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The best photo storage services to suit your needs
Over the last two months, I've spent countless hours sifting through 50,000 photos and videos my wife has captured throughout our eight-year marriage. It was an enlightening experience to re-live old...
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Dave Donatelli, ex of EMC, ex of HP, to lead Oracle hardware
That thing F. Scott Fitzgerald said about there being no second acts in American lives? It clearly does not hold for Dave Donatelli. Donatelli--who left EMC EMC six years ago to head up...
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This big data startup is as unique as a snowflake
It's often said that no two snowflakes are the same--each snowflake is unique. That saying is apt for Snowflake Computing, a San Mateo-based startup that is trying to carve for itself a niche in the...
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How NASA beamed data over billions of miles from Pluto to Earth
It took roughly ten years and three billion miles, but NASA's New Horizons spacecraft finally reached Pluto on Tuesday. It's no surprise that NASA is calling the mission a success for being the first...
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Why EMC has no plans to split itself up
It's going to take more than declining quarterly profits for EMC to consider breaking itself up. The enterprise storage company detailed in its latest earnings report Wednesday that it earned $487...
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This startup wants to be the Apple of the data center
Not every enterprise storage company looks to Apple for inspiration. But for Pure Storage, Apple’s combination of software and hardware skills is exactly what it wants to emulate. Companies generate...
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Cisco pulls out of another business
Cisco Systems continue to trim the fat before Chuck Robbins steps in as CEO next week after longtime leader, John Chambers, steps down. The networking titan will no longer sell storage hardware, a line...
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Storage startup Datrium gets less stealthy, lands Northrim Bank as trial...
Datrium, a somewhat-mysterious startup, is starting to emerge from stealth. On Tuesday it said it’s signed a bank as trial candidate for its flagship product. Alaska’s Northrim Bank is trying out the...
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EMC may tighten its grip on VMware, much to Elliott Management’s chagrin
Talk about contrarian. For months EMC EMC chief executive Joe Tucci has resisted pressure from Elliott Management to sell EMC’s majority stake in VMware VMW . Now, with a stand-still agreement between...
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Report: EMC considering a buyout by VMware
EMC may be on the verge of a major overhaul to its corporate structure with the company considering selling itself to VMware, the data center virtualization company that EMC is a majority owner of,...
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DataGravity update promises to help protect your stored data
DataGravity is a storage startup that says it helps businesses know more about the data they have. Not just how much, but who’s writing it, accessing it, deleting it, and who’s spiriting it out of the...
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Fast-rising startup Pure Storage files for an IPO
Pure Storage, a data storage company that is trying to challenge bigger rivals like EMC and Western Digital, plans to go public. The Silicon Valley company filed paperwork with federal regulators...
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What’s with this VMware executive diaspora?
Chuck Hollis, a longtime executive with EMC and then VMware, is joining Oracle where he will again work with fellow EMC veteran Dave Donatelli. As to what he’ll be doing? Other than blogging, he’ s not...
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Why EMC is feeling the heat
Enterprise storage is a difficult business. Just consider the industry’s kingpin, EMC. In its latest earnings, the company’s storage division had $4.4 billion in sales. But revenue grew at a paltry 1%...
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Despite corporate drama, it’s business as usual for VMware
When VMware President Carl Eschenbach arrived on stage at the data center software company's annual conference in San Francisco on Monday, it was business as usual. Eschenbach boasted about the 23,000...
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Five big takeaways from VMworld
VMware attracted a huge crowd to its annual conference this week to talk about wonky technology that helps companies operate data centers and manage mobile devices. Although not particularly well known...
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Why Apple’s 16GB iPhone might not be such a bad thing
Apple AAPL will stay the course and keep the entry-level version of its upcoming iPhone 6S and iPhone 6S Plus at 16GB, according to recent reports. At the end of the day, is a paltry 13GB--the amount...
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Harvard prof to big battery makers: Be careful
A Holy Grail of the low-carbon energy economy has been industrial-grade batteries. The thinking is that because electricity derived from wind and the sun is intermittent, the ultimate solution is to...
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How Box is trying to win the enterprise
What a difference a decade makes. Just 10 years ago, a little startup called Box premiered with the idea that it could make a business out of storing people's documents on servers they don’t have to...
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Report: Pure Storage sets IPO price of $17 per share
Data storage company Pure Storage has set the price of its initial public offering at $17 per share late Tuesday, according to the Wall Street Journal. The pricing values the company at $3.1 billion in...
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