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QLogic Appoints New VP of Marketing
Networking solutions maker QLogic announced a pretty significant executive level change today. Chris Humphrey is now vice president of corporate marketing, effective immediately. He will be responsible for promoting his company’s products throughout the entire world. Humphrey comes to QLogic from Honeywell Life Safety, where he served as vice president and general manager for a “global ...
Symantec Rolls Out Major Update with SAMG Version 6
Software and security solutions maker Symantec Vision unveiled the latest version of its Storage and Availability Management software for virtualized deployments. V6 introduces a lot of new things, including a pay as you go model to try and haul in more customers. Symantec promises SAMG 6 can handle multi-tiered applications a lot better, and that it ...
Quantum’s Latest Scaling Dedupe Heats Up Competition
Backup and recovery solutions provider Quantum announced it latest offering, the DXi4601 disk backup system. It’s designed for relatively small deployments, and its selling point is that it doesn’t require a major and expensive upgrade to scale up in case the company that’s using it needs more capacity. The basic version comes with four terabytes ...
BI Firm Pentaho Appoints New Chief Executive, Quentin Gallivan
BI firm Pentaho announced Quentin Gallivan has been appointed as its new CEO. Gallivan will be replacing founder Richard Daley, who is stepping down from his role as the company’s head to become its Chief Strategy Officer. He will also remain active on Pentaho’s board. “Quentin Gallivan came to our attention because of his proven ...
EMC Plus Intel Makes Sharepoint Speedy and Strong
Storage solutions provider EMC, integrator NEC and chipmaker Intel announced a Sharepoint configuration, fusing together tech from the three companies at the Microsoft SharePoint Conference 2011. The offering uses EMC VNX for storage and the NEC Express Server configuration, powered by Intel Xeon E7 processors. A demo at the conference even managed to set a new record: ...
EMC Ships First Project Lightening PCI-e Cards
Speaking at Oracle OpenWorld 2011 (see our coverage highlights here), Pat Gelsinger, EMC’s president and COO, revealed that his company is already shipping Project Lightning to beta customers. The product was first announced back at EMC World in May, and is a PCI-e flash card. Early customers received the 320GB version. The technology brings data ...
EMC’s Bill Schmarzo Talks Skill Gap in Cloud Era
Bill Schmarzo, the CTO of EMC’s enterprise information management service line sat down at theCube with SiliconANGLE’s John Furrier and Wikibon’s Dave Vellante during day 2 of Oracle OpenWorld 2011. Schmarzo talked about big data, his company and Oracle. He explained the outline of what he’s been seeing among customers in context to big data: ...
Red Hat Acquires Open-Source Storage Firm Gluster
Today Linux distributor Red Hat had a pretty a big announcement. The company acquired Gluster, a provider of open-source storage software for $136 million in cash. This represents a major expansion for Red Hat, as well as a significant boost to its current portfolio: GlusterFS is already used by a number of major companies including ...
How EMC Fits into Oracle’s Ecosystem
Steve Manley, CTO of EMC’s Backup and Recovery Systems visited theCube this week during our live event coverage at Oracle OpenWorld 2011, and discussed how his unit and company (in particular VMware) blend into Oracle’s ecosystem. The discussion with Wikibon’s founder Dave Vellante started with a look into the more significant trends shaping the backup industry. Manley ...
HP Finalizes Autonomy Deal, Ellison Claims Oracle’s Still Better
Hewlett-Packard published a press release today announcing that it has closed off the $10.3 billion acquisition of Autonomy, a UK-based analytics firm. The electronics giant acquired 213,421,299 shares of the company for $39.28 per share in cash, 87.34 percent worth, and has now assumed control of it. “The acquisition positions HP as a leader in the ...