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• Wall Street Beat: Positive earnings news lifts tech shares

  Strong earnings news from Internet and IT vendors gave a boost to tech stocks Friday, with Microsoft shares touching a six-year high.

• EMC Bets Big on Flash Storage

  The vendor gets aggressive about enterprise flash arrays, but faces challenges in the data center

• Former EMC CIO is the new VMWare GM for Asia Pacific and Japan

  Sanjay Mirchandani will start role next month, working with incumbent Andrew Dutton for a leadership transition until the yearend.

• EMC optimizes VNX hybrid array for flash

  EMC's VNX hybrid storage line is now built for flash first, with revamped software that can take full advantage of multicore processors, producing what the company calls a major boost in performance.

• In Pictures: Top tech hoarders - 15 companies with huge cash piles

  Apple, Microsoft, Google and Cisco are flush with cash, and so are many other tech companies

• Big answers trump Big Data

  The CTO for Obama's re-election campaign, Harper Reed, explains why he is no fan of the 'Big Data' buzzword.

• Magic skill set

  Rhe big data trend is ushering in a new class of business technology professional -- the data scientist.

• Big data has potential but requires care

  The proliferation of large-scale data sets is just beginning to change business and science around the world, but enterprises need to prepare in order to gain the most advantage from their information, panelists said at a Silicon Valley event this week.

• EMC appoints NZ country manager

  EMC has announced the appointment of Phill Patton as the company's new New Zealand country manager, effective from early December.
  “This is an important appointment for EMC,” says David Webster, president EMC, South East Asia, Australia and New Zealand. “New Zealand is a growth market for us and we will continue to invest in our Auckland and Wellington operations in the future. With more than 20 years’ experience in IT, Phill brings a wealth of local knowledge to the role and we look forward to him growing what is already a successful New Zealand business,” adds Webster.

• World’s information more than doubling every two years – IDC

  An IDC study sponsored by EMC has shown that the world’s information is more than doubling every two years, with 1.8 zettabytes to be created and replicated this year.
  According to the study, titled “Digital Universe”, massive server, data management and file growth are not keeping pace with staffing. IDC predicts that over the next decade, IT departments will experience ten times the number of servers (both virtual and physical) and 50 times the amount of information to be managed but only 1.5 times the number of IT professionals available to manage it all.

• EMC's Tucci sees hybrid cloud becoming de facto standard

  LAS VEGAS -- As far as EMC CEO Joe Tucci is concerned, the future of his company is the hybrid cloud and big data analytics.

• Caution urged in wake of RSA security breach

  The relatively scant information released by EMC's RSA security group on Thursday in connection with the theft of SecurID authentication technology code is fueling considerable speculation about the nature of the breach and its impact on enterprises.

• Dell in talks to buy storage vendor Compellent

  Dell said Thursday it is in advanced talks with storage vendor Compellent Technologies regarding a merger that would call for Dell to pay US$27.50 per share, or roughly $876 million, for the company.

• EMC secures Defense Force deal

  EMC New Zealand has secured a multi-million dollar extension of its deal with the Defence Force, adding backup, recovery and archiving.
  The additional deal covers hardware, software and professional services. EMC says it will extend the Defence Force's existing storage capacity and enhance the backup environment by installing the EMC Networker management suite. EMC's Data Domain deduplication platform will be also be used.

• David Webster takes on Southeast Asia for EMC

  David Webster will assume the top role for EMC South East Asia (SEA) while continuing to lead the EMC business in ANZ.
  In this extended role Webster, who will move on from his current role as ANZ president, will drive growth and operational performance across both the ANZ and SEA regions.