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EMC is extending its Avamar backup software to all parts of an enterprise's infrastructure with clients for PC and Mac desktops and laptops.

The software for automated backup and recovery, which EMC acquired by buying Avamar in 2006, already backs up the contents of corporate servers and uses deduplication to more efficiently store it. Avamar 5.0, available immediately, lets enterprises add the same backup capability to individual client systems and does not require a per-client license.

EMC is working with Intel on a more energy-efficient version of EMC's Atmos cloud storage system that should be available in the second half of next year, the companies said Thursday.

Pat Gelsinger, a top executive who has been with Intel for 30 years, is leaving the company for EMC, an EMC spokeswoman said Monday.

Storage vendor EMC will hire Gelsinger as president and chief operating officer for the company's information infrastructure product portfolio, the spokeswoman said, asking not to be named. Gelsinger, currently co-manager of Intel's core digital enterprise group, has long been a key executive for Intel. He has also held the positions of chief technology officer and research head at Intel.

Cisco and EMC are said to be forming a joint venture company to develop an integrated datacenter platform for computing, networking, and storage.

According to several sources and a post in The Register, the joint venture will be a separate company funded by both Cisco and EMC. The name of the company could not be learned by press time, but sources say Cisco and EMC are actively recruiting sales personnel for it.