• EMC lays off more than 1000 as restructuring continues

  As part of its ongoing restructuring, EMC today announced its latest round of layoffs, which are expected to include 1004 positions.

• Isilon OneFS software to expand scope of EMC's scale-out NAS

  EMC will continue extending its Isilon OneFS network-attached storage operating system to new use cases later this year, adding deduplication, compliance auditing and object storage features.

• EMC's Syncplicity to gain hybrid-cloud storage capability

  Only a year after acquiring Syncplicity, EMC is getting ready to make the company's enterprise file management system work with hybrid clouds.

• Software AG buys LongJump for cloud PaaS

  Software AG has picked up cloud PaaS (platform-as-a-service) vendor LongJump in a bid to give small and medium-sized companies a way to rapidly develop applications with less involvement from IT. Terms of the deal, which was announced Thursday, were not disclosed.

• Pivotal puts PaaS in the spotlight

  In launching Pivotal, the partnership of EMC, VMware and GE is attempting to refocus the conversation in the market about how a new generation of applications that use big data will be built.

• 13 events that defined Cisco's 2012

  From software defined networking challenges to killing Cius and corporate restricting moves, it was a busy year for Cisco.

• EMC extends deadline for its Data Domain bid

  EMC has extended from June 29 to July 10 the deadline on its US$1.8 billion offer to purchase all outstanding shares of storage backup vendor Data Domain, in an effort to entice Data Domain to abandon a deal with NetApp.

• Cisco, EMC, VMware form private cloud pact

  The current ratio of IT spend on maintaining IT systems against innovation has become unsustainable according to EMC’s Australian president, David Webster.

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