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Seagate Plans $180 Million R&D Center for Empty Solyndra Plant

The vacated Solyndra solar plant in Fremont, Calif., is getting a new tenant focused on the future of a more mature technology. Seagate Technology on Friday announced plans for a $180 million research and development complex, employing as many as 600 people, to work on next-generation disk drives. The Solyndra plant, highly energy efficient and powered in part with solar panels, is “as close as we could get if we were building a custom facility tailored to our needs,” said Steven Deason, Seagate’s facilities director.

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The Next Step for Computing: The Storage Fabric

The storage fabric consists of the ability to access data nearly anywhere at any time, as well as a superstructure of hardware, software and services to deliver and manage it.
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Seagate Catches Flash Madness With $40 Million Virident Investment

The hard drive maker also reports better-than-expected earnings.
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So What the Heck Is an Apple Fusion Drive Anyway?

Take a typical hard drive, add flash memory chips, and you get what? Something completely new.
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A Hangout for All Your Social-Network Photos

Katie tests two products that pull in and back up photos and videos from various social networks.
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Seagate to Miss Quarterly Sales Forecast by $500 Million

Trouble at a supplier combined with the doomsday-that-wasn’t equals a sales miss.
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Seagate to Acquire Consumer Hard Drive Maker LaCie

The deal would give Seagate access to LaCie’s retail and distribution footprint, and also control of a brand favored by Mac users.
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Gartner Slashes 2012 Global IT Spending Forecast

Research firm Gartner just knocked down its growth forecast for global tech spending by nearly 1 percent. It may not sound like much, but it amounts to slowdown worth about $100 billion.
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Global Chip Sales Down on Thailand Flooding

Chip sales were disrupted by the effects of the flooding in Thailand and by the euro zone crisis in November, the Semiconductor Industry Association reported today.
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Seven Questions for Seagate CEO Steve Luczo About the Effects of the Thailand Floods

Flooding in Thailand has killed more than 600 people, devastated the Thai economy and caused one of the most significant supply chain disruptions to the computer industry in a generation.
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Who Isn't Rambus Suing at the ITC?

Seagate Not Going Private After All