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• Top 5 things to watch for at VMWorld 2014

  A year ago everyone wanted to know about VMware's big plan.

• Oracle hits back at ex-employee's claims over in-memory database option

  Oracle has responded to a former employee's claim that a new in-memory processing option is turned on by default with the latest release of Database 12c, insisting that the process of enabling it requires a series of deliberate steps.

• Highs and lows of CEO pay

  This year's proxy season has come to a close, and after digging through regulatory filings, 10 highlights stand out in our analysis of 62 tech CEOs' compensation.

• EMC looks to the clouds with TwinStrata and new VMax3 array

  EMC's TwinStrata acquisition announced on Tuesday is just part of a bigger move to keep its venerable VMax storage platform up to date with large enterprises as they enter the cloud era.

• EMC acquires TwinStrata to push corporate data into the cloud

  Storage vendor EMC has scooped up cloud storage management company TwinStrata, the companies announced Tuesday.

• New tools to lead through IT megatrends: EMC

  Highlights technologies to help speed new application innovation, cut cost and accelerate move to hybrid cloud at ‘Redefine Possible’ launch in London.

• Zeus Trojan alternative created from scratch hits the underground market

  A new Trojan program that can spy on victims, steal login credentials and interfere with browsing sessions is being sold on the underground market and might soon see wider distribution.

• New buys for EMC may come in security, big data

  EMC may be in the market for security and data analytics acquisitions as it builds out what it calls a federation of businesses among VMware, RSA Security, Pivotal and the company's traditional storage operations.

• Cloud, virtualization take front seats in EMC storage debuts

  EMC's introductions this week of its Elastic Cloud Storage Appliance (ECS) and of ViPR 2.0, the latest generation of its enterprise storage virtualization software, are two sides of the same coin.

• IoT will stump IT until clouds and big data come aboard, EMC says

  The IT systems of the past 20 years won't be able to handle the emerging Internet of Things, which will call for cloud computing, virtualization, efficient storage and big-data analysis, according to EMC.

• EMC acquires flash storage startup DSSD

  EMC has agreed to acquire DSSD, a Silicon Valley startup developing technology for pooling server-based flash for high-performance data access.

• Run your own Cloud storage for less, EMC says

  EMC is taking on Amazon's Cloud storage service with a private cloud platform it says will cost less to use.

• EMC heads back to the high-stakes software table

  EMC's big bet on software is likely to get even bigger at this week's EMC World conference in Las Vegas.

• EMC's Project Liberty could free storage software from hardware

  EMC will give users a peek at its progress toward software-defined storage next week at EMC World in Las Vegas, demonstrating a virtualized VNX array developed under a program called Project Liberty.

• External disk storage market recovers from slump

  The market for external disk storage systems has recovered from a slump, with factory revenues up 2.4 percent to US$6.9 billion in the fourth quarter of 2013, according to an IDC study.