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The 10 most powerful companies: EMC – So much more than storage, 12/22/06
Can EMC extend its storage dominance into the right new areas of IT? Competitors have awakened from their technical slumber, and upstarts are nipping at its core market, itself a victim of Moore’s Law. EMC has to sell 30% more storage each year to grow 10% in revenue, as the cost per bit drops 13% to 15% a year, compounded.
Six industry-defining power struggles, 12/22/06
For every move one vendor makes in a hot technology area, others will make countermoves. For example, after ignoring the market for years, data-storage vendors EMC, HP, IBM and Network Appliance are eyeing small and midsize businesses (SMB) with new respect. NetAppliance even formed a division, called StoreVault, to pursue SMB customers.
Hitachi to unveil ultra high-end storage array, 12/22/06
Hitachi Data Systems is expected to announce a new storage array in early 2007 that has double the capacity and speed of its existing TagmaStore Universal Storage Platform arrays.
Fujitsu targets SMBs with SAN starter kit, 12/20/06
Fujitsu Siemens has gone all Fisher Price with the launch of “My very first SAN” – a complete storage-area network aimed at small business.
Seagate buys backup services company, 12/21/06
Hard drive maker Seagate will buy EVault for $185 million in an acquisition designed to bolster Seagate’s managed services business, the company said on Thursday.
