The 10 Biggest EMC Stories Of 2015
To say it was a busy year in Hopkinton, Mass. would be a gross understatement. Here we look back at the 10 biggest EMC stories of the last 12 months.
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The 10 Biggest Microsoft Stories Of 2015
It was once again a busy year for Microsoft, as the world's largest software vendor launched Windows 10 and made big splashes in hardware and cloud computing. Here are CRN's picks for the top 10 Microsoft stories of the year. -
NetApp CEO: Solidfire's Technology Expected To Attract DevOps-Focused Enterprises, Service Providers
NetApp CEO George Kurian tells investors the vendor's $870 million acquisition of Solidfire is expected to bring in new types of customers that focus on DevOps and cloud software development. -
Sources: NetApp To Pull Trigger On SolidFire Acquisition Today
NetApp plans to take the wraps off its $1.2 billion acquisition of flash storage array vendor SolidFire, a move that will add highly regarded technology to its portfolio. -
Carbonite Expands Its Cloud Data Protection Tech To Midrange With EVault Acquisition
Carbonite, which has been quickly growing its small business data protection capabilities and moving from its consumer-focused roots, is taking a big step into the midrange with its acquisition of most of EVault from Seagate. -
The 10 Biggest Storage Stories Of 2015
As mature as the storage industry is, the year had so many startups, funding rounds and acquisitions that it might just as well have been the Wild West. -
NetApp To Make $1.2 Billion Bid For SolidFire: Sources
NetApp, which has seen its all-flash storage business grow even as its FlashRay business has not, looks set to make a bid for all-flash storage array maker SolidFire, but other vendors have also discussed such an acquisition, industry sources tell CRN. -
Carbonite Taps Bit9's Jessica Couto To Serve As Vice President, North American Channel Sales
Couto sat down with CRNtv to discuss her new post and Carbonite's new disaster recovery portfolio. -
Storage Startup Cohesity Appoints Ex-NetApp CEO To Board, Former Nicira CEO Joins As Adviser
Cohesity, run by former Google engineer and Nutanix co-founder Mohit Aron, named a couple of well-known industry veterans to board and advisory roles. -
NetApp Exec: Company Ready to Grow with New CEO, Flash, Cloud Offerings
New NetApp CEO George Kurian is squeezing out efficiencies in declining legacy lines so the vendor can double down on the surging cloud and flash storage markets. -
IDC: Storage Sales Shift From On-Prem External Arrays Toward Cloud, Server-Based Storage
A move away from external storage arrays spells bad news for storage-focused vendors, and by extension their solution provider communities. -
Pure Storage CEO: Dell-EMC Deal Didn't Come From Strength
Pure Storage CEO Scott Dietzen said Dell's proposed acquisition of EMC will create confusion and strategy shifts, enabling his company to win customers and channel partners from EMC. -
The 10 Coolest Storage Startups Of 2015
The importance of startups in developing new technologies that can significantly impact the storage industry continued this year as a strong new crop of technology developers rose to stake their claim. -
Violin Memory Reports Disappointing Quarter, Is Exploring 'Strategic Alternatives'
The all-flash storage array vendor's CEO cited a delay in a large solution rollout because of technical issues with the installed base of one of its largest customers for the revenue drop, and said the company remains attractive even as it explores strategic alternatives. -
Dell Said To Be Talking To Buyout Firms, Citigroup About Sale Of SonicWall, Quest, Perot
Dell is in serious discussions with several well-known buyout firms about the possibility of their purchasing SonicWall and Quest Software, and with Citigroup about selling Perot Systems in deals that could significantly cut the debt that would result from its EMC acquisition, according to Reuters. -
Violin Memory Expands All-flash Line As Way To Grow Its Primary Storage Business
Violin Memory, which had been focused on a narrow range of workloads with its high-performance all-flash storage solutions, found it needed to adapt its technology to fit a broad range of workloads as the way to grow. -
Dell Partners Say New EMC Reseller Agreement Would Smooth Road To Acquisition
Dell partners wonder whether Dell could begin reselling data storage giant EMC's products and solutions before the two companies finalize their proposed $67 billion merger next year. -
The 10 Coolest Servers Of 2015
The server market changed rapidly in 2015 as industry powerhouses Dell, EMC, HP and Lenovo raced to embrace new trends like hyper-converged infrastructure. -
SC15: Performance Storage Solutions For Supercomputing
The Supercomputing 2015 (SC15) conference brought a wide range of storage vendors looking to introduce storage to support the increasing requirements of supercomputing and high-performance computing environments. Here’s a look at 10 vendors and their products. -
The 10 Coolest Flash Storage And SSD Products Of 2015
All-flash storage may not yet be ubiquitous, but vendors in 2015 moved fast to open up the market with high-performance solutions priced to help push disk-based storage out of the data center.
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