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Rivals tout antidotes to EMC's ViPR bite

Comment Clowns, beef, ringleaders, fire brigades... PAH! - HDS
Mark Moshayedi Jan 2013 Interim STEC CEO

Fallen flash flogger sTec says direct sales will save its bacon

Two years of plummeting revenue and a dim light at end of tunnel

Opinion

Dan Crain

Whiptail CEO: Big Blue's flashy BEELLION doesn't faze us

Interview Undaunted by IBM's billion dollar investment in flash, all-flash array startup Whiptail is banking on new investor SanDisk, says Whiptail CEO Dan Crain.
Rattlesnake

EMC's ViPR: Is it really that venomous?

Storagebod There’s a lot of discussion about what EMC's ViPR is and what it isn’t. How much of this confusion is deliberate and how much is simply the normal of fog of war which pervades the storage industry?
Shane Robison

Former Fusion-io CEO just wasn't that into operations, says new broom

Fusion-io CEO and co-founder David Flynn resigned because he realised he didn't have the operational management skills needed to grow Fusion-io into a global business. That, in a nutshell, is what we understand after talking to replacement CEO Shane Robison.

News

EMC throws ViPR into software-defined party

Software-defined storage snake slithers into service providers
Matt Damon

EMC to reveal identity of Bourne-based storage platform

Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it's...

Brocade's fat pipes shrink: Fibre Channel revenue dip ahead

Estimates up to 6pc drop from last quarter

Seagate's bottom line smacked as users bin desktops for tablets

Drive-maker looks to cloud, 5mm slab product for succour
OPtimus Echo

SMART brings out 2.5-in, 2 terabyte block-o-Flash to rival sTec

You can't smoke enterprise SSD, but get your pipe out

EMC offers 'continuous protection' to hot 'n' heavy VMAX users

EMC has boosted the continuous data protection capability of VMAX, meaning that every change made to the data held in the arrays be recorded and replicated to a remote system. The storage giant's unified file-and-block storage platform VNX will get a software-only version of RecoverPoint, and its data mobility product, VPLEX, will get a VNX frame-based licensing model.
Netapp

NetApp's Tour de France quest falls flat

When big vendors take on major sporting sponsorships, the first thing that usually happens is lots of shiny happy marketing material about just how the vendor's technology will propel athletes to success.

FalconStor on 13th quarterly loss: 'Unpredictable' OEM dragged us down

FalconStor has blamed "unpredictable performance" from one of its biggest Chinese OEM partners for the dent in its first quarter revenues. It has now totted up 13 loss-making quarters - although last quarter saw a boost in revenues - and the storage virtualisation supplier's lot is not a happy one.