Latest on EMC: News, Features, Opinions and More  Oracle stakes claim in R with Advanced Analytics launch
Oracle is hoping to carve out a prominent place in the world of R, the open-source statistical modeling language with roots in academia but an increasingly high profile in enterprise IT shops. It announced a new Advanced Analytics product on Wednesday that ties R to its database and family of software-hardware appliances. EMC to flesh out VFCache with VMware integration, other additions
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 launches 'Project Lightning' PCIe cards
EMC today announced the availability of its 'Project Lightning' PCIe flash cards, dubbed VFCache, which install into application servers to increase I/O performance. EMC ramps up flash game with VFCache, 'Thunder' appliance
EMC is now shipping its long-awaited entry in the server-based flash storage market while laying the groundwork for a future appliance based on the same technology. 2012: The year storage becomes a celebrity
This promises to be a break-out year for storage technology with the use of more NAND flash in devices and smarter storage that can be tailored to applications. Wall Street Beat: Tech shines as earnings come in strong
This week's tsunami of tech earnings, led by Apple's jaw-dropping quarterly report, has given market watchers something to cheer about and also points to industry shifts around tablets and cloud computing. Mozy releases 'Stash' file syncing service
Mozy released the beta of a new file synchronization service called Stash, which allows photos, videos or documents to be uploaded automatically to the cloud and shared across any device. EMC lays out product roadmap, warns of disk shortages
During his company's year-end earnings call, EMC CEO Joe Tucci warned that hard disk drive supplies will be an issue through 2012 and said all major products will see refreshes this year. EMC's Tucci changes mind, to stay on as CEO into 2013
EMC reported record revenues totaling more than $20 billion in 2011, and said that Joe Tucci has changed his mind and will stay on as CEO through 2013. NetApp's Tom Georgens: How we got big, stayed nimble, and view storage today
In an exclusive interview, NetApp CEO Tom Georgens talks about virtualization, the private cloud, and how his company defines big data Your identity up for grabs
Security was a big issue in 2011 with more sophisticated and a wider range of threats than ever before wasting even more of everyone's time at a cost of billions of dollars. NetApp becomes latest vendor to raise disk drive prices
NetApp announced it will raise the price of disk drives in its storage systems by 5% to 15% in the wake of Thailand's flooding, which affected the world hard drive supply. 2012 tech predictions: From IDG's editors worldwide
Consumerization of IT is the consensus choice of the new year's major technology force, one that will manifest itself in several forms Apple's purchase of Anobit would give it a leg up on rivals
Having been the largest consumer of flash memory, Apple will gain a leg up on competitors with its purchase of Anobit, since the deal will enable the company to use the cheapest chips in its products while maintaining a high level of resilience and performance. 2012: Virtual desktops are all the rage
As budgets are locked in for 2012 it's time to aggressively expand server virtualization, and for those who have been held back by cost, to consider virtual desktops. Imation buys dedupe backup vendor Nine Technology
Imation today announced it has acquired deduplication technology from Nine Technology. EMC works to boost acceptance of public and private clouds
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. Big data has potential but requires care
The proliferation of large-scale data sets is just beginning to change business and science around the world, but enterprises need to prepare in order to gain the most advantage from their information, panelists said at a Silicon Valley event this week. EMC's Greenplum goes big in data analytics
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. Skip data tiering, go directly to all-SSD storage, Forrester says
A new class of all-SSD arrays that use compression and deduplication are challenging tiered storage infrastructures with better performance at about the same cost, according to Forrester Research. EMC adds Linux support, metering to Atmos cloud software
EMC today announced its first upgrade to the Atmos Cloud Delivery Platform, adding metering capabilities and support for Linux. One company's move to go virtual leads to I/O constraints
Austin Radiological Association has virtualized a quarter of its server and desktop infrastructure and hopes to hit 100% within a year. But the move has caused storage I/O bandwidth problems. DataDirect Network releases array with massive 40GB/sec performance
DataDirect Network's new SFA12K series storage array represents a new high-water mark for networked storage performance with the ability to scale to 6.7 petabytes in two racks and offer up to 40GB/sec performance.
RSA and McAfee add cloud security offerings
Cloud security options are set to widen today as RSA teams with Microsoft and Citrix to support use of RSA SecurID authentication, and separately, McAfee unveils enhancements to the McAfee Cloud Security Platform. Updated Sybase IQ supports Hadoop, MapReduce, 'Big Data'
Sybase is hoping its IQ analytic database can make its mark in the burgeoning "Big Data" market with an array of new features, including native integration with the open-source MapReduce and Hadoop programming frameworks for large-scale data processing. Is Brocade once again for sale?
According to a published report, Brocade is again making it known that it has placed itself on the selling block, hoping to drum up interest in suitors with enough money to cover its more than $2 billion market cap.
