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• Like EMC, HP pushes around smaller rival in bidding war

  The HP/Dell bidding war over storage vendor 3Par is shaping up to be a repeat of last year's high-profile battle between EMC and NetApp.

• 3Par buyout puts Dell in ring against IBM, HP - even partner EMC

  With the acquisition of 3Par, Dell is positioning itself against top data center storage providers, including IBM, Hewlett-Packard, Hitachi and even Dell-partner EMC.

• The short list for HP's next CEO could be long

  Analysts are developing a short list of possible candidates to replace former Hewlett-Packard Co. CEO Mark Hurd, who resigned Friday. But it's worth noting that Hurd's name didn't come up often, if at all, as a contender in 2005, when he was tapped for the HP job.

• EMC releases new midrange deduplication array

  EMC announced three new products, including a new midrange Data Domain deduplication appliance, a new disk archive system with deduplication for mainfames and a disk library series with arrays that scale from 8TB to 1.4PB.

• Amazon and IBM are the 'cloud champions,' report says

  Amazon and IBM are the "cloud champions" according to a new report, but Microsoft, Google, Cisco, Red Hat and VMware are also among the list of heavyweights in the emerging cloud computing field.

• EMC-Greenplum deal could precede more consolidation

  EMC's announcement this week of plans to purchase data warehousing vendor Greenplum represents a harbinger of things to come for that market, as well as related areas like BI (business intelligence) and data integration, according to some analysts.

• EMC to acquire data analyzer Greenplum

  EMC plans to acquire Greenplum for an undisclosed sum and form a new division around the privately held company's data warehousing technology.

• VMware co-founder tackles virtualization at Cisco

  The five visionary tech executives who created VMware and launched the x86 virtualization market have kept low public profiles in recent years, with four leaving VMware as the company gets remade by owner EMC.

• Oracle revamps content management suite

  Oracle on Tuesday is unveiling Enterprise Content Management Suite 11g, a pillar of its sprawling middleware stack and competitor to products from IBM, EMC, Open Text and other vendors.

• EMC 'Boosts' Data Domain de-duplication speed by 50%

  BOSTON -- <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9138245/EMC_Update">EMC</a><a href="http://canada.emc.com/about/news/press/2010/20100511-01.htm">announced at its annual user conference</a> here on Tuesday a new software add-on that increases the performance of its Data Domain appliance by an average of 50%.

• Start-up Infineta attacks data center connection logjams

  Start-up Infineta Systems is coming out of stealth mode just in time to reveal that it is working on one of the knotty problems raised this week at the EMC World conference – how to connect data centers efficiently for backup, replication and cloud services that rely on live migration of virtual machines.

• Cloud computing to increase annual data growth 24-fold by 2020: study

  The next 10 years will result in huge growth in the IT sector, with cloud computing stimulating more than $US1 trillion in incremental business revenue by 2014, according to a new study.

• EMC reports record first quarter sales

  EMC has reported first quarter revenue of $US3.9 billion, along with profits of $373 million, up 92% from the year-ago period.

• New cyber crime intelligence service launched

  A new service to identify enterprise vulnerabilities to cyber-crime attacks is being launched by RSA, the security division of EMC.

• EMC chief's pay drops 23 per cent to $9 million

  EMC CEO Joe Tucci was awarded a compensation package valued at $9 million in 2009, according to documents filed this week with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.