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NetApp Trumps EMC with $1.9B Offer for Data Domain

The proverbial ball in the bidding battle between market leader EMC and NetApp over Data Domain has been swatted back in EMC's court. NetApp...

NetApp Quiet About EMC Bid for Data Domain

Well, a full day has gone by since EMC offered 300 million more bucks than NetApp did on May 20 to acquire Data Domain,...

Why EMC’s Offer for DDUP Will Be Difficult for NetApp to Beat

Surprise! EMC now wants in on the Data Domain sweepstakes. The biggest gorilla with the most bananas in the storage cage comes to the...

EMC Blocks Former Exec from Selling Storage at HP

As reported here in The Station on April 29, Hewlett-Packard recruited longtime EMC storage executive David Donatelli to become its new senior vice president...

Fusion-io, Samsung Hook Up for Networked SSD Servers

Newcomer Fusion-io has come out of the gate only recently and is already making international partner-type news. The solid-state storage server maker announced May...

AT&T Joins Crowd to Offer Enterprise-type Cloud Storage

It took longer than many industry observers thought, but telco giant AT&T announced May 18 that it intends to offer cloud-based storage services for...

NetApp, Data Domain Doing Well in the ‘Dedupe’ Market

Data deduplication, which began getting serious attention from the enterprise IT industry in late 2006 when EMC bought Avamar Technologies, has become a rapidly...

Vyatta Patterns Discount on Cisco’s 64% Gross Margin

We have to admit this is pretty creative marketing from a small company that has an uphill fight in the same space as huge...

RES Launches New Cross-Platform Workspace for Windows

There's a lot of other new-product news being announced at Citrix Synergy 2009 (Las Vegas through May 7) besides that of the host company.Longtime...

Symantec Now Offering Managed Backup Services

If you don't want to have to deal with daily enterprise backup anymore, there's a new alternative now available: Symantec's getting into the managed...