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  • Decru on Symantec's wish list?

    When security giant Symantec bought storage specialist Veritas two years ago, the US$13.5 billion deal was a massive beacon pointing to technological convergence.

  • Rivals rubbish the new Symantec's prospects

    Symantec's rivals are attempting to rain on the security firm's parade by predicting problems with the recently announced Veritas merger.

  • Products may keep Veritas name after buyout

    A senior Veritas Software executive has given strong indication that its products and accompanying brands should remain intact despite an impending change in ownership.

  • Symantec to buy Veritas for US$13.5 billion

    In a long-rumoured move, security software maker Symantec said Thursday that it will buy storage specialist Veritas Software in a deal worth roughly US$13.5 billion.

  • Storage and security -- do you buy it?

    Storage and security vendors used to come from different worlds -- but in the space of 18 months, Symantec merged with Veritas and EMC acquired RSA Security. So how do you feel about trusting the same vendor to store and secure your corporate data?

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  • Veritas: A blurred vision?

    Is storage software maker Veritas Software growing too fast for its own good? Is the company going through an identity crisis in the name of diversification?

  • Array of hope? EMC hopes so

    EMC will unveil new storage software that could decrease telecommunication costs for distance data replication by 50 percent but will Australian companies bite?

  • E-mail management: Don't leave it to employees

    And you thought being stingy with the size of those inboxes was a good idea?

  • 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.

  • 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.

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