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.

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.

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

Cisco and NetApp today announced plans to sell a new FlexPod cloud architecture, this time as an entry-level model designed and priced for smaller workloads.

Distribution Central has signed a deal with Syncsort to distribute NetApp Syncsort Integrated Backup (NSB) locally.

IBM and Red Hat could soon be joining the ranks of OpenStack supporters, giving the open source Cloud project a big boost.

Chris Lynch wants to be Big Data's Big Daddy, with plans to back 20 young companies on the East Coast that deal with data sets characterized by "volume, velocity and variety."

Optus Business and Alphawest serve up ‘Your IT as a Service’

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Start-up Nimble Storage came out of the development stage this week with its first product -- an array that combines solid state drives (SSD) with high-capacity, cost and performance serial ATA (SATA) hard drives, acts as primary and backup storage and replicates offsite for disaster recovery.