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EMC buys flash-array start-up XtremIO

lmearian@computerworld.com (Lucas Mearian) — Thu, 10 May 2012 16:53:00 GMT

EMC today confirmed that it is buying out XtremIO, the maker of flash devices, in a deal pegged at $430 million.

Hitachi announces new unified file, block storage array

lmearian@computerworld.com (Lucas Mearian) — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 10:34:00 GMT

HDS's new midrange Hitachi Unified Storage system, which is similar to EMC's VNX array and NetApp's Fabric Attached Storage, can serve up both file- and block-based data through a single management framework.

EMC gives Oracle admins backup control, deduplication

lmearian@computerworld.com (Lucas Mearian) — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 10:00:00 GMT

EMC has announced a new Data Domain Boost integration with Oracle Recovery Manager, offering data deduplication on database servers and for Oracle administrators to have direct control of Oracle backup and disaster recovery operations.

EMC reportedly in talks to buy flash maker XtremIO

lmearian@computerworld.com (Lucas Mearian) — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 16:16:00 GMT

EMC is in talks to buy flash array storage maker XtremIO for bteween $400 million and $450 million and is close to pulling the trigger on the deal, according to an Israeli publication.

Wall Street Beat: Mixed tech earnings get tepid reaction

(Marc Ferranti) — Fri, 20 Apr 2012 21:00:00 GMT

Some of the biggest names in IT reported mixed results this week for the first quarter, leading to a dip in tech stocks Friday even as some major indexes showed gains for other sectors.

EMC sees ninth quarter of double-digit growth in Q1

lmearian@computerworld.com (Lucas Mearian) — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 18:20:00 GMT

EMC today reported another quarter of double-digit revenue in Q1, with revenues hitting $5.1 billion. VMware was, once again, a leader in product sales with 25% year-over-year revenue growth.

EMC unveils preconfigured private cloud for partners

lmearian@computerworld.com (Lucas Mearian) — Thu, 12 Apr 2012 13:01:00 GMT

EMC, along with Cisco, Brocade, Intel, Citrix and others, announced a pre-configured private cloud architecture that it plans to sell exclusively through channel partners.

Cisco, EMC, VMware unite behind big data, cloud training initiative

(Ann Bednarz) — Tue, 03 Apr 2012 16:43:00 GMT

As the IT silos come down, tech pros need to beef up their skills to stay relevant and maximize the business benefits of cloud computing, virtualization, unified networking and big data, according to Cisco and EMC, which have teamed to offer training targeted at tech's hottest data center disciplines.

EMC buys app development management firm Pivotal Labs

lmearian@computerworld.com (Lucas Mearian) — Wed, 21 Mar 2012 17:19:00 GMT

EMC plans to buy Pivotal Labs, an application development consultancy that focuses on helping users create applications to run in big data environments.

PCIe SSD consortium, product test lab created

lmearian@computerworld.com (Lucas Mearian) — Wed, 14 Mar 2012 16:56:00 GMT

The University of New Hampshire has created a consortium to develop a test suite to ensure interoperability between PCIe SSDs that conform to the Non-Volatile Memory Express specification.

Storage software sales hit all-time record highs

lmearian@computerworld.com (Lucas Mearian) — Mon, 12 Mar 2012 18:23:00 GMT

The sales of storage software in 2011 produced record revenues of more than $14 billion, IDC said.

Wall Street Beat: Tech rides market optimism

(Marc Ferranti) — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 18:04:00 GMT

So far this year, the technology sector is off to its best start in the stock market since 2000, right before the dot-com bubble burst, and even though analysts have been forecasting just modest growth in IT spending, there appear to be reasons for continued optimism.

EMC VNXe 3100: Sweet entry-level NAS and SAN

(Matt Prigge) — Wed, 07 Mar 2012 11:15:00 GMT

EMC delivers an all-purpose, unified storage array tailor made for the IT generalist and the small-business budget

Disk storage system sales in Q4 top $8.5B, 6.2 petabytes

lmearian@computerworld.com (Lucas Mearian) — Fri, 02 Mar 2012 16:23:00 GMT

The fourth quarter of 2011 saw healthy external disk storage system growth, as did the year as a whole, with revenues growing by 10.6% to $23.5 billion.

Industry heavies unite to float 'The Science Cloud'

(Brandon Butler) — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 20:48:00 GMT

More than a dozen international IT firms have partnered to create Helix Nebula - The Science Cloud, which will be used by European researchers to provide cloud-based computing support for scientific discoveries.

Vatican secret archive opened in EMC-sponsored exhibition

(IDG reporters) — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 19:14:00 GMT

Documents from the Vatican's secret archive are set to be opened in an exhibition in Rome, sponsored by IT vendor EMC.

