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EMC raises offer for Data Domain to $2.1B
ARTICLE - Looking to outbid rival NetApp, EMC Corp. boosts its acquisition offer for data deduplication vendor Data Domain to $2.1 billion or $30 per share. New offer expires July 17.
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BlueArc's Mercury NAS disk array aims at the enterprise
ARTICLE - With NetApp distracted by Data Domain and late delivering Ontap with clustered NAS capabilities, BlueArc targets the enterprise NAS market with Mercury 50, Mercury 100 NAS systems.
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Coraid EtherDrive teaches Ohio school about AoE storage
ARTICLE - To cope with the storage demands of a growing school district, the City of North Canton, Ohio, bought a Coraid EtherDrive system built on the ATA over Ethernet (AoE) protocol.
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NexentaStor reaches out to the enterprise
ARTICLE - Claiming 300 customers, Nexenta is looking to appeal to more traditional enterprise data centers with the addition of new HA features for Sun's open-storage ZFS in NexentaStor 2.0.
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