Today EMC announced its acquisition of scale-out NAS vendor Isilon Systems for $2.25 billion. According to EMC's announcement, the company will now be able to offer its customers a "complete storage infrastructure solution for managing 'Big Data' in private or public cloud environments." Storage companies are hot acquisition targets right now. HP recently won a bidding war with Dell for 3Par. Big companies are placing big bets on cloud storage. Is your organization using using cloud storage? Do you plan to?

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