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HP Gets a Top-Flight Storage Exec in EMC’s Donatelli

We don't often report on personnel moves here at The Station, but Hewlett-Packard's April 29 announcement that it has recruited EMC Storage Division President...

Ballmer’s Response to Oracle-Sun Deal Just a Smoke Screen

Speaking last week to the American Chamber of Commerce in Cairo, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer was asked his take on last week's announcement that...

IBM-Sun Bottom Line: McNealy Had Oracle on Deck

The Station has been asked a few times from readers about what really went on behind the scenes during the IBM-Sun Microsystems acquisition talks...

Possible M&As in the Wake of Oracle-Sun Deal

eWEEK is fond of producing slide shows -- you know, those click-through picture and/or art-based features that liven up a "list" story. Admittedly, sometimes...

Excellent Inside-the-Cloud Information at SD Forum Event

SANTA CLARA, Calif.—The Station just returned from spending the middle part of a sunny Silicon Valley Friday at an SD Forum conference on "Shaping...

Cisco’s Chambers in ‘Non-Denial Denial’ About Acquiring Sun

Bloomberg News reported April 15 that Cisco Systems CEO John Chambers has said his company "probably already would have moved" on buying Sun Microsystems...

A Tale of Two Media-Relations Strategies

You may or may not have noticed here at The Station yesterday, but we posted what we thought was a benign item explaining that...

EMC Planning Major Announcement April 14

Don't let anybody tell you that computing power -- meaning processors supplied by Intel, AMD, LSI Logic, IBM, Sun Microsystems and others -- isn't...

LSI Gets Good Report Card from HDD Analyst

A research note from analyst Hans Mosesmann of Raymond James Equity Research regarding the volatile hard drive market crossed The Station's desk today. Some...

Sun Finally Speaks, but New Information Not Forthcoming

You know in the old movies, when the reporters are all sitting around in the press room, playing cards and smoking cigarettes, waiting for...