Hitachi Ltd. this week completed its purchase of the majority of IBM Corp.'s hard disk drive manufacturing business for US$2.05 billion, IBM said in a statement.
As research manager in the hardware division of the Products Research Group within IDC Canada, Alan Freedman tracks the multi-user server, enterprise storage and networking hardware markets in Canada.
EMC Corp. launched a midrange Fibre Channel storage array Monday for departments and workgroups within enterprises, which starts at a price that is affordable by most customers.
Dell Computer Corp. and market-leading enterprise storage vendor EMC Corp. said Monday they have formed a five-year, multibillion dollar alliance under which Dell will become the primary reseller of the newly co-branded EMC Clariion portfolio of enterprise storage systems.