One of the messages that came out of the EMC Analyst event held in London last week was that the company will continue to make acquisitions to enhance its product line. The company has acquired more than 20 software companies over the last three years, evolving its business from a storage-only vendor to a company focused on delivering solutions for the entire information infrastructure. Acquisitions include Documentum, Legato, VMware, Smarts, nLayers, RSA Security, and network intelligence. It is, theref…
OpinionWire Articles - published 23/11/2006 - Mark Blowers
Dell Inc. and Symantec Corp. have announced a new bundled service that will help smaller organisations with e-mail management. Secure Exchange is a package of hardware, software, and services designed to improve the security and archiving capabilities of their e-mail infrastructures, and to simplify the implementation of Microsoft Exchange. The bundle includes Dell PowerEdge servers, PowerVault storage, Dell/EMC Storage, Symantec Mail Security 200 Series, Symantec Mail Security for Microsoft Exchange, Sy…
OpinionWire Articles - published 19/10/2006 - Sue Clarke
Despite several high profile cases of companies losing unencrypted data tapes compromising personal customer details, many large organisations are still failing to encrypt their back-up tapes. One reason for this is a lack of best practices for encrypting data, and the fact that organisations have no idea how to tackle the issue. To encrypt all data will invariably produce an overhead in terms of the window required to complete back-ups, and also in recovery times. Added to this is the fact that there ar…
Butler Group Review Articles - published 01/09/2006 - Sue Clarke
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