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• EMC's all-in-one compute appliance comes with an app store

  Converged infrastructure equipment is designed for ease of use, and EMC's latest product emulates the easiest tech toys around by including an app store.

• EMC launches VSPEX BLUE hyperconverged appliances

  “These appliances rapidly reduce cost, improve agility and increase IT maturity to enable customers to quickly grow as their needs change and truly embrace hybrid cloud,” says Arron Patterson, chief technology officer, EMC NZ.
  

• EMC plans layoffs in wake of weakened outlook

  Storage giant, EMC, will soon start handing out pink slips as part of a new restructuring effort prompted by a weakened financial outlook.

• Disk storage market grows with inclusion of ODM vendors

  Disk storage sales grew more strongly in the third quarter, helped by sales of non-branded storage gear sold directly to datacenters.

• In Pictures: 2014’s biggest Cloud deals (so far)

  The most important cloud acquisitions this year have one thing in common: OpenStack.

• How CIOs Can Keep Their Jobs by Picking the Right Vendors

  I was taken by a customer presentation by Stephen Rayda, CTO of Purdue Pharma, at this week's EMC Analyst Summit. Like all pharmaceutical firms, Purdue faces a lot of pressure -- and it just got a new CEO to boot. He asked which departments didn't need his attention; luckily, IT was the only one to make that list.

• EMC snaps up three startups to help build hybrid Clouds

  EMC has continued its push into hybrid Clouds, buying three startups and introducing a package of hardware, software and services for getting a Cloud up and running.

• The front runner

  Martin Hargreaves of VocaLink talks about leading the technology team for the national grid for payments in the UK.

• EMC buys controlling interest in VCE, its joint venture with Cisco

  EMC has confirmed it will purchase the bulk of Cisco's stake in VCE, the companies' joint venture in converged infrastructure products.

• VCE rolls out an all-in-one system with EMC's all-flash XtremIO array

  VCE is expanding its line of all-in-one cloud systems, adding one with all-flash storage and offering more options for enterprises that want an easier path to the cloud.

• EMC reportedly held merger talks with Hewlett-Packard

  EMC spent almost a year discussing a merger with Hewlett-Packard and is weighing its options in light of the expected retirement of CEO Joe Tucci and shareholder discontent, according to a report in the Wall Street Journal.

• How analytics empowers business

  The 2014 Computerworld Data+ Editors' Choice Awards honorees were selected for their ability to make better business decisions using big data.

• Disk storage market shows anemic growth

  The total disk storage systems market barely grew in the second quarter at a 0.3 percent year-over-year increase, with a continued drop in high-end storage sales, according to research firm IDC.

• VMworld 2014: VMware calls new "hyper-converged" system a building block for software-defined datacentres

  VMware this week unveiled at its VMworld event the first in a family of "hyper-converged" systems, a product called EVO:RAIL that it says will help customers build software-defined datacentres.

• EMC gives VMware admins the reins to replication and recovery

  EMC is putting replication and recovery into the hands of VMware administrators with a software version of its RecoverPoint appliance that's designed for cloud computing.