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Report: Digital Universe Doubling Every 18 Months
EMC started off its ninth customer and partner conference with some cloud announcements and some surprising findings in its latest study on what’s happening in the storage market. Essentially, EMC is saying it’s good to be in the data business, or information lifecycle management, as it likes to style it. The study by IDC found…
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HP’s CEO: Not Ready to Call It Better
While Intel’s (NASDAQ:INTC) and Avnet’s (NYSE:AVT) CEOs have recently mentioned the word “bottom” when referring to the current economic crisis, that’s not a word that was in Hewlett-Packard (NYSE:HPQ) CEO Mark Hurd’s vocabulary during the computer giant’s second-quarter conference call with analysts this week. Instead, HP’s CEO provided a more conservative outlook on the state…
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SanDisk: Flash Memory on the Rebound
NEW YORK (Reuters) – SanDisk Corp Chief Executive Eli Harari said 2009 could turn out to be "significantly better" than anticipated at the start of the year as big cutbacks in flash memory production bring balance back to an industry stung by oversupply. Shares of SanDisk rose after Harari said prices for flash memory…
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Printers and Enterprise Servers Expected to Drag on HP Sales
All eyes are on Hewlett-Packard (NYSE:HPQ) this afternoon as the technology giant—a bellwether for other companies in the personal computer, server and printer spaces, among other technologies—announces its second-quarter earnings. And the news looks to be bleak for printing and enterprise servers and storage. As business and consumers continue to delay the purchase of new…
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Cisco Helps Utilities Green Their Energy with Smart Grid
Cisco (NASDAQ:CSCO) will partner with systems integrator channel partners, vendors and utility customers to deliver what it says will be an end-to-end, highly secure network infrastructure solution for utility companies to help their customers manage power supplies and energy consumption more efficiently. Cisco’s so called “Smart Grid” infrastructure plan looks to create a two-way communications…
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ATandT Leaps into Cloud-Based Storage
BOSTON (Reuters) – AT&T Inc, the biggest U.S. telephone company, plans to offer Web-based data storage services for corporations using "cloud computing" technologies developed by data storage equipment maker EMC Corp. The telecommunications giant will join International Business Machines Corp, Amazon.com Inc, Symantec Corp, Iron Mountain Inc and others in offering storage as a…