RSA teams to bolster security for Apple, Google, RIM devices

(Ellen Messmer) — Tue, 28 Feb 2012 16:35:00 GMT

RSA, the security division of EMC, said it would collaborate with several mobile and virtualization platform vendors to integrate RSA two-factor authentication and risk-detection technologies.

MIT event shows the many faces, challenges of big data

(Chris Kanaracus) — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 21:04:00 GMT

The burgeoning tech industry movement around big data is churning up a variety of new applications, but remains an evolving field that faces lingering challenges, judging from an event held Wednesday at a Microsoft research facility in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

OCZ launches 16TB flash card

lmearian@computerworld.com (Lucas Mearian) — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 15:15:00 GMT

OCZ Technology released a PCIe-based NAND flash card that offers five times the capacity and three times the performance of its previous generation card. The product is aimed at cloud environments by speeding up I/O performance in servers.

EMC and VMware team with Atos to create European cloud company Canopy

(Peter Sayer) — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 15:03:00 GMT

EMC and VMware are teaming with French IT services company Atos to create a European cloud infrastructure provider, Canopy, the companies announced Wednesday.

DOJ approves Google acquisition of Motorola Mobility

(Grant Gross) — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 23:24:00 GMT

The U.S. Department of Justice has approved Google's acquisition of mobile-phone and tablet maker Motorola Mobility for about US$12.5 billion, following the European Commission's approval earlier in the day.

Startup launches array tuned for unstructured, structured data

lmearian@computerworld.com (Lucas Mearian) — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 11:00:00 GMT

Startup Starboard Storage Systems came out of quiet mode with its first product: a storage array that discerns between structured and unstructured data in order to tailor I/O performance. It's also targeted at virtualized server environments.

Oracle stakes claim in R with Advanced Analytics launch

(Chris Kanaracus) — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 13:03:00 GMT

Oracle is hoping to carve out a prominent place in the world of R, the open-source statistical modeling language with roots in academia but an increasingly high profile in enterprise IT shops. It announced a new Advanced Analytics product on Wednesday that ties R to its database and family of software-hardware appliances.

EMC to flesh out VFCache with VMware integration, other additions

(Stephen Lawson) — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 00:38:00 GMT

EMC has big plans this year for the VFCache flash storage it introduced on Monday, with the coming enhancements including SSDs, 1TB cards, integration with VMware and less expensive MLC flash media.

EMC launches 'Project Lightning' PCIe cards

lmearian@computerworld.com (Lucas Mearian) — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 21:19:00 GMT

EMC today announced the availability of its 'Project Lightning' PCIe flash cards, dubbed VFCache, which install into application servers to increase I/O performance.

EMC ramps up flash game with VFCache, 'Thunder' appliance

(Stephen Lawson) — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 08:06:00 GMT

EMC is now shipping its long-awaited entry in the server-based flash storage market while laying the groundwork for a future appliance based on the same technology.

2012: The year storage becomes a celebrity

lmearian@computerworld.com (Lucas Mearian) — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 10:54:00 GMT

This promises to be a break-out year for storage technology with the use of more NAND flash in devices and smarter storage that can be tailored to applications.

Wall Street Beat: Tech shines as earnings come in strong

(Marc Ferranti) — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 20:43:00 GMT

This week's tsunami of tech earnings, led by Apple's jaw-dropping quarterly report, has given market watchers something to cheer about and also points to industry shifts around tablets and cloud computing.

Mozy releases 'Stash' file syncing service

lmearian@computerworld.com (Lucas Mearian) — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 19:07:00 GMT

Mozy released the beta of a new file synchronization service called Stash, which allows photos, videos or documents to be uploaded automatically to the cloud and shared across any device.

EMC lays out product roadmap, warns of disk shortages

lmearian@computerworld.com (Lucas Mearian) — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 22:18:00 GMT

During his company's year-end earnings call, EMC CEO Joe Tucci warned that hard disk drive supplies will be an issue through 2012 and said all major products will see refreshes this year.

EMC's Tucci changes mind, to stay on as CEO into 2013

lmearian@computerworld.com (Lucas Mearian) — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 17:57:00 GMT

EMC reported record revenues totaling more than $20 billion in 2011, and said that Joe Tucci has changed his mind and will stay on as CEO through 2013.

NetApp's Tom Georgens: How we got big, stayed nimble, and view storage today

(John Gallant) — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 22:33:00 GMT

In an exclusive interview, NetApp CEO Tom Georgens talks about virtualization, the private cloud, and how his company defines big data

Your identity up for grabs

(Mark Gibbs) — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 17:35:00 GMT

Security was a big issue in 2011 with more sophisticated and a wider range of threats than ever before wasting even more of everyone's time at a cost of billions of dollars.

