The Public Cloud: Friend or Foe for Storage Vendors, John Webster blog post

By John Webster, Wednesday, August 11th 2010

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www.cnet.com/data-driven Last year, storage vendors were all about cloud. They saw major-league opportunities in the private, public, hybrid, and federated versions. No cloud was too big or too small. In fact, because clouds were "infinitely scalable," there was no limit...

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EMC builds new data computing division around Greenplum, CNET Data-driven blog by John Webster

By John Webster, Thursday, July 8th 2010

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EMC has announced it will acquire Greenplum, a data warehousing and business analytics software firm for an undisclosed sum. EMC will use this acquisition to form the basis of a new Data Computing Products Division led by Bill Cook, CEO...

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EMC’s Gelsinger plans to deliver application fluidity, blog by John Webster

By John Webster, Friday, March 12th 2010

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John Webster comments on the  Pat Gelsinger, EMC's COO for Information Infrastructure Products, recently imparted vision for the future of IT.  Pat spoke to a group of analysts gathered in Hopkinton, Mass last week. Gelsinger, who now manages some of the company's crown...

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Will EMC’s rising tide float all storage boats? CNET Data-driven blog by John Webster

By John Webster, Thursday, October 29th 2009

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Given that the phrase "our current economy" has such a negative connotation, EMC's third-quarter earnings report last week was downright upbeat. EMC surpassed its own optimistic guidance for the fiscal quarter just ended by 4 percent. Wow. Other phrases like...

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The remodeling of EMC’s executive office suite, CNET Data-driven blog by John Webster

By John Webster, Tuesday, September 15th 2009

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Earlier this week, EMC revealed that it has attracted longtime Intel executive Pat Gelsinger to run its storage business. Gelsinger is set to become president and chief operating officer of EMC's Information Infrastructure Products (virtually all in EMC's product group...

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