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Disk Drive Market Expert Sees 2011 as Year of Rebound

According to one respected industry insider, it might take until 2011 for the consumer hard disk drive market to recover from the doldrums caused...

Digg Joins the IT Layoff Parade

San Francisco-based social networking Web site Digg.com, which has about 75 employees, announced Jan. 22 that it, too, is feeling the current economic pressures...

News Flash: Autonomy to Acquire Interwoven

Just in from Sean Brooks: "Autonomy just announced its intent to acquire Interwoven, a global leading provider of content management solutions for $775 Million. The...

Seagate Yanks Firmware Patch, Promises Replacement

Seagate Technology apparently changed its mind Jan. 21 on a firmware fix for its Barracuda 7200.11 hard drive that The Station announced here last...

Network Automation Coming Out with Major Upgrade

UPDATED: Once again, we're reminded that data center automation is a key trend for 2009. Los Angeles-based Network Automation, a small but significant maker...

ProStor Names Former HPer Frank Harbist as New CEO

ProStor Systems named a new president/CEO Jan. 21. He's Frank Harbist, who joins the Boulder, Colo., company after 21 years at Hewlett-Packard.Harbist's mission will...

Seagate Solves Firmware Issue, Offers Fix for HDD Owners

Here's a last-minute news flash Mike Hall at Seagate Technology sent me Jan. 16: "Seagate has isolated a potential firmware issue in certain products, including...

Iron Mountain Extends Enterprise Online Backup to Macs

A recent Yankee Group global survey contends that the use of Macs in the enterprise is on the rise. The researcher reported that approximately...

Toshiba Ups Flash Production for $1B, Then Cuts It Back

See this Reuters news item on Dec. 16? "Toshiba and SanDisk are reacting to the ongoing financial crisis by cutting production of their NAND...

Gartner: Disk Storage Revenues Up 10 Percent over 2007

Here's more evidence that the data storage business, at least to this point, is unaffected by the U.S. economic downturn that started earlier this...