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EMC wins Round 1 vs. Donatelli, HP

A Massachusetts court has found in EMC Corp.'s favor after the vendor took its former storage division president David Donatelli to court over a non-compete clause in his contract the storage giant argues should prevent him from taking a new position at rival Hewlett-Packard Co. (HP).

Tandberg files for bankruptcy

Tandberg Data, the Norwegian company that sells tape libraries and removable disk drives, filed for bankruptcy in Norway and has been taken over by one of its creditors. Day-to-day operations continue for Tandberg’s U.S. subsidiary, Tandberg Data Corp., and its other subsidiaries as the parent...

NetApp to pay $128 million to settle GSA probe

In an SEC filing Monday, NetApp disclosed it has paid $128 million to the federal government to settle a Department of Justice probe into its contracting activity with the General Services Administration (GSA)....

Double-Take repackages products after emBoot acquisition

Double-Take is consolidating its server-based replication, TimeData CDP, GeoGluster software for Microsoft stretched clusters, LiveWire bare-metal restor, and emBoot's netboot iSCSI boot-from-SAN and sanFly iSCSI target products into four titles:

WD dives in to SSDs

Drive maker Western Digital is looking to hop on to the solid-state drive bandwagon by paying $65 million for a company that has the technology.

WD today completed a cash acquisition of SiliconSystems, Inc. of Aliso Viejo, Calif., a supplier of solid-state drives for the embedded...

Fujitsu reorganizes in North America

Three Fujitsu entities are consolidating into a new company called Fujitsu America, the better to align sales according to customer segment rather than specific products.

Fujitsu Consulting, Fujitsu Computer Systems and Fujitsu Transaction Solutions, a retail-equipment business unit,...

Analysts see EMC/Dell relationship fading

Despite both companies' protestations to the contrary last year, analysts on Wall Street and in the storage industry still see the coziness between the two companies trending down in the wake of Dell's PS6000 Series launch today. As part of its announcement today, Dell noted that...

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Dell/EqualLogic prepares SSD IP SAN

Dell is about to add solid state drive (SSD) support to its EqualLogic iSCSI SANs in a new PS6000 model. As first reported on ChannelWeb last Friday, the PS6000 will also have four Ethernet ports, one more than EqualLogic PS5000 arrays have....