CSC has released a new enterprise product that aims to help businesses monitor their cybersecurity platforms and abide by compliance and regulatory standards. Horizon is designed to function in both traditional and cloud-based networks and works to defend against potential threats to electronic platforms and online facilities, CSC said Wednesday. The company“™s global centers operate the […] More

VMware announced that it will host its 10th annual cloud computing convention in San Francisco and Barcelona in August and October, respectively. The VMworld 2013 U.S. conference will be held at the Moscone Center in San Francisco from August 25 to 29, the company announced July 2. The VMworld 2013 Europe conference will be at […] More

EMC Corp. has been ranked 32nd on the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency‘s latest list of the top 50 buyers of renewable energy in the country. The company acquires 175 million kilowatt hours of green power credits per year, enough to offset 31 percent of its annual electricity consumption, EMC said Thursday. According to the EPA, […] More

EMC Corp. has signed a memorandum of understanding with Indian university Rajiv Gandhi Proudyogiki Vishwavidyalaya to build a corporate school in RGPV“™s Bhopal campus, CIOL reported Tuesday. The school will offer courses to engineering graduates including information storage and management, cloud infrastructure and services, backup recovery systems and architecture and data science and big data […] More

EMC Corp. has inked a deal to acquire converged storage developer ScaleIO for an undisclosed amount as part of efforts to expand the company“™s storage portfolios. ScaleIO will run under EMC“™s Flash business unit and integrate its Elastic Converged Storage software into the company“™s XtremSW products designed to help customers manage PCIe flash storage in […] More

EMC Corp. has unveiled a new suite of hardware and software offerings designed to help customers protect their data storage infrastructure. The protection storage architectures build on EMC“™s Data Domain, Avamar, NetWorker and Mozy products and work to secure storage, integrate data source and manage information, EMC said Wednesday. The company intends for the products […] More

EMC Corp. has acquired Aveksa, an identity and access management provider, for an undisclosed amount in a move aimed to expand EMC’s security division. Aveksa will join EMC’s RSA security division, EMC said Monday.  Privately held Aveksa’s identity and access governance and provisioning solutions will seek to provide RSA customers with secure and appropriate enterprise cloud applications access. The […] More

EMC Corp. will install its storage and computing infrastructure for North Carolina State University’s library to investigate and visualize data. The company will also provide the James B. Hunt Jr. Library with technology intended to support simulation environments and an interactive cloud service, EMC said Tuesday. Opened in early 2013, the Hunt Library supports the […] More

Aileen Black currently serves as vice president of the public sector team for VMware, where she leads the company’s federal government sales and strategy efforts. The federal team focuses on delivering virtualization solutions to the company“™s government customers. Black, a 23-year veteran of the high-tech industry, has received recognition from outside the company, being named by […] More

Tom Georgens, president and CEO of NetApp, is joining the board of directors at three-dimensional engineering and software firm Autodesk, effective March 21. Georgens served as NetApp’s chief operating officer and executive vice president for enterprise storage systems and product operations before being promoted to chief executive and president in August 2009, Autodesk said Monday. He […] More

Microsoft has appointed Judson Althoff as corporate vice president and president of North America sales and marketing, according to a Microsoft statement. Effective March 29, 2013, the 18-year technology veteran will will manage a team of sales, marketing and services professionals in the U.S. and Canada. Kevin Turner, chief operating officer at Microsoft, said Judson has previously developed, grown and […] More

EMC Corp.’s security arm RSA and Juniper Networks have agreed to share intelligence aimed at helping clients defend networks from advanced threats and access cloud-based corporate resources via mobile devices. RSA will integrate its Live threat intelligence delivery service into Juniper“™s Junos Spotlight Secure global attacker intelligence service, RSA said Monday. Juniper will add RSA Security […] More