EMC bids $1.8 billion for Data Domain
EMC on Monday moved to head off NetApp's proposed acquisition of data de-duplication vendor Data Domain, offering about US$1.8 billion compared with NetApp's May 20 bid of $1.5 billion.
EMC on Monday moved to head off NetApp's proposed acquisition of data de-duplication vendor Data Domain, offering about US$1.8 billion compared with NetApp's May 20 bid of $1.5 billion.
Former EMC executive David Donatelli has been cleared by a Massachusetts court to work for Hewlett-Packard, but must keep away from storage technology development because a non-compete clause requires him to steer clear of that area for a year.
A state court in Massachusetts has issued a temporary order barring a former EMC top storage executive from joining Hewlett-Packard as its executive vice president for enterprise servers, storage and networking, citing a non-competitive agreement.
The David Donatelli case is similar to that of Mark Papermaster, a former IBM executive who was blocked last year by a US court from working at Apple, after IBM filed a similar lawsuit to the one EMC filed against Donatelli.
EMC's top five executives, including CEO Joe Tucci, are taking 10% pay cuts, the storage vendor reported to the US Securities and Exchange Commission recently.
The US Department of Justice last week disclosed that it has intervened in a 2006 lawsuit charging that EMC gave kickbacks to federal IT consultants and overcharged government agencies for hardware, software and services.
EMC has announced an upgrade to its entire line of Celerra network attached storage (NAS) systems, saying it will now offer solid-state disks and file-level data deduplication on the arrays and its gateway device.
Five years after purchasing VMware, EMC is becoming more aggressive in selling its own products and services alongside those of its virtualization subsidiary.
Despite expecting to meet revenue estimates for its fourth quarter, EMC said on Wednesday that it is instituting a restructuring program that includes laying off 2,400 people.
In a bid to make backup and recovery easier for IT administrators to handle, EMC is updating several pieces of its storage management software portfolio.
According to EMC, today's knowledge-based economy necessitates that an organisation's IT strategy integrate social computing, team collaboration and enterprise content management (ECM) if it wants to improve its competitive position.
EMC will support a line of Emulex network adapters that use Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCOE), giving a big-name boost to an emerging technology that could become the common transport across an entire datacentre.
EMC is expanding its Mozy online backup service with a new option targeted mainly at small businesses. MozyPro for Mac will let companies that use Macs back up their information automatically and securely at a remote location.
EMC plans to hand down advanced features, including de-duplication and even virtualisation, to consumer products coming out of its recently purchased Iomega division.
EMC, IBM and Microsoft have teamed up to develop a specification that will let content management systems from different vendors interact, providing greater flexibility for enterprise customers.