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Hewlett-Packard announced on Wednesday in the US that it intends to buy storage specialist LeftHand Networks for US$360 million.
Japanese technology giant Fujitsu has unveiled plans to launch enterprise-grade storage as a service to its Australian customers, although it will cut down the number of hardware vendors it focuses on.
PC buyers can look forward to DVDs with up to 10 times the storage they now have when Hewlett-Packard rolls out machines supporting next-generation DVD technology next year.
Giant vendor Hewlett-Packard this week revealed it was consolidating its 85 global datacentres down to just six in a bid to simplify its internal IT infrastructure and rein in costs.
Auckland-based Mainfreight will undertake three major IT projects, including the building of a "greenfield" datacentre and the migration of SQL Server 2000 to SQL Server 2005, in the first half of the year.
Auckland-based DB Breweries has spent NZ$1 million on datacentre equipment -- including servers and storage solutions -- from Hewlett-Packard to support its SAP rollout which began last September.
Sun Microsystems has launched a new business unit to sell its Sparc processors, a return to an idea it had dropped years ago.
At the Gartner Symposium/ITxpo in Orlando, Florida, Hewlett-Packard CEO Mark Hurd tells Gartner analysts Leslie Fiering and Carl Claunch that HP plans to stay focused on its core technology and "double down" on its server, storage and management software businesses.
Hewlett-Packard on Monday announced a handful of storage products, including a new Fibre Channel drive that's meant for storage area networks.
Disk storage systems revenue slipped slightly in the third quarter amid soft demand, but there's hope in sight, according to a report from research firm IDC.
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