EMC to put hardware in servers, VMs in storage
At EMC's recent user forum, president and chief operating officer Pat Gelsinger expounded on EMC's plans to enter the application server hardware market and begin porting VMware virtual machines onto storage arrays. Gelsinger also said EMC didn't want its 10-year partnership with Dell to end. Nudging IT forward
There is basic agreement on the nirvana vision for the next-generation data center, but the tricky part is getting there from here. EMC unveils all-SSD VNX, high bandwidth arrays
EMC today announced the availability of an all-solid state drive midrange VNX array with 10X the performance of previous models, as well as a high bandwidth option for its hard drive VNX models, offering 50% more bandwidth. NAS shoot-out: Iomega StorCenter px6-300d
Iomega's free and easy replication and remote access services put a shine on the StorCenter Insider (registration required) EMC reports strong Q3 revenue, profit growth
EMC today reported sales nearly $5 billion in revenue in the third quarter, an increase of 18% from the same period last year. Dell ends 10-year reseller relationship with EMC
Dell announced it has ended a decadelong reseller relationship with EMC this month through which it sold more than a billion dollars worth of midrange and entry-level storage products. EMC, VCE announce tighter Vblock integration
EMC and the Virtual Computing Environment alliance Monday announced upgrades that more tightly integrate its management interface with VMware's vCloud director and vCenter Server tools. RSA chief says two groups for SecurID breach
Six weeks after EMC's RSA security division saw its SecurID system hit by hackers, RSA president Tom Heiser met with the CIO of a large global medical device company. vSphere5 sets the virtualization bar
VSphere 5.0, the latest iteration of VMware's "Cloud Operating System," boasts a wealth of updates, including new tools to manage fleets of VMs, and vast tiers of virtualized, vMotion-enabled storage links. EMC adds unstructured big-data analytics to Greenplum platform
EMC announced new software capability in its Hadoop Data Computing Appliance that allows users to mix and match unstructured and structured data analytics platforms. Mac virtualization face-off: VMware Fusion 4 vs. Parallels Desktop 7
Neither Fusion nor Parallels offer major improvements for Windows users, but they add welcome support for Mac OS X Lion virtual machines Bank of England buys EMC SAN
The Bank of England has signed a contract with EMC to expand data storage with new SAN devices, as it considers rolling out virtual desktops to staff. Storage shipments keep surging, IDC says
Enterprises and service providers spent more money on storage in the second quarter, emboldened by growing IT budgets, research company IDC will report on Friday. VMworld brings flurry of third-party product launches
While VMware had no shortage of new and updated products to debut at its VMworld conference, being held this week in Las Vegas, many VMware partners and competitors introduced their own offerings at the show as well. Was this the e-mail that took down RSA?
"I forward this file to you for review. Please open and view it." NoSQL offers scalability, flexibility, speed
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 in San Jose, California. Start-up releases all-in-one VMware server, storage appliance
Start-up Nutanix released its flagship product, a VMware-based server combined with SSD and hard drive storage, today to deliver a clustered system that grows over time. VMware preparing data loss prevention features for vShield
At the upcoming VMworld conference, VMware plans to highlight new data-loss prevention capabilities in an updated version of its virtual system security product, vShield. SSD drives promise to enhance storage performance, but a new host-interface-standard holds the key
Flash-memory-based solid-state disks (SSDs) provide faster random access and data transfer rates than electromechanical drives and today can often serve as rotating-disk replacements, but the host interface to SSDs remains a performance bottleneck. PCI Express (PCIe)-based SSDs together with an emerging standard called NVMe (Non-Volatile Memory express) promises to solve the interface bottleneck. EMC unveils disk library with deduplication for mainframes
EMC has combined its midrange Clariion disk storage system with its Data Domain deduplication appliance under a single virtual library front end for IBM mainframe environments. Wall Street Beat: Tech earnings show sector strength
A raft of computer and software vendor financial results this week, including reports from IBM, Intel, Apple and Microsoft, revealed some record quarterly results and a healthy market for business technology, though clouds remain for segments of the consumer arena. EMC revenue grows on strength of big data, VMware
Increasing customer demand for big data technologies and cloud computing brought record financial results at EMC in the second quarter, the company reported Wednesday. VMware, EMC release new virtual storage, smaller VMAX array
