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  • EMC's Syncplicity to gain hybrid-cloud storage capability

    Only a year after acquiring Syncplicity, EMC is getting ready to make the company's enterprise file management system work with hybrid clouds.

  • VMware sells WaveMaker assets to Pramati

    A little more than two years after purchasing Java tool vendor WaveMaker, VMware has sold the assets of the company to the Pramati software engineering firm.

  • Pivotal puts PaaS in the spotlight

    In launching Pivotal, the partnership of EMC, VMware and GE is attempting to refocus the conversation in the market about how a new generation of applications that use big data will be built.

  • Pivotal launched from VMware, EMC technologies

    Making good on a promise made in December, VMware and parent company EMC have launched a new company, called Pivotal, to offer an enterprise-ready data analysis platform as a service (PaaS) based on software from both companies.

  • EMC's storage business keeps growing while net profit shrinks slightly

    EMC reported first-quarter revenue rose 6 percent to US$5.39 billion, while net income fell about 1 percent year-over year to $580 million as costs rose.

  • OpenStack gains momentum as vendors give Grizzly a bear hug

    HP, NetApp, and an array of cloud startups roll out new cloud offerings built around OpenStack Grizzly

  • Cisco extends Microsoft support in data centre portfolio

    Cisco last week extended its data center product line to support Microsoft's Windows Server 2012 hypervisor and VM management features to more tightly align their respective data centre and cloud architectures for joint customers.

  • EMC teams with Avaya (not Cisco) on communication pods

    Two stalwarts in the enterprise IT market joined forces today to release a unified communications stack that integrates hardware from EMC, virtualisation technology from VMware and communications apps from Avaya. Perhaps most interesting about the news, though, is a company that was not involved: Cisco.

  • Flash storage driving VDI adoption, claims Pure

    For years analysts have been predicting that virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) will be the ?next big thing,? but the concept is still failing to set the world on fire. Many organisations, while supporting the ideas behind VDI integration, have not yet taken the final leap ? primarily due to concerns about cost and performance.

  • Cisco lays off 734 or 1% of workforce

    Cisco this week reduced its workforce by about 1% -- or 734 people - as the company realigns to face the advent of software-defined networking, cloud computing and its impact on routing and switching.

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  • Dell networking chief: taking on Cisco in the data centre

    It is just over a year since Dell completed its acquisition of Force10 Networks, but the company already has big plans to challenge Cisco's dominance in the data centre.

  • Scale Computing CTO: Big Data demands scale-out storage

    The only reason that scale-up storage is still so predominant in the enterprise is because most business applications were built to run on scale-up architecture, but as demand grows for big data applications, enterprises will increasingly be looking to adopt a scale-out model.

  • Data centre in a box? The era is approaching

    Start-up SimpliVity is the latest vendor to emerge from the development stage with an all-in-one array that performs all the functions of a complete IT stack with the addition of deduplication and data replication. More companies and products are preparing similar launches.

  • Can Fibre Channel survive Ethernet's assault?

    Expensive and specialised Fibre Channel SANs have been under assault as companies consolidate data traffic over Ethernet. With Fibre Channel disks already largely eliminated from the market by SAS, can networking gear be far behind?

  • OpenStack may be gaining support from IBM but Iaas is still making slow headway

    When it comes to Infrastructure as a Service - renting on-demand compute, storage and network resources that live in a multi-tenant virtualised public cloud - midsized businesses are jumping in with both feet. But large enterprises with their own well-established data centres are still dipping their toes in the water.

  • The 10 most powerful IaaS companies in the world

    We assembled this list with help from analysts at Cloud Technology Partners, Current Analysis, Enterprise Strategy Group, Gartner, IDC and Neovise who watch the public cloud Infrastructure as a Service scene very closely. The services in this list include Amazon Web Services, Bluelock, CSC, GoGrid, IBM, OpenStack, Backspace, Savvis, Terremark and VMWare.

  • The 15 worst data security breaches of the 21st century

    Data security breaches happen daily in too many places at once to keep count. But what constitutes a huge breach versus a small one? For some perspective, we take a look at 15 of the biggest incidents in recent memory. Helping us out are security practitioners from a variety of industries, including more than a dozen members of LinkedIn's Information Security Community, who provided nominations for the list.

  • 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.

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