Loved-up 'frictionless' EMC bods slide ScaleIO into VMware kernel

EMC is going to extend its ScaleIO serverSAN product to function as a VMware kernel module to speed it up, thereby "twinning" it with VSAN in terms of VMware and ESXi integration. There is a new spirit of co-opetition and even co-operation inside the EMC federation these days after its CEO, Joe Tucci, openly admitted there had …

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Chalk another one up for EMC and another loss for NetApp

Nearly six years ago, NetApp suffering from a fit of not invented here fired the founders of ScaleIO; Boaz Palgi and Erez Webman; now they are on their way to doing great things in virtualization and storage. Oh wait, the axman was none other than Guy Churchward - can anyone spell consipiricy? Looks like Tucci scored on another soon to be brilliant acquisition.