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May be, I am not so impressed with EMC, after all

Monday, December 8th, 2008

I probably have to take back my last blog post where I talked about why I am impressed with EMC on their Decho spin off which they had announced on the 16th November. The primary reason I thought that’s a very good move from EMC is that running Decho, and hence the online backup business Mozy, as a separate independent subsidiary with its own organization would create focus and also its own nimble culture to respond aggressively to the different business requirements of the SMB market segment. This would have been difficult to do internally by EMC itself as … Read the rest

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Why we are impressed with EMC

Tuesday, November 18th, 2008

I should say I am seriously impressed with EMC. I am talking about their announcement of a new subsidiary called Decho, which combines the two acquisitions they had made in the last one year: the online backup services startup, Mozy, and the Personal Information Management startup, Pi Corp. When EMC acquired Mozy I had thought EMC would use Mozy’s technology to come up with some cloud storage initiative for the enterprise and the mid-market segment. I also felt that would take away Mozy’s focus on consumer and small and medium business segment. Of course, it was probably wishful thinking … Read the rest

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