EMC takes on SME market
Storage giant, EMC, has rolled out storage products, hoping to win over an entirely different type of customer: small to medium enterprises (SME), reports Bloomberg BusinessWeek.
EMC introduced a storage machine called the VNXe that starts at under $10 000 and comes with an interface the company touts as “so intuitive that even non-technical users can quickly learn how to operate it”.
"We're really attacking the low end of the market, which we've never really done before," says EMC's chief marketing officer, Jeremy Burton. "We think that's a huge opportunity for us."
Symantec looks to Chinese hardware
Symantec is taking on NetApp and EMC with a scale-out network-attached storage cluster using Chinese hardware, states The Register.
The FileStore N8300 uses a clustered file system from Symantec's Veritas Storage Foundation product, and integrates with Symantec Enterprise Vault, NetBackup and AntiVirus security. The aim is to provide a storage resource to hold, secure and protect unstructured data.
The FileStore N8300 is based on Huawei's OceanSpace N8300 block and NAS access product.
Box.net leverages business collaboration
Cloud storage provider Box.net has released the latest version of its Box.net service to five million customers, says Network World.
The updated version of the storage service has a new back-end architecture that can scale up as more users join and yet be more responsive in updating files across collaborators, according to Box.net CEO Aaron Levie.
The service adds a comment capability to allow discussions within the Box.net browser window so people can collaborate on projects, not just share documents. In the future, such comments may be integrated with other messaging technologies like Twitter and instant messaging.
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