EMC news from Network World

EMC revamps content management platform

Jon Brodkin — 2008-07-22T08:00:00Z

EMC is giving Documentum a Web 2.0 makeover with four new tools and a software server designed to speed up high-volume applications.

EMC merges home backup with cloud-based storage

Jon Brodkin — 2008-07-16T00:00:00Z

The fruits of three EMC acquisitions are coming together with integration of home storage and online backups via the Internet “cloud.”

VMware's CEO switch targeted at Microsoft, analysts say

Jon Brodkin — 2008-07-09T00:00:00Z

VMware is banking on its new CEO to win competition vs. Microsoft.

VMware ousts founder, hires ex-Microsoft bigwig

Jon Brodkin — 2008-07-08T00:00:00Z

VMware ousted co-founder and CEO Diane Greene Tuesday, replacing her with former Microsoft executive Paul Maritz.

Your apps need a scratch pad

2008-07-02T00:00:00Z

Developers working with three tiered software architectures -- divided into presentation, business logic and data tiers -- cannot efficiently handle temporary application data that must be sharable between servers to provide high application availability and seamless scalability. But technologies, many of them open source, have emerged that deliver an important piece of infrastructure to manage this work-in-progress data.

Flash storage gets enterprise attention as prices decline

Jon Brodkin — 2008-06-25T00:00:00Z

It seems everyone is talking about flash memory, a type of solid-state storage that offers faster and more energy-efficient performance than rotating disk drives. The downside is that it's about 20 times more expensive than high-performance Fibre Channel drives, but that's where the popularity of USB sticks and the iPod comes in.

Cisco CEO Chambers: We don't need to own VMware

Jim Duffy — 2008-06-25T00:00:00Z

ORLANDO -- It's not incumbent upon Cisco to own a company like VMware to broaden its presence in the data center, CEO John Chambers said this week.

VMware's CEO talks Microsoft, security, EMC and cloud computing

Jon Brodkin — 2008-06-24T00:00:00Z

VMware CEO Diane Greene on competing vs. Microsoft, the emergence of cloud computing and her relationship with EMC.

McAfee extends enterprise antivirus line

Ellen Messmer — 2008-06-09T00:00:00Z

McAfee lays out a broad strategy to extend its VirusScan Enterprise product line to cover the separate areas of offline virtual images, SAP's NetWeaver and storage.

It's a product mad, mad EMC World

Deni Connor — 2008-05-29T00:00:00Z

EMC World happened last week in Las Vegas. At the show some 9,000 attendees heard EMC's visions for content management, virtualization and Web 2.0 storage.

Is your data center ready for tomorrow's applications?

2004-04-12T00:00:00Z

Click here to see what Gartner, Network World and other experts say about the new data center.