EMC Joins the Flash Madness Club by Acquiring Israel’s XtremIO

EMC’s latest acquisition is a would-be rival to Violin Memory and Pure Storage. Also: Watch Fusion-IO shares today.
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Intel’s Romley Chip Is Good News for Storage Players EMC and NetApp

But maybe not so much for Intel itself, Deutsche Bank analyst Chris Whitmore argues.
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Seven Questions for RSA Security Head Art Coviello

A year after an attack on its widely used security system, the head of RSA Security talks about lessons learned and what the computer security industry needs to do next.
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News Byte

VMWare Co-Founder Diane Greene Joins Google’s Board

Search giant Google said today it had appointed Diane B. Greene to its board of directors. Greene, 56, is a co-founder of VMWare and took that company public in 2007. She was its CEO and president for 10 years ending 2008, and was executive vice president at EMC, which partially owns VMWare. She also sits on the board of Intuit.

eBay Is the Most Recent Bay Area Transplant to Seek Access to Seattle’s Talent Pool

The e-commerce giant has joined a growing list of companies willing to brave the rain in order to gain access to a deep pool of technology engineers in Seattle.
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Voices

EMC Posts Strong Results

EMC Corp. posted record results in its third quarter and said demand for its products remains strong, alleviating worries about a slowdown in technology spending.

Former Data Domain CEO Frank Slootman Gets His Old Band Back Together

The reunited Data Domain gang is tuning up for an IPO with ServiceNow, a fast-growing, cloud-based help-desk play.
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AMD Names Lenovo COO Rory P. Read as Its New CEO

The long search for a CEO at chipmaker Advanced Micro Devices has ended just as suddenly as it began.
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Flash Madness Part 3: Pure Storage Comes Out of Stealth

The summer that flash memory began to transform the data center continues as Pure Storage unleashes an all-flash storage array.
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Now That Intel’s In Control at McAfee, President Dave DeWalt Resigns

Intel has named two new co-presidents at its newly acquired McAfee security software subsidiary. The bigger news is that president Dave DeWalt is leaving.
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