In conjunction with VMware's release of its vSphere 5 cloud OS, EMC has released virtual storage appliance software and a new, lower-end version of its high-end virtual storage array, VMAX. Cisco CTO: We needed better accountability
Padmasree Warrior, Cisco's CTO and senior vice president of engineering, discussed the network gear company's reorganization of Cisco's engineering groups, Catalyst vs. Nexus, the so-called Cisco "tax" (its prices vs. the competition), network virtualization, Cisco's toe dipping into the brave new world of open source and the future careers of the Cisco CCIE faithful. Update: Apple, Microsoft consortium beats Google for Nortel patents
Nortel Networks has auctioned off its remaining patents and patent applications to a consortium of key technology companies for a cash purchase price of US$4.5 billion. Apple, Microsoft consortium beats Google for Nortel patents
Nortel Networks has auctioned off its remaining patents and patent applications to a consortium of key technology companies for a cash purchase price of US$4.5 billion. Oracle buys Pillar Data Systems
Oracle is building out its array of hardware products with the acquisition of storage vendor Pillar Data Systems, the company announced Wednesday. Update: Oracle buys Ellison-owned Pillar Data Systems
Oracle is building out its array of hardware products with the acquisition of storage vendor Pillar Data Systems. World's data will grow by 50X in next decade, IDC study predicts
The world's information is doubling every two years with a colossal 1.8 zettabytes expected to be created and replicated in 2011 alone, according to IDC's fifth annual Digital Universe study. EMC to add 500 jobs in Utah
EMC plans to hire 500 new workers by the end of 2015 to staff a new customer support facility in Utah. IBM's Netezza rolls out large-scale analytic appliance
IBM's Netezza division is rolling out a new analytic appliance that can analyze up to 10 petabytes of data "in a matter of minutes," the company is expected to announce Wednesday during the Enzee Universe conference in Boston. NYSE Launches Cloud Service for Wall Street
NYSE Euronext announced that it's planning to offer a cloud service that will provide on-demand computing resources to Wall Street broker-dealers. PMC-Sierra doubles performance of SAS controller
PMC-Sierra announced a new serial-attached SCSI (SAS) controller that doubles the throughput between storage devices and their disk arrays, compared with its previous products, offering up to 750,000 I/Os per second Dell offers gateway storage appliance
Dell announced a new appliance that allows its block-based storage area network to store file-based data under one unified management interface. Why Your IT Department Needs Data Scientists
What do you get when you combine the roles of software developer, statistician and data analyst? A data scientist, who can derive tangible insights from huge quantities of data. Riverbed releases cloud storage gateway appliances
Riverbed today announced three new cloud storage appliances targeted at backing data up to the cloud. VMware CEO: What we plan for the post-PC era
Paul Maritz, CEO of VMware, sees virtualization as one piece of the platform VMware intends to offer a mobile, cloud-enabled world After hack, RSA offers to replace SecureID tokens
In an acknowledgement of the severity of its recent computer compromise, RSA Security it will replace SecurID tokens for any customer that asks. HP announces converged storage strategy, products
Hewlett-Packard announced a series of upgrades to its storage products, including the addition of data snapshots, and a portfolio of pre-configured storage systems. External disk storage shipments increase 46% in Q1
Worldwide external disk storage systems posted double-digit growth for the fifth consecutive quarter in the first three months of 2011, according to IDC. NYSE announces financial services cloud
NYSE Technologies announced the Capital Markets Community Platform, which it described as the financial services industry's first cloud computing platform. RSA: Maximizing customer harm
When news of the major RSA breach broke about two months ago I complained that the company was not being all that upfront in telling customers what the breach might mean to them. Now we hear that the break-in at giant defense contractor Lockheed Martin may be an example of the fallout of the RSA breach. EMC joins forces with Hadoop distributor MapR Technologies
EMC today formally announced a reseller partnership with MapR, which makes a proprietary MapReduce file system based on Apache Hadoop. Enterprise SSD testing spec released
SNIA has developed a specification that allows users to test solid-state drives from any vendor for their performance. Testing SSDs with SNIA's specification
Jim Handy, of Objective Analysis, and Tom Coughlin, founder of Coughlin Associates teamed with Calypso to compile a study on SSD performance that involved 18 different drives. No two drives had the same performance.
