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Tiernan Ray, Reporter, Barron's, Tech Trader Daily in News on August 4, 2011 at 4:15 pm PT
Enterprise data storage equipment vendor Fusion-io this afternoon reported fiscal Q4 revenue and earnings per share ahead of expectations and offered a forecast for 40% revenue growth this year.
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Ben Worthen, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on April 25, 2011 at 11:02 am PT
Michael Dell doesn’t want to talk about personal computers anymore. As Dell Inc.’s chief executive works to turn around the once high-flying PC maker, he has bet on diversifying away from the company’s best-known product.
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Cari Tuna, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on March 8, 2011 at 12:20 pm PT
As more telecommunications carriers launch rivals to Amazon.com’s popular computing-services business, a Silicon Valley start-up is aiming to help them beat the Web giant’s prices by tackling one layer of the computing “stack”—data-storage software.
Arik Hesseldahl in Enterprise on January 12, 2011 at 8:00 am PT
Frank Slootman, who in 2009 sold Data Domain to EMC for $2.4 billion joins Greylock to “add firepower” to its enterprise team.
Arik Hesseldahl in Enterprise on December 13, 2010 at 5:21 am PT
Three months after losing a bidding war with Hewlett-Packard over 3Par, Dell acquires another storage company.
Arik Hesseldahl in Enterprise on December 7, 2010 at 7:59 am PT
Keep a close eye on Fusion-io. Its flash-memory based storage technology is quietly winning lots of business in data centers around the world. I say quietly, because very often the companies using it don’t like to broadcast that fact to the world. One who is willing is Credit Suisse, though it won’t say much.
John Paczkowski in News on November 15, 2010 at 7:25 am PT
Another acquisition for EMC. The data storage technology supplier, which over the past five years has spent some $7 billion buying other companies, is reaching for its wallet once again. This morning, EMC announced plans to purchase Isilon Systems. Price: $33.85 a share in cash, or roughly $2.25 billion.
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Benjamin Pimentel, Reporter, MarketWatch in News on September 20, 2010 at 2:10 pm PT
The latest buying spree in technology rolled on Monday, with Big Blue’s $1.7 billion takeover deal with Netezza Corp., which comes on the heels of last month’s high-intensity bidding war over 3Par Inc.
The Netezza deal underscored a key trend: Small companies with the valued know-how for storing and quickly analyzing data are finding themselves drawing attention from the biggest names in technology.
Kara Swisher in News on September 8, 2010 at 12:00 pm PT
Once close partners, Oracle and Hewlett-Packard are now competing head-on in the server and data-storage-systems business.
That’s the real reality for HP–and not the delicious “Real Housewives of Silicon Valley” reality show the legal battle over exec Mark Hurd has turned into. And no amount of desperate public wrangling is going to change that.
