6 posts and columns on Isilon

eBay Is the Most Recent Bay Area Transplant to Seek Access to Seattle’s Talent Pool

in Commerce on January 12 at 6:00 am PT

The e-commerce giant has joined a growing list of companies willing to brave the rain in order to gain access to a deep pool of technology engineers in Seattle.
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When It Wasn't Stuffing Cars, EMC Was Doing Real Business

in Enterprise on January 19, 2011 at 6:56 pm PT

Aside from producing oddly funny onstage stunts, storage company EMC launched 41 new enterprise products at its New York event yesterday.

Greylock Adds Former Data Domain CEO As A Partner

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.

Dell to Acquire Compellent

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.

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Report: EMC Bidding to Buy Isilon

in News on October 18, 2010 at 10:40 am PT

The New York Post is hearing from a source that data-storage leader EMC is wooing Isilon, a specialist in “clustered storage,” with a $2 billion acquisition offer and that a deal should be sealed before the end of the year. The report also says that EMC-controlled VMware is talking to Novell about buying its SUSE Linux business.

What's Up With Isilon Systems?

in News on August 27, 2009 at 4:06 pm PT

Big move today in Isilon Systems: shares of the storage systems company have jumped $1.08, or 19.9 percent, to $6.49, on volume of more than 660,000 shares, or more than 4x the daily average. Today’s rise boosts the company’s three-day rally to 33 percent. So, what’s going on here? Well, here’s what I know.