Lucas Mearian

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Cisco to drop HP as certified reseller

As of May 1, Hewlett-Packard will no longer be a certified reseller of Cisco Systems Inc.

Storage spending focused on data consolidation, ROI

Survey suggests companies are spending significant dollars on thin provisioning and data de-duplication technology. "It's a little bit of back to the future," says an analyst

EMC doubles density of Clariion, Celerra storage

Manufacturer says the new mid-range storage systems, which can house twice the number of hard disk drives in half the frame space, will also support lower-power 2TB SATA drives

i365 opens Evault cloud storage to ISVs

Seagate's backup service subsidiary i365 is making its cloud storage service available to independent software vendors. The EVault Cloud-Connected Services Platform uses encryption, deduplication and compression to increase performance

MySpace dumps server hard disks for flash drives

MySpace's new SSD servers use about 1 per cent the power of its hard disk drive predecessors

Cheap Cloud storage co-op launched

Ex-Microsoft and Amazon engineers are using spare disk drive capacity from SMB back offices to create a pooled storage service. Here

EMC founder ends long battle with cancer

EMC co-founder and former U.S. Ambassador to Ireland Richard J. "Dick" Egan sold furniture with college roommate Roger Marino to finance what would later evolve into a storage giant and the largest technology company in Massachusetts...

Emulex has rejected Broadcom’s $925M revised buyout offer

Broadcom will no longer try to buy Emulex but is looking for other acquisitions in the converged enterprise networking market. This is the second time, Emulex has turned down a Broadcom acquisition.rn

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