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EMC CEO Joe Tucci Makes His Case For Hybrid Cloud Era

EMC and its spinoff, VMware, along with their progeny called Pivotal, make a formidable trio as IT firms aim to survive and thrive in the cloud computing era. The Internet cloud proffers a new kind of competition. Amazon (AMZN), Microsoft (MSFT) and Google (GOOG) have been attracting more companies to infrastructure-as-a-service, or IaaS, where customers rent servers and storage resources as needed. EMC (EMC), the No. 1 data storage company, is

EMC’s New Mission: Mobile, Cloud, Big Data World

When Joe Tucci took over as EMC chief executive in January 2001, he faced the challenge of reviving a company that took a big hit in the 2000-01 dot-com crash, with annual revenue falling to $5.4 billion in 2002 from $8.8 billion just two years earlier. The data storage system-maker’s customers were shifting to client-server computing and shared, networked resources. Tucci knew software innovation would be key. EMC (EMC), based in Hopkinton,

NetApp Earnings Should Reveal Data Storage Challenges

Data storage vendor NetApp (NTAP), challenged by shifting market conditions and startup competitors, is scheduled to report earnings after the market close Wednesday. NetApp designs, develops and markets networked storage systems and data management software. Its primary competitor is EMC (EMC), but NetApp has also been pressured by competition from developers of flash-based storage systems, as well as cloud-based providers of