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EMC, having spent billions on acquisitions over the last few years, ain’t done yet. At the top of the shopping list is more security, more management and more data analytics know-how, EMC’s Pat Gelsinger told reporters today at an event at Gillette Stadium. Read More »

Fresh off its $50 million in funding, note-taking and memory service Evernote is preparing for its first-ever developer conference next month, where it will outline its broader strategy and how it plans on becoming a 100-year company by building a productivity platform. Read More »

 
 

As organizations strive to analyze more data than ever and to do it faster than ever, the results they’re getting might actually be worse than those in the pre-big-data and real-time world — at least temporarily. Read More »

Like Our Data, Storage Startups Are Multiplying

So far this week two storage startups offering a hardware product have launched in as many days, both offering variations on the theme that more data requires more storage and faster networks require faster access to stored data. The trend has been building for years. Read More »

Amazon Tries to Take the Commodity Out of Cloud Computing

Amazon will offer a lower-priced, less reliable storage tier of its popular Simple Storage Service for folks who don’t need the full redundancy of the traditional S3 service, the retailer said today. The service is another way Amazon is changing its pricing as cloud computing matures. Read More »

Nasuni Targets Primary Storage in the Cloud

Cloud storage startup Nasuni entered public beta today, bringing with it a new, but familiar, approach to storing primary data: It sells software that looks and acts like a traditional file system but stores data in cloud offerings from Amazon, Rackspace, Nirvanix and Iron Mountain. Read More »

Google: We Don't Need No (or Much) Stinkin' Storage

Google’s new Nexus One allots only 190MB of memory for storing local apps. That’s a tiny fraction of the available app storage on Apple’s iPhone, but the strategy of sacrificing local storage aligns with Google’s plans for its upcoming Chrome OS. Read More »

Like Facebook, Data Robotics Dreams of an IPO

Data Robotics, maker of the Drobo line of data storage devices has quietly turned into a niche — but fast-growing — player in the storage industry, to the point that founder and CEO Dr. Geoff Barrall has started dreaming of an initial public offering. Read More »

Seagate Drive Dock Turns Local Storage Into Cloud Storage

Om and I are both big fans of the PogoPlug from Cloud Engines. Using it earlier this year, we turned ordinary external drives into remotely accessible Network Area Storage devices. But even good products can evolve into better ones. Today, Cloud Engines announced a … Read More »

Why the Future of Storage Looks Bright

A new GigaOM Pro report from Analytico’s Tom Trainer, “The Future of Data Center Storage” (subscription required), could not have come at a better time. The report examines key storage trends, as well as what overall IT initiatives are driving them and what industry leaders … Read More »

Should Servers and Networking Come From a Single Source?

Data center hardware infrastructure can be roughly categorized into servers, networking and storage. But two of those areas are merging before our eyes, as Cisco and HP battle for server and network integration. The business and technical implications of this consolidation affect other companies and … Read More »

Cloudera CEO: Hadoop Will Go Beyond Web Apps

Hadoop is going to find potential markets in any industry where there are large data sets that need complex analysis,” Mike Olson, chief executive officer and one of the four co-founders of Cloudera, the startup that’s commercializing the open-source software framework Hadoop, told me … Read More »

More Must Reads

As 2009 kicked off, pundits were adamant that the dismal state of the economy would drive suddenly cost-conscious enterprise IT departments to the cloud. Anecdotal evidence from vendors pointed to more customer engagements, and general interest in cloud computing (which continues to increase) had never … Read More »

Bravo to NetApp for acquiring Data Domain. For too long, NetApp has been downright timid in the M&A department, all the while being run around in circles by rival EMC. But with this deal, the battle for storage leadership is heating up once again. Not only … Read More »

Earlier this week, Minneapolis-based software company NetEx released a cloud-specific version of its HyperIP solution. HyperIP represents technology originally designed for high-speed satellite communications other high-latency, high-packet-loss networks redesigned to work with IP. Now, the product can run with pretty much any application — including … Read More »

Hadoop, Cassandra, HBase, Hypertable, Open Neptune… these are some open source projects that are being pursued by web technologists in order to deal with explosion of digital data in a post-terabyte world. The traditional way to deal with unstructured data isn’t working. What we need is … Read More »

In the debate around Internet regulation and traffic, it’s important to understand the things that drive how much bandwidth we need. Without fixing the bandwidth shortage on the wire or in the protocols, we make it easy for carriers to claim that they need … Read More »

Avaya says it has bought Fremont-based mobile software company Traverse Networks. No word on the price. Read More »

Are you feeling left out from the broadband gusher that most users in Asia are enjoying? Are you wondering when ADSL 2 will find its way to the American shores? How about I tell you that you can expect more bandwidth from boring old bells by … Read More »

Lost in the noise and fury around Qwest’s battle for MCI, was the news that Qwest is handing out nearly $7 million in executive bonuses, including $3 million CEO Dick Notebaert. In addition to Notebaert’s $2.97 million, Chief Financial Officer Oren Shaffer got $1.68 … Read More »

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