EMC has announced a suite of enhancements to the EMC Atmos Cloud platform for cloud storage environments, including new Atmos Cloud Accelerators that make it easier to move data in and out of Atmos-powered cloud storage. Each Atmos cloud provides hundreds of thousands of subscribers access to data powered by over 40 global service providers

EMC has announced specifications for its new VMAX Family, consisting of the VMAX 10K, VMAX 20K and the newest VMAX 40K. The VMAX Family is built on EMC’s Virtual Matrix Architecture which provides the enterprise information infrastructure for deploying hybrid clouds. This architecture is complemented by new software capabilities that streamline operations and extend VMAX

EMC is now offering enhanced VNX storage solutions including the new VNXe 3150, featuring 50% more performance and capacity per rack unit than previous VNX enterprise storage systems. EMC has also added the new EMC Storage Analytics Suite, based on the VMware vCenter Operations Management Suite. VNX unified storage systems will be integrated with VMware

EMC has announced enhancements to its VPLEX virtual storage and operating environment, including support for EMC RecoverPoint data protection and EMC AccessAnywhere’s cache coherency technology for third-site disaster recovery. VPLEX now integrates with VMware vSphere Storage APIs for Storage Awareness (VASA) and VMware vSphere Storage APIs for Array Integration (VAAI).

At EMC World 2012, EMC announced new Data Domain and Avamar systems and software for high-performance, scalable backup appliances that tightly integrate with each other, with backup software, and into heterogeneous enterprise application ecosystems. The arrival of data deduplication technology enabled today’s high-performance purpose-built backup appliances to address legacy issues of backup window times and

EMC has revealed plans for the next generation of EMC Isilon OneFS scale-out NAS operating system, code-named "Mavericks," which will enable enterprises to manage rapidly growing unstructured data more effectively. This upcoming version of OneFS will incorporate new features for data protection, security, system performance and interoperability. Mavericks emphasizes the Isilon strategy of enterprise-wide interoperability

EMC has announced the activation of the Greenplum Analytics Workbench, a 1,000-node cluster with 24 petabytes of physical storage that will act as a lab environment for accelerating development of Apache Hadoop. EMC Greenplum will use the Analytics Workbench to test the limits of scale-out infrastructure technology, refine models for applying Big Data analytics, and

EMC has announced new solutions for Life Sciences and Engineering, Plants and Facilities Management companies via EMC OnDemand and the next version of EMC Documentum D2 for configuring Documentum interfaces. The company also announced reaching the milestone of 45 approved partner solutions during the first full year of its EMC Certified Solution Program. The certifications

Seagate Technology and LaCie have announced an exclusive agreement for Seagate to acquire a controlling interest in LaCie, pending regulatory approval. The offer values LaCie at approximately $186 million, including acquired net cash of approximately $65 million as of March 31, 2012. This represents a premium of 29% to LaCie’s average closing stock price over