NetApp becomes latest vendor to raise disk drive prices

lmearian@computerworld.com (Lucas Mearian) — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 20:59:00 GMT

NetApp announced it will raise the price of disk drives in its storage systems by 5% to 15% in the wake of Thailand's flooding, which affected the world hard drive supply.

2012 tech predictions: From IDG's editors worldwide

(David Bromley) — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 16:41:00 GMT

Consumerization of IT is the consensus choice of the new year's major technology force, one that will manifest itself in several forms

Apple's purchase of Anobit would give it a leg up on rivals

lmearian@computerworld.com (Lucas Mearian) — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 12:11:00 GMT

Having been the largest consumer of flash memory, Apple will gain a leg up on competitors with its purchase of Anobit, since the deal will enable the company to use the cheapest chips in its products while maintaining a high level of resilience and performance.

2012: Virtual desktops are all the rage

(Tim Greene) — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 11:29:00 GMT

As budgets are locked in for 2012 it's time to aggressively expand server virtualization, and for those who have been held back by cost, to consider virtual desktops.

Imation buys dedupe backup vendor Nine Technology

lmearian@computerworld.com (Lucas Mearian) — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 14:44:00 GMT

Imation today announced it has acquired deduplication technology from Nine Technology.

EMC works to boost acceptance of public and private clouds

(Tim Greene) — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 17:31:00 GMT

EMC has tied its fortunes to the future of cloud computing and is working hard to change the hearts and minds of IT executives so they will embrace the same vision, according to the firm's chief marketing officer.

Big data has potential but requires care

(Stephen Lawson) — Sat, 10 Dec 2011 01:03:00 GMT

The proliferation of large-scale data sets is just beginning to change business and science around the world, but enterprises need to prepare in order to gain the most advantage from their information, panelists said at a Silicon Valley event this week.

EMC's Greenplum goes big in data analytics

(Stephen Lawson) — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 00:00:00 GMT

The Greenplum division of EMC is building a single data analytics platform that can crunch both structured and unstructured data and give a broad range of users the tools to study an enterprise's information.

Skip data tiering, go directly to all-SSD storage, Forrester says

lmearian@computerworld.com (Lucas Mearian) — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 17:18:00 GMT

A new class of all-SSD arrays that use compression and deduplication are challenging tiered storage infrastructures with better performance at about the same cost, according to Forrester Research.

EMC adds Linux support, metering to Atmos cloud software

lmearian@computerworld.com (Lucas Mearian) — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 11:01:00 GMT

EMC today announced its first upgrade to the Atmos Cloud Delivery Platform, adding metering capabilities and support for Linux.

One company's move to go virtual leads to I/O constraints

lmearian@computerworld.com (Lucas Mearian) — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 11:02:00 GMT

Austin Radiological Association has virtualized a quarter of its server and desktop infrastructure and hopes to hit 100% within a year. But the move has caused storage I/O bandwidth problems.

DataDirect Network releases array with massive 40GB/sec performance

lmearian@computerworld.com (Lucas Mearian) — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 22:23:00 GMT

DataDirect Network's new SFA12K series storage array represents a new high-water mark for networked storage performance with the ability to scale to 6.7 petabytes in two racks and offer up to 40GB/sec performance.

RSA and McAfee add cloud security offerings

(Ellen Messmer) — Mon, 07 Nov 2011 14:29:00 GMT

Cloud security options are set to widen today as RSA teams with Microsoft and Citrix to support use of RSA SecurID authentication, and separately, McAfee unveils enhancements to the McAfee Cloud Security Platform.

Updated Sybase IQ supports Hadoop, MapReduce, 'Big Data'

(Chris Kanaracus) — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 13:10:00 GMT

Sybase is hoping its IQ analytic database can make its mark in the burgeoning "Big Data" market with an array of new features, including native integration with the open-source MapReduce and Hadoop programming frameworks for large-scale data processing.

Is Brocade once again for sale?

lmearian@computerworld.com (Lucas Mearian) — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 20:15:00 GMT

According to a published report, Brocade is again making it known that it has placed itself on the selling block, hoping to drum up interest in suitors with enough money to cover its more than $2 billion market cap.

EMC to put hardware in servers, VMs in storage

lmearian@computerworld.com (Lucas Mearian) — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 10:00:00 GMT

At EMC's recent user forum, president and chief operating officer Pat Gelsinger expounded on EMC's plans to enter the application server hardware market and begin porting VMware virtual machines onto storage arrays. Gelsinger also said EMC didn't want its 10-year partnership with Dell to end.

Nudging IT forward

(John Dix) — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 10:33:00 GMT

There is basic agreement on the nirvana vision for the next-generation data center, but the tricky part is getting there from here.