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posted on 21 February 2008 22:32

EMC is to set up a Cloud Infrastructure and Services division headed by ex-Microsoft exec Paul Maritz. He becomes the division's president and general manager and reports direct to Joe Tucci, EMC's CEO, president and chairman.

The CIS division will be responsible for the EMC Fortress SaaS infrastructure, the Mozy online backup service and other upcoming EMC cloud infrastructure systems and software offerings under development.

Maritz comes to EMC courtesy of an acquisition of Pi Corporation, a company which he founded and ran to develop software and online services to enable individuals to control how they find, access, share and protect their increasing volumes of digital information. Pi is in the process of beta testing its first products. That company will be run as an independent EMC subsidiary and Maritz will run it.

Joe Tucci said, "The proliferation of information in the hands of consumers, businesses and organizations of all sizes has brought about massive digital information growth on a scale never imagined. As the leading provider of information infrastructure, we are positioned to set a new standard for organizing, accessing and deriving value from this information. Pi's technology is very complementary to our emerging cloud infrastructure strategy. Paul Maritz and his team will provide invaluable vision and leadership as we position EMC at the leading edge of cloud computing and personal information management."

Maritz said, "By uniting the Pi team with a global technology leader like EMC, we'll be ideally positioned to realize our vision of allowing consumers and corporate information workers to create, repurpose, store, share and access personal information in novel ways, taking advantage of the ubiquity of computing power and a new interconnected world."

Yes, yes, very important no doubt, but I'm afraid the world is much more interested in EMC's coming cloud products, particularly Hulk and Maui.