EMC plans package to help people move to the cloud

EMC Corp will start selling a package of storage, services, and VMware software to help customers set up cloud networks in their corporate data centres and easily shift them to the internet.

Called EMC Enterprise Hybrid Cloud Solution, the products will let applications be moved from private servers to internet-based clouds from EMC and VMware partners, as well as Microsoft’s Azure and Amazon Web Services, said Jeremy Burton, EMC’s president of products and marketing.

As part of a push to boost its cloud-computing business, the company said it acquired Maginatics, whose file system helps locate information stored in the cloud, and Spanning Cloud Apps to provide data back-up and recovery.