) — Thu, 13 Dec 2012 13:26:00 GMT

Growth in the storage market slowed down during the third quarter, but vendors such as Hitachi, EMC and Fujitsu still had a good three months thanks in part to sales of high-end systems.

By 2020, there will be 5,200 GB of data for every person on Earth

lmearian@computerworld.com (Lucas Mearian) — Tue, 11 Dec 2012 10:29:00 GMT

During the next eight years, the amount of digital data produced will exceed 40 zettabytes -- the equivalent of 5,200 GB of data for every man, woman and child on Earth, according to an updated Digital Universe study released today.

VMware makes a play for developers

(Paul Krill) — Mon, 10 Dec 2012 11:09:00 GMT

Pivotal Initiative lumps multiple app dev, big data and cloud efforts under a single umbrella

IT shops will become consultants instead of tech managers, says EMC's CIO

lmearian@computerworld.com (Lucas Mearian) — Fri, 07 Dec 2012 21:57:00 GMT

An EMC executive said customers should have a sense of urgency about deploying IT as a service via a cloud infrastructure, but not everyone at the data storage company's user forum agreed with him.

External disk storage shipments surpass 7 exabytes in Q3

lmearian@computerworld.com (Lucas Mearian) — Fri, 07 Dec 2012 11:00:00 GMT

IDC today released its Disk Storage Tracker, showing steady growth in external storage systems worldwide for the third quarter.

EMC's Project X may have wide impact on data centers

(Stephen Lawson) — Wed, 05 Dec 2012 00:36:00 GMT

EMC plans to sell flash storage for use across data centers and is developing software to tie all those components together.

EMC and VMware spin out big data/cloud division

(Brandon Butler) — Tue, 04 Dec 2012 16:44:00 GMT

VMware and EMC today confirmed rumors that have been circulating for weeks that it would spin out its big data and platform as a service (PaaS) cloud products into a new division within the company named Pivotal Initiative, which will be led by former VMware chief Paul Maritz.

Mobile device management vendors unveil a slate of new tools

mhamblen@computerworld.com (Matt Hamblen) — Tue, 13 Nov 2012 14:03:00 GMT

IBM, Good Technology and several other mobile device and app management software vendors today separately announced a variety of new or enhanced products.

EMC's Tucci: Global economy hinges on U.S. budget deal

(Elizabeth Heichler) — Mon, 12 Nov 2012 18:12:00 GMT

EMC CEO Joe Tucci on Monday called for CEOs to put pressure on U.S. politicians to strike a budget deal, saying that the direction of the domestic and global economy depends on it.

Hitachi releases new 1.6TB flash modules

lmearian@computerworld.com (Lucas Mearian) — Thu, 08 Nov 2012 11:00:00 GMT

HDS's new flash module is built specifically for enterprise-class workloads. The 1.6TB module fits in an 8U flash chassis. Each enclosure can scale from 6.4TB up to 76.8TB.

EMC releases upgrades to its document content management line

lmearian@computerworld.com (Lucas Mearian) — Tue, 06 Nov 2012 10:51:00 GMT

EMC today unveiled upgrades across its Documentum content management and Captiva document capture product lines.

Juniper trimming up for a sale?

(Jim Duffy) — Wed, 17 Oct 2012 21:43:00 GMT

Those layoffs happening at Juniper might be to dress the company up for a sale.

HDS releases converged infrastructure platform

lmearian@computerworld.com (Lucas Mearian) — Tue, 09 Oct 2012 11:30:00 GMT

Hitachi Data Systems said that it is offering a pretested architecture that combines storage, servers, networking switches and virtualization software

EMC names new CTO to oversee cloud, big data strategy

lmearian@computerworld.com (Lucas Mearian) — Wed, 03 Oct 2012 17:46:00 GMT

EMC appointed former Huawei Technologies executive John Roese as its new CTO. Roese will play a key role in shaping EMC's technology strategy. Roese replaces Jeff Nick, who has been EMC's CTO for eight years.

5 Enterprise Alternatives to Dropbox

johnmbrandon@gmail.com (John Brandon) — Wed, 19 Sep 2012 12:40:00 GMT

The recent Dropbox data breach has many IT executives telling employees not to use it. These five products offer the administrative and security features that may restore their faith in cloud data storage.

