Employees can back up and restore data from their own systems using the enterprisewide platform
EMC is extending its Avamar backup software to all parts of an enterprise's infrastructure with clients for PC and Mac desktops and laptops.
Will sell 'Vblocks' - preconfigured Cisco, EMC, VMware combination packages
Cisco, EMC and VMware last week unveiled the much rumored joint venture to sell their products to companies wanting to build internal clouds. Called Acadia (for who knows what reason), the joint venture is a collaboration between the three companies that will launch in 2010 and sell what they call Vblocks, preconfigured packages of Cisco UCS blade servers, EMC storage gear, VMware virtualization software and EMC Ionix management software.
With a 75-year retention requirement and 5 petabytes of data, the US Department of Veterans Affairs faces major challenges
With a 75-year retention requirement and 5 petabytes of data, the US Department of Veterans Affairs faces major challenges when it comes to storing data in its primary data center in Austin, Texas.
HP's converged infrastructure, Cisco-EMC's joint Acadia convergence sign of return
A certain truth about the big IT vendors is they want to sell as much as possible to any one customer and now, with virtualization, cloud computing and very tight IT budgets, they believe they have an opening.
VMware and Intel also have supporting roles in joint production
Cisco and EMC this week unveiled their anticipated collaboration, which will provide integrated products and services for customers building private cloud computing infrastructures.
Intel is working with several vendors to build more energy-efficient systems for cloud computing
EMC is working with Intel on a more energy-efficient version of EMC's Atmos cloud storage system that should be available in the second half of next year, the companies said Thursday.
Worldwide storage software vendors bring in $US2.8bn in revenue, down nearly 10 per cent
The storage software market showed signs of rebounding in the second quarter, but is still falling short of the pace set last year.
Once the deal closes, EMC gains new technology that helps companies manage information for discovery
EMC on Tuesday said it will buy Kazeon Systems, a company that develops products for collecting and analyzing electronic information for legal discovery.
The combination of vCenter AppSpeed with EMC's Ionix is intended to help enterprises migrate to private clouds
EMC will resell virtualization management software from VMware alongside its own Ionix management platform in an expanded partnership aimed at helping enterprises build private clouds.
The deal will allow EMC to focus on supporting private clouds
EMC has acquired FastScale Technology, a vendor of software for data centers, in an effort to focus on supporting private cloud infrastructures, the company announced Monday.
The EMC unit's box runs on Linux, has iSCSI connectivity and supports VMware
EMC Corp.'s Iomega Corp. unit yesterday introduced its next-generation quad-drive desktop NAS server, which offers a storage capacity of up to 8TB, iSCSI connectivity for block-level data transfer, multiple RAID configurations and remote access and management capabilities.
Updates from EMC enable remote replication, recovery of virtual machines
EMC Corp. today introduced new virtualization-aware capabilities for its Clariion CX4 midrange networked storage systems, which make CX4 software and disaster recovery applications aware of connected virtual machines.
EMC still needs to sort out its plans for data deduplication, he says
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.
EMC had no chance to do due diligence or get to know top Data Domain execs before acquisition bid
Earlier this month, EMC signed a US$2.1 billion agreement to acquire data deduplication specialist Data Domain, declaring victory over rival Network Appliance in a bidding war to acquire the company. The deal was remarkable because Joe Tucci, EMC's chairman, president and CEO, along with other senior EMC executives, had no opportunity to conduct the usual due diligence on Data Domain or even get to know its management team before bidding to buy the company.
EMC extends purchase offer until Wednesday
EMC has officially acquired majority ownership of storage vendor Data Domain after a bidding war with NetApp.