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• Oracle stakes claim in R with Advanced Analytics launch

  By Chris Kanaracus | 09 February, 2012 00:03

  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.

• IBM boosts flagship array speeds by 3X with SSD caching

  By Lucas Mearian | 08 February, 2012 09:21

  IBM Tuesday unveiled several upgrade options for the flagship grid-based XIV Storage System, including the ability to use solid-state drives (SSDs) as cache to increase performance by up to three times.

• EMC to flesh out VFCache with VMware integration, other additions

  By Stephen Lawson | 07 February, 2012 11:38

  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

  By Lucas Mearian | 06 February, 2012 08:32

  EMC today launched its long-awaited "Project Lightning," now called the VFCache product line, an initiative to sell PCIe-based NAND flash cards for servers as a caching element to increase I/O performance by up to 4,000 times.

• Data#3 forms strategic partnership with EMC

  By Matthew Sainsbury | 03 February, 2012 10:25

  Data#3 has announced a new partnership with EMC, one of the world’s largest storage vendors.

• Wall Street Beat: Tech shines as earnings come in strong

  By Marc Ferranti | 28 January, 2012 07:43

  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.

• New leaders emerging in WAN optimization market

  By Colin Neagle | 28 January, 2012 05:38

  In yet another sign that growing revenues are reshaping the vendor outlook in the network management sector, Gartner recently named vendor Silver Peak one of the leaders in its magic quadrant for the WAN optimization market.

• Mozy releases 'Stash' file syncing service

  By Lucas Mearian | 26 January, 2012 06:31

  Cloud storage service Mozy on Wednesday announced public beta availability of Mozy Stash , a new feature that provides customers with a method of accessing files across multiple computers and mobile devices.

• Personal Innovation Awards: Sales Excellence - Andrew Winter, EMC

  By Matthew Sainsbury | 29 November, 2010 16:26

  EMC’s WA branch might be a relatively small one, but it has developed a reputation for quality partner support, reflected in this year’s Personal Innovation, Sales Excellence award going to channel manager, Andrew Winter.

• Vendor Awards: Best Emerging Technology Initiative of the Year - Cloud ... EMC

  By Matthew Sainsbury | 29 November, 2010 16:07

  In a year that has been so dominated with discussions around cloud computing, and a year where partners of all walks have been looking to their vendors to help them on this ‘journey,’ it makes sense that the Best Emerging Technology Initiative of the Year would go to a vendor that has been clear and articulate in its cloud message.

• Q&A: EMC's David Webster talks integration and the cloud

  By Matthew Sainsbury | 07 June, 2010 11:34

  EMC recently held its annual Inform conference in Sydney. Keynote speaker, EMC President for Australia and New Zealand, David Webster, sat down with Matthew Sainsbury to discuss the event, market issues and its vendor partnerships.

• Q&A: EMC's Brian Gallagher touts the new VPLEX appliance

  By Lucas Mearian | 13 May, 2010 05:55

  Brian Gallagher , president of EMC 's Symmetrix & Virtualization Product Group, sat down with Computerworld at EMC's annual user conference, EMC World, to talk about the company's new VPLEX synchronous data replication product . Gallagher explained what differentiates it from rival products and EMC's existing offerings, such as Symmetric Remote Data Facility [SRDF] replication technology and Invista storage virtualization software.

• Interview: EMC's Gelsinger shares storage federation vision

  By Sumner Lemon | 05 April, 2010 16:17

  Pat Gelsinger made headlines in September 2009 when he left Intel to join EMC as president and COO of information infrastructure products, a group that includes the company's information storage and information security businesses. Now, Gelsinger -- who was Intel's first chief technology officer and led both the desktop products group and the digital enterprise group during his career at the chip maker -- is making waves again.

• Seizing the day

  By David Ramli | 27 October, 2009 16:33

  Plenty of kids grow up with dreams of taking to the skies as pilots, but EMC channel manager, Chris Moyle, was one of the few to make it a reality.

• Quantum CEO on EMC's buyout of Data Domain

  By Lucas Mearian | 31 July, 2009 09:05

  Now that EMC has purchased deduplication technology leader Data Domain, its reseller agreements with the likes of FalconStor Software Inc. and Quantum Corp. for the same type of single-instancing technology could be in jeopardy. Quantum resells both its tape libraries and dedupe software through EMC, sales that amount to less than 10% of its revenue.

• Interview: Setting up storage distribution business

  By Matt Sainsbury | 25 March, 2009 16:25

  New channel recruit at EMC, Leo Lynch, joined the vendor three months ago after a long tenure with HP. He talked to MATTHEW SAINSBURY about opportunities in storage, social responsibilities in enterprise and BlackBerry devices.

• SPECIAL REPORT: Hybrid transformation of the cloud

  By Jennifer O'Brien | 09 August, 2011 11:12

  For one of the world’s largest producers of zinc as well as a substantial producer of copper, lead, gold and silver, moving towards a hybrid cloud computing environment was a no-brainer.

• EMC extends deadline for its Data Domain bid

  By Grant Gross | 30 June, 2009 00:19

  EMC has extended from June 29 to July 10 the deadline on its US$1.8 billion offer to purchase all outstanding shares of storage backup vendor Data Domain, in an effort to entice Data Domain to abandon a deal with NetApp.

• EMC's New Symmetrix Array Targets Virtual Data Centers

  By Jon Brodkin | 14 April, 2009 14:17

  EMC is unveiling a new Symmetrix storage array designed to support heavily virtualized data centers with hundreds of petabytes of storage and mass quantities of virtual servers.

• Cisco, EMC, VMware form private cloud pact

  By Tim Lohman | 02 June, 2009 14:22

  The current ratio of IT spend on maintaining IT systems against innovation has become unsustainable according to EMC’s Australian president, David Webster.