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EMC bigwig jumps overboard and gets gobbled up by Barracuda

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EMC has lost its backup and recovery systems executive head after BJ Jenkins jumped ship for a role heading up Barracuda Networks.Jenkins became the boss of EMC's BRS business in January this year, replacing Frank Slootman, the ex-CEO of acquired Data Domain. Jenkins reported to Pat Gelsinger, who was then EMC's Information Infrastructure Products business president and chief operating officer (COO). But Gelsinger is now VMware CEO and his responsibilities in Information Infrastructure Products have been largely taken over by Howard Elias, the new president and COO for Information Infrastructure and Cloud Services. Elias, in turn, reports to

New standard test of Big Data bang per system buck rolls out

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The Transaction Processing Performance Council still doesn't know how to do its own abbreviation after 24 years of existence, but it does know a thing or two about getting IT hardware and software vendors together and hammering out benchmark tests and pricing metrics to help server, storage, database, and middleware buyers try to figure out what they might want to buy and what kind of value they might expect from what they buy.

The TPC was founded in 1988 following an uproar in the server racket after IBM ran its own RAMP-C COBOL benchmark test on its AS/400 and System/38 minicomputers, pitting them against a bunch of Hewlett-Packard