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    Storage technology specialist EMC has completed its acquisition of server software maker VMware, announcing Friday the final purchase price of US$625 million in cash.

  • IronPort agrees to AU$1bn Cisco offer

    Cisco has acquired Internet gateway security company IronPort for AU$1.06 billion (US$830 million) but Australian customers are not likely to be affected -- at least in the short term.

  • IBM to pay US$1.6 billion for FileNet

    IBM has agreed to acquire content-management software maker FileNet for about US$1.6 billion in cash, the companies said on Thursday in the US.

  • EMC Services looks up to Big Blue

    Storage giant EMC says its new global services division wants to emulate rivals like IBM and Accenture as the vendor tries to make up for shortfalls in its services offerings.

  • Insider warns of storage security flaws

    A former government security advisor now in the employ of Hitachi Data systems claims major storage players, including his own company, have fundamental problems with securing their systems.

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    What happens when two storage specialists get an opportunity to joust? Mark Latchford of IBM and Steve Redman from EMC go head-to-head.

  • Metadata: The future of storage?

    There's a significant shift in storage fundamentals afoot, and it's not SAN and NAS--metadata promises to turn static, monolithic data repositories into malleable storage clouds.

  • Time to set storage strategy

    Low storage costs, combined with new players and technology entering the storage market, mean it's a good time to re-evaluate your storage strategy. You may even want to delay storage purchases until the market shakes out.

  • Will Microsoft buy Red Hat?

    OK. So anti-trust lawyers would have a field day but consider this -- the software giant is on an official spending spree and this is the best time to spread its wings ... to become the Coca-Cola of the IT industry.

  • EMC and Documentum: Redefining content, storage

    EMC's planned acquisition of Documentum represents an infrastructure-level strategy that could be the beginning of a much larger trend, with potential impact on how enterprises seek to address content, archiving, and storage as a completely synergistic, single-vendor solution.

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