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• EMC's XtremIO gets bigger, packs in more flash

  EMC says enterprises like its XtremIO all-flash storage array, so in version 4.0, the company is offering more of it.

• EMC Syncplicity lets enterprises manage their own encryption keys

  Some enterprises that are happy to put their data in a public cloud prefer to keep the keys to that data under their own control. That's the message online file sync and sharing services are sending lately.

• Indiana law is fast having 'definite negative impact' on tech

  Organizers of the upcoming Indy Big Data Conference are feeling the impact of the tech industry's anger over Indiana's new "religious freedom" law and want state lawmakers to correct the law -- quickly.

• EMC pools enterprise smarts to create data lakes

  EMC is drawing on its "federation" of companies to help customers build data lakes using EMC storage, VMware virtualisation and Pivotal Big Data smarts.

• The myth about how Amazon's Web service started just won't die

  There's a rumor that goes around cloud circles about how Amazon.com created what is now the multi-billion dollar infrastructure as a service (IaaS) cloud computing industry in the early 2000s.

• Dell, EMC, VMware and others get giddy over converged infrastructure

  IT can be complicated, so during the past few years the idea of an easy to deploy, all-in-one compute network and storage appliance has taken hold and been dubbed converged infrastructure. What started as a niche market a few years ago has blossomed into a multi-billion dollar business with many of technology's biggest players involved.

• EMC's all-in-one compute appliance comes with an app store

  Converged infrastructure equipment is designed for ease of use, and EMC's latest product emulates the easiest tech toys around by including an app store.

• EMC plans layoffs in wake of weakened outlook

  Storage giant, EMC, will soon start handing out pink slips as part of a new restructuring effort prompted by a weakened financial outlook.

• EMC shoots down break-up talk: 'We're better together'

  Would EMC ever split up its federation of EMC, VMware, RSA, Pivotal and now VCE? According to Jeremy Burton, president of products and marketing at EMC, no.

• Blueprint for the next generation data centre

  The concept of running a software-defined data centre is gaining plenty of attention in IT circles. It is merely hype, or are we on the cusp of realising the full potential of virtualization?

• Disk storage market grows with inclusion of ODM vendors

  Disk storage sales grew more strongly in the third quarter, helped by sales of non-branded storage gear sold directly to datacenters.

• Data loss, downtime costs Aussie businesses $65B

  Data loss and downtime has cost Australian organisations around $65.5 billion (US$55 billion) in the last 12 months, according to a new survey.
  

• Cisco seen building momentum in Nexus 9K, ACI

  Cisco is getting a lift from apparent momentum behind its Nexus 9000 switches and Application Centric Infrastructure fabric. Investment firm UBS boosted its Cisco stock price targets after discussions with EMEA chief Chris Dedicoat yielded numbers UBS found encouraging.

• In Pictures: 2014’s biggest Cloud deals (so far)

  The most important cloud acquisitions this year have one thing in common: OpenStack.

• How CIOs Can Keep Their Jobs by Picking the Right Vendors

  I was taken by a customer presentation by Stephen Rayda, CTO of Purdue Pharma, at this week's EMC Analyst Summit. Like all pharmaceutical firms, Purdue faces a lot of pressure -- and it just got a new CEO to boot. He asked which departments didn't need his attention; luckily, IT was the only one to make that list.