Storage

Datto Drive, a new file sync and sharing service, will seek to disrupt Box and Dropbox in the small business market and route 1 million sales leads to MSPs.

EY (formerly Ernst & Young) is exploring additional ways to work with the EMC Federation of companies -- including Pivotal, RSA, VCE, Virtustream & VMware.

EY, leveraging EMC solutions, will accelerate its midmarket managed services push. Plus, watch for more synergies with EMC Federation companies.

Chief Revenue Officer Brooks Borcherding's strategy to drive growth for Datto and the data protection company's MSPs.

Dell's $67 billion buyout of EMC and VMware will proceed and close on schedule -- only an "Act of God" can stop it, an EMC board member said.

Artisan Infrastructure gains key technology from a Long Island startup, and launches Neverfail HybriStor to assist channel partners with data protection.

Datto, the MSP-centric data protection company, spent recent years diversifying its board & executive team. Along the way, midmarket MSP expertise arrived.

How can you manage redundant, obsolete or trivial (ROT) data? Move over, Enterprise Content Management (ECM). Cognitive Computing is the new answer.