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EMC CEO Joe Tucci is gonna keep his eventual replacement waiting a while longer. When the company posted pretty Q4 results the other day Tucci said he won't be stepping down this year as planned. He said the board asked him to stay into 2013 and that "after much soul-searching" he agreed. "As I've said in the past, the board and I fully expect that my successor will come from within the existing, talented and experienced ranks of the EMC management team" - who reportedly all asked him to reconsider his transition plans. "I have already started to increase the responsibilities of my senior leadership team, and when the time is right, my successor will be named. Until then, we have much work to do." Ex-Intel exec Pat Gelsinger, EMC's COO, is expected to succeed him. EMC reported a record Q4, shrugging off any affects of the slowdown or the Thai floods that have cri... (more)

Amazon Goes After Enterprise Data

Amazon's cloud, which, let's face it, is still pretty much developer turf, broadened its push into the enterprise Wednesday with the introduction of AWS Storage Gateway, a beta virtual appliance nominally meant to automate enterprise data backup to S3 while creating a comfort level with the cloud among the leery. It's the first time Amazon has proposed putting its own software on the ground inside a corporate data center. And the stuff's targeted at large corporations. Amazon says some customers asked for such a solution. It also expects resellers to offer the service. It is of... (more)

HP Commits to webOS Release Schedule

Seems just the other day - actually it was two weeks ago - that we divined that HP, imagining blowing Google away, would pull out the stops to get the webOS that it bought, put in a tablet that failed in the market, dropped, then open sourced - life's funny like that - in shape to publish the code in stages. And what do you know - surprise, surprise - HP Wednesday committed to a timetable for getting the thing out in steps by September under the lenient Apache 2.0 license. See, here's the schedule: Timing Milestone/Code published January Enyo 2.0 and Enyo source code Apache L... (more)

Apple Quietly Appeals ITC’s HTC Decision

Apple has taken the International Trade Commission's month-old decision finding HTC's Android gismos infringe only one of the patents it asserted and letting it ship the products while it fixes the problem to the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC). The patent-watching Foss Patents blog says Apple quietly lodged the appeal on December 29. The blog learned from an Apple filing with the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois in a case against Motorola Mobility that the ITC's administrative law judge had sided with Apple and found HTC guilty... (more)

ICOS and Joyent Partner Up

Joyent's SmartDataCenter IaaS platform is going to be sold to Italian VARs and service providers by ICOS, an Italian value-added distributor, for private cloud infrastructure or value-added private cloud services. SmartDataCenter's local storage is supposed to reduce the TCO of cloud data centers. It's designed to manage tens of thousands of virtual machines, a k a SmartMachines, and supports a multi-tenant PaaS. ICOS means to develop its own cloud infrastructure for channel partners too so they don't have to build their own cloud data center. JoyentCloud.com delivers public clo... (more)