First look: Driving VMware vSphere 5.1

(Paul Venezia) — Tue, 11 Sep 2012 15:18:00 GMT

VMware's new, Flash-based Web management GUI is easy to like, but it comes with a few gotchas

Dell, EMC, Cisco Tackle BYOD With Desktop Virtualization

(Rob Enderle) — Fri, 31 Aug 2012 14:13:00 GMT

As the Bring Your Own Device trend gains traction, Dell and EMC/Cisco are taking different approaches to desktop virtualization. Generally, Dell aims for PC users in the midmarket, while the EMC/Cisco partnership may work better for enterprises that have to consider the iPad. Both tacks are worth a look, though.

Applied Micro shows 64-bit ARM server chip, ignites x86 debate

(James Niccolai) — Thu, 30 Aug 2012 18:23:00 GMT

Applied Micro lifted the curtain on its 64-bit ARM-based server platform at the Hot Chips conference this week and ignited a debate about whether ARM is the right architecture for the data center.

Zend, VMware partner on PHP cloud deployments

(Paul Krill) — Wed, 29 Aug 2012 10:27:00 GMT

Integration between Zend Server PHP and VMware vFabric Application Director automates process of moving from virtualized to cloud environments

VMware vSphere 5.1 includes backup, deduplication

lmearian@computerworld.com (Lucas Mearian) — Mon, 27 Aug 2012 21:09:00 GMT

VMware announced today that vSphere 5.1 includes backup capability complete with deduplication powered by EMC's Avamar software.

NASA rover Curiosity blasts first Martian rock with laser

sgaudin@computerworld.com (Sharon Gaudin) — Mon, 20 Aug 2012 10:45:00 GMT

NASA's Mars rover Curiosity successfully tested its laser on Sunday, blasting a fist-size Martian rock and analyzing its makeup.

EMC rolls out Symmetrix disk library for mainframes

mhamblen@computerworld.com (Matt Hamblen) — Mon, 06 Aug 2012 17:11:00 GMT

DLm8000 is the first EMC disk library for mainframe that will leverage its flagship VMAX storage teshnology.

EMCs interest in China, servers continues to grow

lmearian@computerworld.com (Lucas Mearian) — Wed, 01 Aug 2012 20:43:00 GMT

Its new partnership with Lenovo takes EMC even further into the data center. With plans now to begin selling storage and servers in the Chinese market, could that partnership stress EMC's existing relationships?

Lenovo, EMC join forces on storage, servers

(Michael Kan) — Wed, 01 Aug 2012 03:39:00 GMT

Lenovo and EMC will team up to develop and sell server and storage technology, with an eye to the Chinese market, the companies said.

Wall Street Beat: Tech results mixed, but show areas of strength

(Marc Ferranti) — Fri, 20 Jul 2012 20:16:00 GMT

Quarterly earnings from some of the biggest tech companies in the world this week were decidedly mixed, but showed some signs of strength, particularly in enterprise IT spending.

EMC confirms CEO change at VMware

(Chris Kanaracus) — Tue, 17 Jul 2012 21:34:00 GMT

Paul Maritz will step down from his role as CEO of VMware, to be replaced by EMC Chief Operating Officer Pat Gelsinger, EMC confirmed on Tuesday.

MicroStrategy upgrades BI platform for visual analysis, Hadoop

(Chris Kanaracus) — Tue, 10 Jul 2012 12:08:00 GMT

MicroStrategy is set to unveil an array of enhancements to its BI (business intelligence) software platform, covering areas such as visual data-exploration and the open-source Hadoop data-processing framework, during the MicroStrategy World conference in Amsterdam on Tuesday.

Nearly 10 years later, EMC's NetWorker hits Version 8.0

(Stephen Lawson) — Tue, 10 Jul 2012 09:01:00 GMT

EMC is updating its NetWorker backup and recovery software on Tuesday with an eye to greater efficiency, tighter integration with other EMC products, and cloud computing.

Don't get shortchanged by data center bundles

(Matt Prigge) — Wed, 27 Jun 2012 10:00:00 GMT

As top-tier infrastructure vendors bundle their hardware, the customer often comes out with less. Insider (registration required)

Bye-bye, tapes: How to get the right disk backup appliance

(Matt Prigge) — Tue, 26 Jun 2012 17:12:00 GMT

Deduplicating backup appliances have become very popular, but choosing the right one means looking beyond deduplication. Insider (registration required)

Worldwide disk storage system revenues grow 7%, NAS sales dip

lmearian@computerworld.com (Lucas Mearian) — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 18:40:00 GMT

Worldwide external disk storage systems factory revenues posted year-over-year growth of 7.1%, totaling just under $6 billion, in the first quarter of 2012, according to IDC.