Symantec plans to ditch Backup Exec.cloud
Profile: Sonia Lelii
Symantec Corp. has put its channel partners and managed service providers (MSPs) on notice that it is shutting its backup cloud service, known as Symantec Backup Exec.cloud, effective on Jan. 6, 2014. The company has not made an official announcement public but it sent an email to its reseller...
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Say farewell to SNW
Profile: Sonia Lelii
Last month’s Storage Networking World (SNW) conference in Long Beach, Calif., was the swan song for the semi-annual industry event in the United States. Computerworld/IDG and SNIA, which launched SNW in the United States in 1999, have decided to end the U.S. version of the storage conference....
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EMC consolidates VMAX, VNX resources, but not products
Profile: Dave Raffo
EMC has merged its VMAX, VNX and 0 Comments
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Violin struggles in first public quarter
Profile: Dave Raffo
Violin Memory’s first quarter as a public company was rocky, and the second quarter doesn’t look much better for the flash array vendor. Violin reported earnings Thursday for the first time as a public company. It’s $28.3 million in revenue increased 37% from last year, but missed...
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EMC bosses see Amazon as the real threat
Profile: Dave Raffo
Despite all the established and emerging storage startups on the scene, EMC’s top executives say cloud giant Amazon is the competitor that worries them the most. At the UBS Global Technology Conference this week, EMC executive vice president Jeremy Burton was asked about EMC CEO Joe Tucci’s...
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EMC, NetApp allege startups stole company secrets
Profile: Todd Erickson
Two of the storage startups with large bankrolls will have to spend a big piece of their cash lawsuits rather than business.
EMC Inc. fired a legal salvo at all-flash startup 0 Comments
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NetApp upgrades flash, high performance E-Series arrays
Profile: Dave Raffo
NetApp unveiled a controller and memory upgrade to its EF all-flash array system today, less than a week after EMC finally made its XtremIO flash platform generally...
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SimpliVity raises $58 million, prepares for hyper-growth
Profile: Dave Raffo
Hyper-converged storage startup SimpliVity’s executives were in hyper-funding mode the last few months. SimpliVity closed a whopping $58 funding round today,...
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Federal government shutdown takes bite out of NetApp business, too
Profile: Dave Raffo
As expected, NetApp took a big financial hit from the U.S. federal government shutdown in October. That hit caused the vendor to miss its revenue target for the quarter and the continued uncertainty prompted a lower forecast than expected for this quarter. NetApp’s $1.55 billion in revenue...
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HDS expands flash ahead of EMC’s XtremIO launch
Profile: Dave Raffo
A few days ahead of EMC’s ballyhooed official XtremIO launch, Hitachi Data Systems...
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