EMC has picked up a storage management application from BMC Software in another sign of the shifting ground in the storage industry. In return, BMC will begin to resell EMC's ControlCenter software as the sole storage products for corporate customers.
Nicholas Tabellion, CTO of Fujitsu Softek, said: "If IT departments are running on EMC's storage products, they have to buy both data mirroring and snapshot technology separately which are both proprietary technologies to EMC.
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Kevin Lloyd, CTO at Barclays, echoed the sentiments of many on the jury who recognise the potential of wireless technology but put it way down the list of current priorities. A recent analyst report suggested that wireless connectivity of the...
Like IT itself, a recent trend in storage is to make it strongly influenced by business priorities. For example, EMC has announced an assessment and classification service that is an entry point to ILM, and StorageTek has augmented its services...
According to figures from both Gartner and IDC, Veritas owns about a fifth of the storage software market, behind EMC, which last summer captured Veritas' archrival Legato at the start of a string of acquisitions that also saw purchases of...