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EMC plans VMware integration for VFCache storage

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 announces general availability of VFCache 'Project Lightning'

EMC has launched a product that combines flash and caching technology to improve the performance of applications.
EMC launches Isilon NAS with Hadoop integration

EMC has launched its latest Isilon Network Attached Storage (NAS) offering, introducing native support for the open source analytics platform Hadoop, based on Apache.
EMC CEO Joe Tucci warns disk storage shortages will continue

EMC CEO Joe Tucci offered a high-level overview of the company's product roadmap yesterday, which includes a refresh of its VMAX Symmetrix array, its VNXe hybrid array and the general availability of its embedded flash storage product for servers.
Former US government CIO Vivek Kundra joins Salesforce

Vivek Kundra, the former CIO of the US government, has been appointed executive vice president of emerging markets at Salesforce.com.
Computacenter helps Jaguar supplier deploy IBM SAN

Unipart Logistics, a supply chain service company that delivers parts for Jaguar cars, has been working with Computacenter to implement a new storage solution for the company enterprise resource planning (ERP) system.
NetApp announces hike in hard disk prices

NetApp announced it will raise the price of disk drives in its storage systems from 5% to 15% in the wake of Thailand's flooding, which affected the world hard drive supply.
Storage vendor Imation buys deduplication assets from Nine Technology

Imation today announced it has acquired deduplication technology from Nine Technology.
EMC working to boost acceptance of public and private clouds, says CMO

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 Jeremy Burton.
EMC's Greenplum build single data analytics platform

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.

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Cisco catching up with the cloud

The only place Cisco plays directly in the cloud is in the SaaS arena with its WebEx collaboration, video and telepresence services, which account for about $1 billion of Cisco's $40 billion in annual revenue.
Proceed with caution when adopting Hadoop

Companies should take a pragmatic approach to implementing Hadoop for their "big data" requirements, a new report released by analyst firm Forrester Research urges.
NoSQL offers speed and scalability advantagees

Users of NoSQL databases and data processing frameworks such as CouchDB and Hadoop are deploying these new technologies for their speed, scalability and flexibility, judging from a number of sessions at the NoSQL Now conference being held this week.
Analytics firm Polk expands performance with Oracle Exadata machines

Oracle wants to triple the number of installed Exadata database machines to 3,000 in its current fiscal year, and it could get there by tapping existing customers like automotive analytics vendor Polk.
How Apple will use 12 petabytes of storage

Apple is ordering a heaping helping of data storage - 12 petabytes, to be exact - from Isilon Systems, a division of EMC that specialises in scale-out storage. Cupertino plans to use that cavernous space to manage video downloads of its iTunes' customers, an anonymous insider at EMC tells StorageNewsletter.com.
TiVo chooses virtualisation for agile provisioning

TiVo found a way to create a more agile provisioning method and offer developers cloned databases with which they could test code without worrying about blowing up their joint test environment.
Open source virtualisation technology to watch

In addition to the commercial products, there is a vibrant open source virtualisation ecosystem that CIOs can consider for public and private cloud infrastructure.
How can IT shops reduce server virtualisation's impact on storage?

Virtualising x86 infrastructure isn't just a one-step process - as servers change, the whole data centre must change as well. While server hypervisors such as VMware's ESX, Microsoft's Hyper-V and Xen can make IT more efficient and cost-effective, many of the virtualisation advantages can be cancelled out when data centres rely on technology and processes that haven't been updated for the virtualisation age.
Top 12 most popular green IT products

IT managers are thinking green from the desktop monitor to the recycling bin to the copy machine. Here are the dozen most popular tools and technologies that cut energy costs, boost data centre efficiency and promote green IT practices.
Top 10 Cisco rivals

Competition is only getting tougher for Cisco as it continues to expand in 30 or so new markets while attempting to maintain growth in its core routing and switching businesses.

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Generating proven business value with EMC next-generation backup and recovery

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EMC's VNX family

EMC's states there two unified storage platforms VNX and VNXe are "optimised for virtualised IT". This white paper will review the validity of these assertions against the market needs.
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EMC Backup and recovery solution helps safeguard bank transactions

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Modernising backups to accelerate the journey to virtualisation

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