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    Xiotech Acquires Part of Seagate’s RandD Operation

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    Chris Preimesberger
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    November 7, 2007
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      Midrange enterprise storage system provider Xiotech said Nov. 7 that it has acquired Seagate Technology’s Advanced Storage Architecture division, which consists of about 100 developers in Colorado Springs, Colo.

      In the acquisition, Xiotech purchased assets of the ASA business and acquired a license to the associated technology. Financial details of the transaction were not made available.

      Seagate, based in Scotts Valley, Calif., is the world’s largest hard disk drive maker.

      “This is a skunk-works-type operation,” Seagate spokesperson Woody Monroy told eWEEK. “They are working on developing a new storage architecture that can scale multiple markets and aggregate storage drives to make them appear [ostensibly through virtualization] as a single peripheral.”

      Click here to read about why the U.S. International Trade Commission are investigating Seagate, Hewlett-Packard, Dell and others for potential patent violations.

      The Seagate ASA group had been in operation since about 2000 but hadn’t brought any of its technologies to market, Monroy told eWEEK.

      Ellen Lary will serve as the vice president and general manager of this team. Lary, who most recently was a consultant to the Seagate ASA group, became vice president and general manager of Digital Equipment’s Storage Product Division in 1996, where she grew the business to $1.9 billion in revenue.

      After Compaq’s acquisition of Digital, she was appointed vice president of Business Critical Storage for Compaq.

      Steve Sicola, general manager of the Seagate ASA group, will serve as the chief technology officer for Xiotech. Sicola has more than 29 years in the storage industry, was a Compaq Fellow, and was chief technology officer of StorageWorks at Compaq and Digital.

      “We think that the ASA technology will in time transform the market’s perceptions about storage capacity, performance and reliability,” said Casey Powell, president and CEO, Xiotech. “In time, we expect the ASA group to provide significant additional revenue to Xiotech.”

      Xiotech, based in Eden Prairie, Minn., is a provider of data storage and data protection products and services to midsize organizations. It makes the Magnitude line of midrange storage solutions that includes Fibre Channel and iSCSI-based SAN (storage area network) systems and a comprehensive set of data protection solutions.

      Check out eWEEK.com’s Storage Center for the latest news, reviews and analysis on enterprise and small business storage hardware and software.

      Chris Preimesberger
      https://www.eweek.com/author/cpreimesberger/
      Chris J. Preimesberger is Editor Emeritus of eWEEK. In his 16 years and more than 5,000 articles at eWEEK, he distinguished himself in reporting and analysis of the business use of new-gen IT in a variety of sectors, including cloud computing, data center systems, storage, edge systems, security and others. In February 2017 and September 2018, Chris was named among the 250 most influential business journalists in the world (https://richtopia.com/inspirational-people/top-250-business-journalists/) by Richtopia, a UK research firm that used analytics to compile the ranking. He has won several national and regional awards for his work, including a 2011 Folio Award for a profile (https://www.eweek.com/cloud/marc-benioff-trend-seer-and-business-socialist/) of Salesforce founder/CEO Marc Benioff--the only time he has entered the competition. Previously, Chris was a founding editor of both IT Manager's Journal and DevX.com and was managing editor of Software Development magazine. He has been a stringer for the Associated Press since 1983 and resides in Silicon Valley.

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