Stephen Luczo is the new CEO of Seagate
Storage industry giant Seagate has surprised market experts by announcing a change in the top management.
Seagate has replaced their Chief Executive Bill Watkins with Chairman Stephen Luczo.
The company also added that their chief operating officer stepped down.
Seagate has also announced that they are now [...]
Maya Entertainment to use NetApp solutions for storage
Mumbai-based Maya Entertainment has revealed that they are now going to use storage solutions provided by NetApp.
NetApp would now provide them with resources for their centralized data storage.
Jai Natarajan, EVP — Business Development, MEL spoke about this new development: “IT infrastructure is critical to delivering complex work in [...]
Toshiba sells 90,000 units of HD-A2 HD DVD players last weekend
Toshiba’s low cost HD DVD player HD-A2 was being offered at a price of USD 99 at some of the largest retailing stores in the US market last weekend.
This sale was huge as the company managed to sell as many as 90,000 units from Friday [...]
Seagate encrypted hard disks to soon ship with notebooks
Seagate Technology LLC has said that products featuring their new built-in encryption technology are expected to be launched in the retail market soon.
The company said that ASI Computer Technologies would be launching their products loaded with their hard disks which come with a chip that makes it [...]
Hewlett Packard to acquire storage software company PolyServe
US based tech giant Hewlett Packard has said in a statement that they are acquiring storage software company PolyServe.
HP said that this acquisition would give it important leverage in the enterprise-class network-attached storage (NAS) market.
The two companies have not released the details on the financial deal signed between [...]
Hitachi Data Systems planning to acquire Archivas
Hitachi Data Systems has confirmed that they are planning to acquire online storage management software vendor Archivas.
The aim is to strengthen the company’s content services business. This would help them expand their offerings for finance, health care and oil and gas industries as well as governments.
Archivas offers a product [...]
Experts: Hybrid HD drives unlikely to solve problems for the customer
The digital media industry is going through a bad time. There are two groups favoring two different high definition formats and the consumer is not ready to pick a winner.
Toshiba has developed the HD DVD format while Sony is promoting their own Blu-Ray format. Hardware [...]
Transcend is now Samsung’s largest NAND flash memory purchaser
It is a well known fact that Apple buys large amount of flash memory chips from South Korean company Samsung. Apple uses this memory in their popular iPod range of digital music and video players.
However, they are no longer the largest customer of the company when it [...]
Moser Baer to offer cheap movie VCDs and DVDs in India
Indian consumers have something to cheer about as Optical storage and devices maker Moser Baer has decided to enter into the Indian home video market.
The company has stated that they would now be launching video content on DVD and Video CD formats using its proprietary [...]
Seagate to acquire eVault
Storage industry giants Seagate have said that they are acquiring EVault Inc.
EVault Inc. is an online service providing storage services on the internet. The deal is worth around $185 million and it would be conducted in a cash transaction.
This deal is expected to help Seagate gain a major foothold in the [...]
