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The news here in Silicon Valley this morning is that HP is planning to overhaul its Enterprise Services Division by laying off 9000 employees and developing a business in automated XSP/cloud data center services. When HP announced its almost $14Billion EDS acquisition back in 2008, Nicholas Carr and others wrote about how HP needed an IT outsourcing services business to keep up with IBM .   Others, such as Om Malik, suggested the move was designed to bring HP into the XSP/cloud computing age .  Both camps were probably correct.

“What will it take to make you scream?” asks Milo, the bad guy in The Last Boyscout. “Play some rap music,” responds Bruce Willis in the lead role of private investigator Joseph Hallenbeck.

Happy day for EMC unified customers.   A whole bunch of new integration, additional cost savings – all for existing and new EMC customers.   Oh, and it’s all free Here’s the PR , but in usual fashion, I tend to like the nerd version. Read on for more! So – without further ado, what’s new and GA?

megan fox 2010 2 girls 1 cup 2010 Just as George McFly became a real man when he embraced his density, so shall we all. This week, two big announcements were made about technologies that will/promise to dramatically increase the storage capacities of magnetic media

The economy seems to be picking up a bit, especially for us IT vendors.

 One of the most interesting parts of today’s VCE announcement is the Vblock – pre-integrated infrastructure for virtualization at scale.   Today, I thought I’d go behind the scenes, and interview one of the primary architects behind the Vblock – Jim Dowson (EMC Distinguished Engineer & CTO, Global Services).

We had an interesting power outage day yesterday and out of it spawned many thoughts but one struck me as perhaps more interesting than the others. Disaster Recovery is a dying concept. Maybe that sounds really lame, and maybe it is, but let’s look at it like a story. In the beginning there was a server