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  • Tucci eyes MS attack on VMware 'gem'

    Virtualisation technology may mean customers buy less hardware, according to chief executive of storage giant EMC, Joe Tucci, but he believes he must continue to grow his VMware "gem" before competitors, such as Microsoft, take over the market.

  • EMC vs Dell: Bed of roses today, but war looms

    EMC and Dell's relationship is rosy today but Dell's US$1.4 billion gamble on EqualLogic's iSCSI-protocol networked storage technology might change all that before too long.

  • EMC completes VMWare acquisition

    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.

  • VMWare aims higher with new bundle

    VMWare is expected to introduce a new product bundle this week that it hopes will extend its lead in the virtualisation software market.

  • EMC acquires server specialist VMware

    Storage specialist EMC announced plans Monday in the U.S. to acquire VMware, a start-up that sells software to make servers more flexible, for about US$635 million in cash.

Features and Case Studies (10)

  • Straight to the source: Green and Redman

    We put Steve Redman, MD of EMC Australia, up against Simon Green, MD of Network Appliance Australia and watch the sparks fly.

  • Top storage competitors put the lid on their offerings

    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.

  • 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.

  • 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?

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