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• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• IaaS making slow headway

  By Christine Burns | 09 April, 2012 14:30

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

• Eaton touts open-source SDK as a boon to power management

  By Jon Gold | 06 April, 2012 04:40

  UPS supplier Eaton has released a new open-source software development kit aimed at providing better accessibility and flexibility to users of its power management products.

• Cisco, EMC, VMware unite behind big data, cloud training initiative

  By Ann Bednarz | 04 April, 2012 02:43

  As the IT silos come down, tech pros need to beef up their skills to stay relevant and maximize the business benefits of cloud computing, virtualization, unified networking and big data, according to Cisco and EMC, which have teamed to offer training targeted at tech's hottest data center disciplines.

• Ex-Vertica CEO Lynch pledges to build 'high-speed railway for Big Data'

  By Bob Brown | 28 March, 2012 04:36

  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."

• EMC buys app development management firm Pivotal Labs

  By Lucas Mearian | 22 March, 2012 04:40

  EMC announced Tuesday that it has acquired application development consultancy, Pivotal Labs , which will help Greenplum customers more quickly develop software for big data business analytics through the use of methodologies and programming frameworks such as Ruby on Rails.

• Texas sets Vblock as 'preferred' tech

  By Patrick Thibodeau | 17 March, 2012 06:46

  The state of Texas has entered into new data center contracts, worth more than $1 billion, to run its massive consolidation project.

• Storage software sales hit all-time record highs

  By Lucas Mearian | 13 March, 2012 05:39

  The sales of storage software last year produced record revenues of more than $US14 billion in 2011, according to market research firm IDC .

• Wall Street Beat: Tech rides market optimism

  By Marc Ferranti | 10 March, 2012 05:04

  So far this year, the technology sector is off to its best start in the stock market since 2000, right before the dot-com bubble burst, and even though analysts have been forecasting just modest growth in IT spending, there appear to be reasons for continued optimism.