Data Domain to EMC: No! No! No! No!

Well that’s how El Reg is reporting. Data Domain has rejected EMC’s and offers four reasons to say no.
The first one is that, if Data Domain talks to EMC or did not reaffirm its NetApp agreement, then NetApp could walk away leaving Data Domain bereft and at risk of EMC not completing its takeover offer. [...]

Data Domain accepts NetApps raised bid [again]; EMC won’t raise bid

NetApp sources think this means EMC will not raise its bid and the implication is that this is going down to a decision by Data Domain shareholders between the two bidders, EMC or NetApp. The Data Domain board prefers that NetApp buy the company. It and NetApp have entered into a revised acquisition agreement based [...]

EMC gate crashes NetApp’s party; Bids $1.8 Bn for Data Domain

That funny picture on El Reg suggests that the guy standing against the glass is EMC, a possible outsider? Anyways EMC surely didn’t want to be left out.

“Strategically, this combination will further enhance our ability to broaden EMC’s best-in-class storage portfolio for the benefit of EMC and Data Domain customers and this, in turn, will [...]

VMware continues to lose key executives

Alessandro reporting more execs who jumped ship. Last time I spoke to Reza (at VMworld) he seemed pretty lukewarm ab out his stay at VMware. As you can also see in the comments Kate Hutchison too left. We did observe in our previous post how the new COO would be removing Kate (that was the [...]

EMC’s dilemma: Why the private cloud may only offer short-term respite

This is a pretty nice write-up. A lot is happening in the industry, when we were thinking that HP/EDS deal could be killing for the industry, we had Oracle come in stealthily and stole Sun away under IBM’s nose. Now we have couple of firms, well actually Cisco only here, that might be offering the [...]

EMC loses key 22-year veteran Donatelli to HP, now files lawsuit against him!

In 2001, EMC won a non-compete law suit in Massachusetts against Doron Kempel who was leaving EMC to become CEO of SANgate Systems. He had to wait almost a year before taking up his appointment. Kempel later became chairman and CEO of a deduplication vendor, Diligent, which was acquired by IBM, where he now works.
Donatelli [...]

EMC’s Cloud Storage to accomodate tons of VMs with V-Max

EMC Corp. today unveiled a high-end Symmetrix storage array that is based on Intel Corp.’s x86 quad-core processors and integrates VMware’s APIs to automate the provisioning of storage for virtual machines across multiple tiers of disk drives, from solid-state to SATA.
The new V-Max array, with its Symmetrix Virtual Matrix Architecture, scales to 2 petabytes of [...]

EMC to sell Celerra’s packed with SSDs and Dedupe!

I guess I’ll give the KIT boys a call.
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.
The upgraded arrays include the NS-120, NS-480, NS-960 and NS-G8 NAS Gateway appliance, which [...]

Cloud Storage: Symantec not so cozy call on EMC’s Mozy

This is going to hit EMC hard. Symantec has been inching closer –and that is why it is my favorite Microsoft wannahave company eventually, something which I proposed to some Symantec and Microsoft executives in my last meeting with the at VMworld Cannes 2008. Microsoft needs a solid all-rounder and good turnarounder, Symantec is slowly [...]

EMC OutOfTheBox 2009 Forum, The Netherlands: Meet me there!

I’m going to be there representing my employer, Atos Origin, who is a platinum sponsor for that event. Check out the program!
See you tomorrow! I may not be present all day but will definitely stay there as long as the conversations are exciting enough
I will be open to discuss issues around:
- Governance, [...]