Storage

Hitachi GST CEO claims hard drive future hangs in Cloud

In March, Western Digital agreed to buy Hitachi Global Storage Technologies> (HGST), the disk drive subsidiary of Hitachi Ltd., in a stock and cash transaction valued at $US4.3 billion. HGST CEO Steve Milligan will join WD as president at the closing of the deal, expected in the fourth quarter.

By Lucas Mearian | 02 September, 2011 07:16

Tags: hitachi, IBM, iSuppli, IT industry, Seagate Technology, storage, Storage Hardware, western digital

Q&A: Why Apple's co-founder is hot on solid state storage

Earlier this year, Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak accepted the position of chief scientist at start-up solid state drive company Fusion-io. It's the first time since 1972, when he worked in Hewlett-Packard Co's calculator division, that he's held a technologist's position for a company that wasn't his own.

By Lucas Mearian | 14 October, 2009 03:59

Tags: Apple, Fusion-io, solid-state drives, Steve Wozniak

Quantum CEO on EMC's buyout of Data Domain

Now that EMC has purchased deduplication technology leader Data Domain, its reseller agreements with the likes of FalconStor Software Inc. and Quantum Corp. for the same type of single-instancing technology could be in jeopardy. Quantum resells both its tape libraries and dedupe software through EMC, sales that amount to less than 10% of its revenue.

By Lucas Mearian | 31 July, 2009 09:05

Tags: data domain, EMC, quantum

Q&A: Praveen Asthana, Dell's director of enterprise storage

Dell has continued to move its storage product line and services upstream, adding more sophisticated software into its arrays, which have traditionally been targeted at small to midsize businesses. At the same time, the company says it will increase its offerings around cloud-based computing, both in on-site and off-site backup and disaster recovery.

By Lucas Mearian | 17 October, 2008 10:37

Tags: cloud computing, dell

Affordable SSDs in the offing?

September is usually too early to draw year-end conclusions, but I'll go out on a limb to say that 2008 will be remembered as a key year for SSDs (solid-state drives) -- not so much for sales figures, which won't likely reflect the hype surrounding flash SSDs this year, but for the technology itself, which remains one of the most controversial to hit storage in recent times.

By Mario Apicella | 22 September, 2008 11:10

Tags: solid state drives

Symantec chief talks acquisitions, Cisco's snub

Symantec chairman and CEO John Thompson last week delivered a keynote speech to thousands of security professionals at the RSA Conference 2008 in the US. Ellen Messmer caught up with Thompson at the RSA event, where he expanded on a range of topics including vendor alliances, Symantec's competition and the importance of data-loss prevention technology.