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

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	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."We think we're better together," Burton told Network World on Thursday. "At a time when the tech industry is changing, I think the big guys are going to do better than the midsize guys. It's difficult to make an argument that we'd be better as two smaller entities."But plenty of people have been making the argument that EMC should split up its storage business from its virtualization business, VMware or maybe even spin out its security division RSA into its own company too. 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Read More Self-repairing disk arrays: Cheaper and more reliable than RAID 6 Any organization that's serious about its data integrity uses storage systems based on RAID level 6 (that's block-level striping with double distributed parity) which can tolerate the failure of two simultaneous disk failures.  Wikipedia Diagram of a RAID 6 setup with distributed parity with each color representing the group of blocks in the respective parity block (a stripe). Note that there are two parity blocks compared to RAID 5's single parity block.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More   WHITE PAPER: Nasuni 5 Ways Cloud-integrated Storage Reduces Costs Many companies are considering using cloud storage to reduce costs and the IT burden of storing data in the enterprise. Learn More After acquiring Sanbolic to fill storage void, could Citrix target networking next?   This week, Citrix announced it was acquiring Sanbolic, a vendor that provides virtual storage technology for virtual data centers. The Waltham, Massachusetts-based company enables customers to "software define" storage to optimize the delivery of workloads between any types of media. This includes SSD, flash storage, cloud, SAN, and NAS systems, and the aim is to improve application performance and availability, and especially storage utilization.The purchase by Citrix is an interesting one in that it fills a big void in the company's overall virtualization portfolio. 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