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Quantum CEO Jon Gacek

Tape is sexy again - so why can't Quantum stop drowning?

When the bathplug pops out you'd best get hold of the baby
Comment Bubble 10
Singapore DSI's A-Drive

Singapore gov think tank plots SSD takedown

1TB hybrid uses less power than SSD, could work in Ultrabooks and tablets
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Tokyo court says Micron can wed Elpida, birth world No.2 chipmaker

Mem warrior wants into bed of penniless DRAMurai princess

Opinion

Quantum CEO Jon Gacek

Tape is sexy again - so why can't Quantum stop drowning?

Quantum's share price is dropping, dropping and dropping, despite positive product announcements and a general swing in opinion about tape storage products. So what lies behind its loss of 62 per cent of share value and market capitalisation in nine months?

Avere to tart up FTX with cloud storage gateway, mutterings foretell

Avere is working on a strategy to front-end cloud object storage products with FTX, its filer-accelerating NVRAM, flash and disk tiered system technology, say storage insiders.
Violin Memory 3200 Memory Array
Comment Bubble 17

HP's 'strained' relations with Violin: Vulture-on-the-windowsill account

Exclusive It has only been a few days since HP decided to curtail its reselling agreement with Violin Memory to concentrate on its own 3PAR product. Big-mouthed bankers also had plenty to say on the move as it pertained to a rumoured IPO by Violin.

News

Violin Memory 3200 Memory Array

HP's 'strained' relations with Violin: Vulture-on-the-windowsill account

Exclusive Our sources don't cry over spilt beans
Comment Bubble 17

Quantum blames LTO-6 switch-hit for crappy tape sales

But revenues on the mend as firm does well on disk-based dedupe, cuts spending

Rackspace stream from the Clouds to you 'will out-flow the Amazon'

Behold our uncapped data torrents, Bezos, and despair
Acronis TAM CIrcles

Acronis reveals plan to bust out of backup biz, thrust growth sideways

Plenty of room in enterprise sync 'n' share, right?
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Sky staffer plundered database to benefit naughty false firms

Keep your enemies close, your DBAs closer still
Comment Bubble 22

Imation cutting 20 per cent of workforce amid losses

Imation is slashing one fifth of its workforce as part of a cost cutting programme and exploring "strategic options" for its consumer electronics biz.

EMC flat-lining as economy continues to circle drain

EMC has scraped year-on-year revenue and profit hikes for its third 2012 quarter but reported ever-so-slightly lower numbers than the second quarter, a pattern not seen in the past two years.
DataCore CEO George Teixeira and chairman Ziya Aral

Can a 'one-trick' software firm survive in era of converged engorgement?

Why is DataCore the only dedicated software SAN virtualisation appliance vendor left standing? The answer lies in a skewed revenue geographic model, staff majority ownership of the company and a fair amount of luck.

Spotlight

Quantum CEO Jon Gacek
When the bathplug pops out you'd best get hold of the baby
'Talk to the clouds, man, they'll answer you'
Violin Memory 3200 Memory Array
Exclusive Our sources don't cry over spilt beans
Tucci hoping to go down in history as 'Crazy Joe'?
Blocks and Files Storage line-up needs more than 3PAR and StoreOnce arrays
US TSA
Oi, who's uploading all the source code?
Interview Chris Mellor chats with Exagrid CEO Bill Andrews
Actian Vectorwise TPC-H
Comment Code crammed into nimble x86 processor caches