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EMC Upgrades Replication in Data Protection Suite

December 14th, 2009 | No Comments

Using the new version of the company’s storage management suite, IT managers now can automate and remotely monitor all of their backup applications along with replication technologies in both physical and virtual environments.
– EMC has added upgraded replication support in the 5.5 version of its
Data Protection Advisor software, which became generally available Dec.
14.

Using the new version of the storage management suite, IT managers now
can automate and remotely monitor all of their backup applications
along w…

Desktops, Laptops Now Get EMC Avamar Deduplication Backup

November 17th, 2009 | No Comments

EMC Avamar is now providing, via the latest version of its Avamar deduplication and NetWorker backup software, enterprise-quality data backup for desktop and laptop computers. The client runs scheduled backups that include deduplication, so that only new documents and changes to existing files and data are sent to storage.
– EMC, a longtime incumbent of the data center, is making inroads into the offices of users.

The storage giant Nov. 17 said it is now providing — via the latest
version of its Avamar deduplication and NetWorker backup software –
enterprise-quality data backup for desktop and laptop computers.
…

Cisco, EMC, VMware Join Forces for New vBlock Cloud Systems

November 3rd, 2009 | No Comments

The coalition — along with processor maker Intel — also announced that it is starting up a new, shared-equity company called Acadia to handle the specifics of marketing the new vBlock systems. vBlocks are preintegrated, preconfigured computing systems consisting of networkware from Cisco, storage/security/system management from EMC, and virtualization software from VMware.
– Three IT giants networking leader Cisco Systems, virtualization expert VMware and storage provider EMC revealed Nov. 3 that they have formed a new joint venture, the Virtual Computing Environment, to produce cloud computing systems called vBlocks that integrate hardware and software from all three c…

EMC Profits Down 24% but Revenue Beats Street Predictions

October 22nd, 2009 | No Comments

Storage company EMC reports overall third-quarter revenue is down 5 percent from a year ago. Nonetheless, EMC, which predicted overall 2009 earnings of 87 cents per common stock share, posted a performance that surpassed most Wall Street expectations in the slow-moving world economy.
– External storage market leader EMC
reported Oct. 22 that it banked $298 million in profit in the third quarter on
total revenue of $3.52 billion, but also that its profit was $95 million or 24
percent less than a year ago.

Overall revenue was down 5 percent from a year ago. Nonetheless, EMC,
…

Analysts Believe Intel’s Gelsinger a Good Catch for EMC

September 14th, 2009 | No Comments

Intel veteran executive Patrick Gelsinger — who joined the company at age 18 in 1979 and leaves three decades later — moves to EMC to become president and chief operating officer of its Information Infrastructure Products division, which amounts to the company’s first-string product line.
– Storage provider EMC and chipmaker Intel, the two leading IT companies in their respective sectors that have worked closely as partners for years, announced some key management changes Sept. 14 that analysts say will have a profound effect upon not only the companies, but also the numerous markets i…

Gelsinger Moving from Intel to EMC: Reports

September 14th, 2009 | No Comments

Pat Gelsinger, who has been in charge of Intels core chip businesses, will leave Intel for storage giant EMC, according to reports in the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal. The move will result in an executive shuffle at Intel a week before the chip makers annual Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco.
– Intel reportedly will announce Sept. 14 that Pat Gelsinger, senior vice
president and general manager of its Digital Enterprise Group, is leaving the
company.
The New York Times is reporting that Gelsingers
departure will put in motion a number of other executive moves, all coming
a week before…

EMC, IBM Market Leaders in External Disk Storage Market, Report Says

September 4th, 2009 | No Comments

IDC’s second quarter report on the enterprise storage systems market shows EMC maintaining a lead over rivals IBM, Dell and HP in the total network storage market.
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According to research firm
IDC, pockets of growth appeared in second quarter results for the enterprise
storage systems market, although worldwide external disk storage systems
factory revenues posted a decline of 18.3 percent year-over-year in the second
quarter of 2009 (2Q09), …

EMC, IBM Market Leaders in External Disk Storage Market, Report Says

September 4th, 2009 | No Comments

IDC’s second quarter report on the enterprise storage systems market shows EMC maintaining a lead over rivals IBM, Dell and HP in the total network storage market.
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EMC Acquires eDiscovery Specialist Kazeon Systems

September 2nd, 2009 | No Comments

EMC will pay about $75 million for Kazeon, which makes a physical appliance that features a full menu of ediscovery, litigation and analytics software for corporations, legal service providers, law firms and consultants.
– Storage giant EMC on Sept. 1 made a move to bring fresh e-discovery functionality into its own content management realm by announcing that it will acquire cash flow-challenged Kazeon Systems for about $75 million in cash.

EMC did not reveal the purchase price. eWEEK obtained the information from …

EMC Co-Founder Richard Egan Dies

August 30th, 2009 | No Comments

Richard Egan, co-founder of data storage and data management technology company EMC, died Friday. The Boston Herald newspaper reported on its Website that Egan was battling terminal cancer and died of a shotgun wound to the head.
– NEW YORK (Reuters) – The billionaire co-founder of top data storage
equipment firm EMC Corp., Richard Egan, died on Friday, a spokesman for
the company said in an emailed statement.
Egan, the quot;E, quot; behind the EMC name, co-founded the Hopkinton,
Mass.-based company 30 years ago with Roge…

EMC Profits Fall 43%

July 23rd, 2009 | No Comments

Storage giant EMC’s earnings dropped to $205.2 million from $360.1 million in second-quarter 2008, EMC reports. Overall income was down 11 percent to $3.26 billion. However, CEO Joe Tucci is optimistic, saying he believes a return to higher numbers may not be far away.
– Storage giant EMC, which had enjoyed
double-digit profits for 21 quarters up until this year, reported July 23 that
it lost ground in the second quarter of 2009 as its profit fell 43 percent from
a year ago.

The company’s virtualization subsidiary, VMware,
reported a 36 percent drop in profi…

Quantum Seeing ‘New Opportunities’ After EMC’s Data Domain Buy

July 20th, 2009 | No Comments

Quantum CEO Rick Belluzzo sees a competitor wiped off the marketshare chart and possible new opportunities in the channel for his company, which may eventually get less attention from the storage giant for its deduplication software.
– The news July 20 that EMC had taken over 82 percent of Data Domain’s outstanding stock shares only eight days after outbidding NetApp has some people’s heads spinning.

We’re not talking about a small transaction here. EMC is ponying up $33.50 a pop per share in cash; the deal ultimately will be …

EMC Wastes No Time Taking Over Data Domain

July 20th, 2009 | No Comments

It’s nice to have a lot of cash in the bank. EMC said July 20 that it has already acquired about 82 percent of Data Domain’s common stock at $33.50 per share since July 8, when competitor NetApp decided to drop out of the bidding for the deduplication storage maker.
– EMC hasn’t wasted any time in taking control of its latest acquisition, storage deduplication provider Data Domain.

The world’s largest provider of storage-related software and hardware
said July 20 that it already has acquired about 82 percent of the
company’s common stock at $33.50 per share…