Even High-Riding EMC Facing Layoffs

Even High-Riding EMC Facing Layoffs

02/06/2012 07:04 AM

Even High-Riding EMC Facing Layoffs

EMC, the world's largest seller of enterprise data storage hardware and software, says it will trim about 2,400 jobs or about 6 percent of its staff over the next 12 to 15 months. - EMC, the world's largest seller of enterprise data storage hardware and software, said Jan. 7 that it will trim about 2,400 jobs or about 6 percent of its staff over the next 12 to 15 months in light of the global recession. In filing its preliminary quarterly financial report to the SEC, EMC... Read More (New Window) >>

02/06/2012 07:04 AM

RSA Lays Off Security, Sales Staff

Layoffs are part of an ongoing restructuring across EMC caused by acquisitions that officials estimated in 2006 might ultimately claim 1,250 jobs. Read More (New Window) >>

02/06/2012 07:04 AM

EMC lays out product roadmap, warns of disk shortages

EMC CEO Joe Tucci today offered a high-level overview of the company's product roadmap, which includes a refresh of its VMAX Symmetrix array, its VNXe hybrid array, and the general availability of its embedded flash storage product for servers. EMC subsidiary VMware will also detail new functions in all of its major product families, including the vSphere private cloud infrastructure suite and the vFabric application cloud platform. Read More (New Window) >>

02/06/2012 07:04 AM

Layoffs at eMusic...

It could be another difficult year for eMusic. Over the weekend, we heard rumblings of layoffs, and just this morning, the company confirmed a dump-off of 9 employees. Read More (New Window) >>

02/06/2012 07:04 AM

Canada : Fewer security layoffs at Pearson, company says

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02/06/2012 07:04 AM

Using Phone While Riding

new legislation . Hepleaded guilty to riding whilst using a hand-held device, whichresulted in a $500 fine being levied by Senior Magistrate Archie Warner. The evidence read out to the Magistrate ... Read More (New Window) >>

02/06/2012 07:04 AM

Canada : EMC hands out pink slips to non-union employees

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02/06/2012 07:04 AM

Canada : Mass EMC protest scheduled for Jan. 21

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02/06/2012 07:04 AM

Canada : Security layoffs at Pearson airport spark worries of longer lines

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02/06/2012 07:04 AM

Microsoft marketing layoffs said to begin February 1

Reports that hundreds of layoffs could be coming to Microsoft’s marketing organization surfaced in mid-January. I’ve heard that the brunt of the cuts could hit the Central Marketing Group (CMG), headed by Corporate Vice President Chris Capossela, but that marketing departments in some product groups — including Server and Tools and Windows Phone — also could be affected. Read More (New Window) >>

02/06/2012 07:04 AM

Canada : Hundreds join MPs for EMC rally and BBQ

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02/06/2012 07:04 AM

Tucci to hang around another year as EMC earnings soar

Record-breaking dosh, but info intelligence not so clever EMC recorded record revenues and profits for the full year and final quarter of 2011, although Information Intelligence results didn't look so clever.… Read More (New Window) >>

02/06/2012 07:04 AM

Flash drive meltdown fingered in Swedish IT blackout

Tieto's EMC VNX5700 array sparked 5-day disarray - new claim Tieto's five-day outage disaster started with multiple failures of its EMC VNX5700 array's FAST Cache, according to a Finnish source close to the matter.… Read More (New Window) >>

02/06/2012 07:04 AM

Atlanta Bankruptcy Firm Says Those in North Georgia Facing Foreclosure in February Still Have Options

Over 11,000 homes are facing foreclosure in North Georgia in February. The Atlanta bankruptcy lawyers at Clark &Washington P.C. say there is still time, and they are offering help to those facing foreclosure. Read More (New Window) >>

02/06/2012 07:04 AM

Canada : Liberal leader Bob Rae joins locked out EMC workers

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02/06/2012 07:04 AM

Beyond oil a gloomier 2012 economy seen in coal, freight

By Henning Gloystein LONDON (Reuters) - Oil prices may still be riding high but for a more accurate picture of the state of the global economy in 2012, look at recent developments in the non-oil ... Read More (New Window) >>

02/06/2012 07:04 AM

EMC crashes the server flash party

Lightning strike with thunder to follow The perfect server flash storm hitting storage arrays has generated EMC's well-signalled Lightning strike; VFCache has arrived, extending FAST technology from the array to the server. Project Thunder is following close behind, promising an EMC server-networked flash array.… Read More (New Window) >>

02/06/2012 07:04 AM

EMC moves into LSI WarpDrive

Mister Sulu, stand by to make your manoeuvres ... LSI WarpDrive solid state drives will be used by EMC in its Project Lightning server flash product.… Read More (New Window) >>

02/06/2012 07:04 AM

Titsup EMC VNX kit unleashes 5 days of chaos in Sweden

Crashed Tieto system took down bank, pharmacy, schools' website Tieto, a prominent Swedish IT service supplier, had an EMC Array go titsup on 25 November, causing five days of chaos at the Motor Vehicle Inspectorate, the Sollentuna and Nacka municipalities, the City of Stockholm's schools' website and intranet, the National Board of Health and other prominent sites.… Read More (New Window) >>

02/06/2012 07:04 AM

A much better story at WH Smith

By the end of August 2003, WH Smith's profits had been falling for at least five years and it was regularly lumped together with Woolworths in terms of high street stalwarts facing eventual ... Read More (New Window) >>