Lenovo and EMC Create LenovoEMC JV to Bring NAS to SMBs and Distributed Enterprise Sites

Lenovo and EMC Corporation announced today that they have completed the formation of LenovoEMC Ltd, the joint venture previously announced in August 2012 along with a wider strategic partnership in industry standard servers and networked storage solutions. Incorporating the core assets of EMC’s Iomega business, the new JV will bring co-branded network attached storage (NAS)… Continue reading Lenovo and EMC Create LenovoEMC JV to Bring NAS to SMBs and Distributed Enterprise Sites

Cisco, VMware Expand Partnership to Deliver Next Generation Cloud Infrastructures

Today Cisco and VMware announced they plan to expand their strategic partnership to include integrated products and solutions aimed at delivering the software defined datacenter. This partnership expansion will be highlighted by an investment in dedicated engineering teams collaborating on deeper integrations across the VMware cloud infrastructure and management stacks and Cisco’s Data Center Networking… Continue reading Cisco, VMware Expand Partnership to Deliver Next Generation Cloud Infrastructures

EMC Avamar Powers New VMware vSphere Data Protection Solution

VMworld 2012 – Solution Highlights VMware vSphere® Data Protection™, powered by EMC® Avamar® software, is an all-new backup and recovery solution to be included with VMware vSphere 5.1. VMware vSphere Data Protection is tightly integrated with vSphere, simple to set up and can be managed directly from the new vSphere Web Client. VMware vSphere Data… Continue reading EMC Avamar Powers New VMware vSphere Data Protection Solution

Vendors Demo Software Defined Cloud Networking at VMworld 2012

VMworld US 2012 Arista Networks today announced Software Defined Networking (SDN) technology innovations that demonstrate the first multi-vendor programmatic automation with solutions from F5 Networks, VMware and EMC Isilon that enable end-to-end network virtualization from physical, to virtual, to cloud networks. The joint demonstration of the Virtual Extensible LAN (VXLAN) specification by Arista and others… Continue reading Vendors Demo Software Defined Cloud Networking at VMworld 2012

OASIS Forms TOSCA Technical Committee to Advance Open Standard for Cloud Portability

The OASIS international consortium has launched a new open standards initiative to enhance the portability of cloud applications and services. The OASIS Topology and Orchestration Specification for Cloud Applications (TOSCA) Technical Committee will advance an interoperability standard that will make it easier to deploy cloud applications without vendor lock-in, while maintaining application requirements for security,… Continue reading OASIS Forms TOSCA Technical Committee to Advance Open Standard for Cloud Portability

A big cloud on the horizon proves to be good news in computer industry

BEIJING – Global data-storage suppliers are looking at China’s small and medium-sized enterprise (SME) market as demand surges on the back of a rise in cloud computing. “The data quantity in medium-sized companies has seen an average increase of 59 percent annually. Demand could be huge in the next three to five years,” said Adrian… Continue reading A big cloud on the horizon proves to be good news in computer industry

Burris Logistics Standardizes on EMC for its VMware Virtualized IT Environment

EMC Corporation today announced that Burris Logistics, a Delaware-based specialist in refrigerated and frozen food distribution, has standardized its information infrastructure on EMC–selecting EMC® Symmetrix VMAX® and EMC unified storage–over NetApp and IBM, for its exceptional reliability, performance and value. Its EMC infrastructure has enabled Burris to easily virtualize 80% of its IT infrastructure with… Continue reading Burris Logistics Standardizes on EMC for its VMware Virtualized IT Environment

Personal Cloud: Iomega Announces New StorCenter ix2 Network Storage

Iomega Corporation, an EMC company (NYSE: EMC) and a leading innovator in data storage solutions for small and medium businesses (SMBs), today announced the new Iomega® StorCenter™ ix2 Network Storage, an advanced two-bay desktop network storage device available in multiple configurations and designed specifically for content sharing and data protection as well as cloud computing… Continue reading Personal Cloud: Iomega Announces New StorCenter ix2 Network Storage