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EMC Cutting Workforce by 7 Percent, CEO Tucci Takes Pay Cut
EMC (NYSE: EMC) announced it will cut its workforce by 7 percent as the data storage giant looks to cut costs. The storage giant will eliminate 2,400 positions as part of an effort to reduce costs by about $350 million in 2009 and an additional $500 million in 2010. Despite the pending layoff plans, EMC…
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VLT, Deduplication Show Strong Promise Among Budget Conscious Businesses
Data protection budgets are growing, according to a recent survey by virtual tape library (VTL) and deduplication software vendor Sepaton, offering a promising opportunity for solution providers selling into the lucrative space. The survey 600 business-technology consumers shows that regulatory pressures are driving much of the emphasis on data protection, but that increasing ROI and…
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DataCore Delivers High-Availability SANs for SMBs
DataCore Software is going back to basics to help make high-availability SAN technology available to partners and their cash-strapped SMB customers. As storage technology standardizes across the industry and storage virtualization moves downmarket, SAN technology has become widely available for even SMBs, says James Price, vice president of channel and product marketing. But one of…
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FalconStor Aims to Swoop Down on Data Domain’s SMB Market
FalconStor Software’s newly announced file interface deduplication solution promises to shake up the disk-to-disk (D2D) backup space and bring the cost-saving technology to small and midmarket businesses. For years, there has been a considerable disparity between low-priced tape and expensive disk-based storage systems, according to a 2007 report from Enterprise Strategy Group, making tape backups…
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Drafting VARs Could Secure U.S. Digital Infrastructure
The sorry state of cyber-security in the United States has made the nation vulnerable to attacks on its entire infrastructure, from the Internet to the national power grid, according to a Washington-based think tank. Now it’s up to solution providers to help accomplish what the federal government has not been able to–lock down our cyber-borders.…
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Microsoft, RSA Partner to Develop Next-Gen Data Loss Prevention
In unveiling a new technology sharing and development alliance, Microsoft and RSA—the security division of storage giant EMC—took the first step toward creating the next-generation of data loss prevention technology in which the protection of sensitive digital assets will eventually reside in the fabric of the IT infrastructure. Microsoft will integrate RSA’s data loss prevention…