Northrop to pay $4.8M for Virginia government network outage
Northrop Grumman said it will pay almost $5 million to cover the costs of network outages that slammed 26 Virginia agencies in August 2010. As 'big data' grows, IT job roles, technology must change
As companies look to keep every bit of data generated in-house and by customers for analytics as well as legal and regulatory compliance, the roles of those who manage it are changing, as are the tools they use. EMC unveils real-time data replication over thousands of miles
EMC made several announcements around data replication and protection, including the ability to replicate data in real time between storage arrays thousands of miles apart. EMC's Tucci sees hybrid cloud becoming de facto standard
EMC has planted its development and acquisition future in the cloud, calling for increased development of open-source Web-based applications and MapReduce technologies to help mine unstructured data. EMC to sell PCIe SSD cards for server acceleration
MC says it will begin shipping a PCIe-based flash card to accelerate I/O between its storage arrays and applications servers as a way to increase throughput particularly for B.I. and cloud infrastructures. EMC unveils Hadoop appliance, BI software
Among a flurry of announcements today at its annual user conference, EMC announced it will be distributing it's a free version of Apachee Hadoop and a licensed version for enterprises as well as a pre-configured appliance for big data analytics tasks. Index Engines extends e-discovery appliance to Data Domain
Index Engines announced on Friday that its e-discovery appliance has been integrated with EMC's Data Domain backup and deduplication product to allow searches for legal discovery and regulatory compliance purposes. Oracle hands Hudson to Eclipse, but Jenkins fork seems permanent
Oracle's Hudson moves alienated the open source community, and those behind the fork say Oracle's latest move was also done without them EMC's Iomega launches NAS storage line for smaller businesses
Iomega launched a new series of desktop and rack mountable NAS devices aimed at small- to medium-sized businesses and remote offices, with a price tag for the arrays of less than $4,000. What happens to data when your cloud provider evaporates?
With cloud storage providers closing -- and Amazon's cloud service problems continuing -- users are left to wonder what happens to their data when they can't access it in the cloud. Quora: The next social network IT pros need to know?
Quora is an increasingly popular social network for asking and answering questions on topics ranging from how Britney Spears was discovered to how to flee Tokyo following an earthquake. But the venture funded start-up, which was formed by a couple of ex-Facebook execs, also is filled with plenty of crowdsourced expertise about work-related topics for IT pros, such as whether Cisco will buy EMC, how the iPad might be used at work and how to improve Ubuntu. DOJ limits Microsoft's purchase of Novell patents
Microsoft will not be able to keep patents it proposed to buy from Novell under an agreement with the U.S. Department of Justice said Wednesday. EMC integrates Avamar backup software and Data Domain
EMC today announced a major upgrade to its Avamar deduplication backup software, which includes an integration with its Data Domain deduplication appliance, allowing admins to manage both products from a single UI. EMC Isilon releases new NAS products for big data
Isilon is shipping two new NAS arrays targeted as big data architectures with high I/O rates and the ability to scale to petabytes in capacity under a single file name. Virtualization shoot-out: VMware vSphere
The world's leading server virtualization platform is still tops in performance, scalability, and advanced features Virtualization shoot-out: Citrix, Microsoft, Red Hat, and VMware
The leading server virtualization contenders tackle InfoWorld's ultimate virtualization challenge. EMC's 'big data' efforts gain momentum
New appliances, partnership with SAS give a boost to EMC's data warehousing push, analysts say. Users get heated over IT politics at SNW
During a panel discussion on converging LAN and SAN networks, audience members became agitated over the prospect of network administrators somehow being able to perform their job, or vice versa. VMware takes over Mozy backup service
VMware has added another cloud service to its lineup, hiring Mozy's workers and acquiring its assets. EMC/RSA acquires electronic threat detection firm NetWitness
EMC Corp. today announced it has acquired NetWitness Corp., security company that makes the NextGen visibility monitoring system to detect electronic threats and malware-based attacks. EMC said NetWitness will operate as part of RSA. Japanese DRAM makers' woes echo rest of industry after quake
Japanese DRAM maker Elpida Memory on Monday said its factories are operating "at close to normal levels" two weeks after the 9.0-magnitude earthquake in Japan, and that it has "sufficient parts and materials to continue supplying out customers as usual until the end of July." Big data to drive a surveillance society
Vendors and users of big data analytics gathered in New York this week to discuss the latest developments in a technology that they say will offer Web users and their customers a far more personalized experience while alleviating the need to throw away useful data. Japan disaster rocks computer chip supplies
The disaster in Japan is putting a pinch on 25% of the worldwide production of silicon wafers used to make computer chips, according to IHS iSuppli. Is EMC ripe for the picking?
With enterprise companies such as Dell, Cisco and Oracle all looking to move up the data center product stack to become systems companies, EMC may be the perfect acquisition to fill a big gap in each. RSA warns SecurID customers after company is hacked
EMC's RSA Security division says the security of the company's two-factor SecurID tokens could be at risk following a sophisticated cyber-attack on the company. Dell reveals its storage roadmap, acquisition integration plans
Dell met with Computerworld to explain how it plans to integrate its recent acquisitions of Exanet and Ocarina with its Compellent and EqualLogic products. Top tech firms join push to hire vets
JP Morgan Chase is leading an effort of top U.S. companies to hire military personnel after they leave active duty. Storage software business up 10% in Q4, says IDC
The storage software market recorded its fifth successive quarter of growth at the end of 2010. EMC chief Tucci nets 37% pay raise to $12.4 million
EMC Chairman Joe Tucci saw his own compensation climb 37% during what he called the best year in the company's history.
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