News

• EMC backs its channel with Cloud solutions

  By Mike Gee | 22 May, 2012 12:35

  EMC has announced a bunch of new initiatives and products to enable channel partners to accelerate their customers’ journey to the Cloud.

• EMC acquires Syncplicity for cloud file management

  By Stephen Lawson | 22 May, 2012 11:10

  EMC has acquired Syncplicity, an enterprise file-management service provider, for an undisclosed sum.

• EMC unveils slew of product upgrades, new VMAX array

  By Lucas Mearian | 21 May, 2012 23:11

  At its annual user conference today, EMC announced upgrades across most of its major product lines, including a new high-end Symmetrix VMAX array with up to 4PB capacity and twice the performance of its predecessor.

• Why Israel is a hotbed for flash storage innovation

  By Lucas Mearian | 17 May, 2012 19:48

  At the same time EMC was in Israel trying to strike a deal to buy XtremeIO, NetApp and Dell were also there vying for the flash storage array maker's intellectual property.

• Up next for the Cloud: Big data analytics?

  By Brandon Butler | 11 May, 2012 06:31

  In an effort to diversify its Cloud offerings, NaviSite - a Time Warner Cable Cloud computing and managed hosting company - announced plans to offer storage service for customers in what one analyst says could the beginning of service providers looking to offer big data analysis from the Cloud.

• EMC buys flash-array start-up XtremIO

  By Lucas Mearian | 11 May, 2012 03:14

  Advancing its roadmap toward increased use of flash storage, EMC today announced that it has purchased start-up all-flash array maker XtremIO.

• Government moves to the cloud, slowly

  By Brandon Butler | 26 April, 2012 07:22

  A year and a half after the U.S. Office of Management and Budget declared a "cloud first" strategy requiring government organizations to at least consider cloud-based services when launching new applications and IT services, experts say the government is only moving slowly to the cloud, and it has a long way to go.

• Hitachi announces new unified file, block storage array

  By Lucas Mearian | 24 April, 2012 20:53

  Hitachi Data Systems today announced a new midrange storage line that allows access to both block and file-based data through a single management interface.

• EMC gives Oracle admins backup control, deduplication

  By Lucas Mearian | 24 April, 2012 20:11

  EMC today announced it has qualified its Data Domain Boost software for use with Oracle Recovery Manager, allowing data deduplication to take place on Oracle backup servers prior to crossing a storage network.

• EMC reportedly in talks to buy flash maker XtremIO

  By Lucas Mearian | 24 April, 2012 02:30

  EMC is in talks to acquire start-up XtremIO, a San Jose-based maker of all-flash arrays, according to a report in the Israeli business publication Globes.

• Wall Street Beat: Mixed tech earnings earn tepid reaction

  By Marc Ferranti | 21 April, 2012 07:00

  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

  By Lucas Mearian | 20 April, 2012 04:42

  EMC today announced its ninth consecutive quarter of year-over-year double-digit revenue growth with first-quarter consolidated revenue of $5.1 billion. That's an increase of 11% compared with the same quarter in 2011.

• Are IBM, Cisco and Oracle IT platforms really comparable?

  By Jim Duffy | 13 April, 2012 22:39

  IBM's new PureSystems integrated data center offering is drawing comparisons to Cisco's UCS and other convergence platforms from leading IT vendors.

• VMware: Cloud Foundry is like Linux for the cloud

  By Paul Krill | 13 April, 2012 20:09

  EMC VMware is likening its Cloud Foundry PaaS (platform as a service) to Linux for the cloud, serving as an application portability layer.

• EMC to tackle private-cloud complexity with all-in-one VSPEX platform

  By Stephen Lawson | 13 April, 2012 07:19

  EMC on Thursday gave more enterprises a way to build all-in-one private cloud systems, providing an alternative to the VBlock architecture that it developed with Cisco Systems and VMware for customers who need to integrate other vendors' technology.