Quantum to buy tape rival Certance
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Data storage tape company will pay $60 million in cash.
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CommScope Inc.  agreed to buy rival communications equipment maker Andrew Corp.  for about $2.6 billion, aiming to cut manufacturing costs and strengthen positioning with service providers, the companies said on Wednesday.
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(InfoWorld) - Quantum introduced a disk storage appliance Monday that could both appeal to enterprise customers and improve its partnerships with other storage vendors. Quantum's DXi7500 is an integrated data deduplication, disk backup, and tape archiving device, also called a VTL (virtual tape library), that is a complement to the smaller DXi3500 and DXi5500 modelsÂ Quantum introduced in December 2006. The DXi7500 offers up to 240TB of disk storage capacity, versus 4.2TB and 11TB for the 3500 and 5500, respectively. A terabyte is 1,000 gigabytes of data. The new model also has a healthy appetite for data, deduplicating and saving it to disk at the rate of 8TB per hour. The DXi7500 would serve an enterprise by taking data already deduplicated by the smaller DX appliances at remote offices of a company and deduplicating it further, said Mike Sparkes, product manager for disk systems at Quantum. Deduplication is the software-based process of searching through data and eliminating multiple copies of files so that less data needs to be saved to disk storage. The Quantum system also creates a backup tape copy of that data, which is stored for archiving purposes. The system eliminates the need for tape backup at remote locations, which can be difficult for limited staffs there to manage. "Suddenly, you get to retain two or three months of backup data instead of two or three days," said Sparkes. "Instead of just being a buffer to tape, which VTLs have usually been, it becomes more of a permanent repository of backup data." The DXi7500 also gives enterprise storage managers the option of using either the in-line or post-process approach to saving to disk. With the in-line approach, data is transferred from a production server to the disk storage appliance for deduplication, but that is a time-consuming process that ties up the server, preventing it from doing more computing. The post-process approach moves data off the server quickly so the server can get back to work, but requires additional capacity in the storage appliance to hold all that data while it deduplicates it. Giving storage administrators a choice is welcome, said Robert Amatruda, research manager at IDC. "What they are doing is to provide some flexibility for the customers." VTLÂ technology is a nascent market, Amatruda said. IDC forecasts market revenue to grow to $4.1 billion by 2011 and for the amount of data stored in VTL systems to increase at a compound annual growth rate of 47.4 percent over the same period. Quantum can leverage the DXi7500 to strengthen existing ties with OEMs, such as Hewlett-Packard, Sun, and others, said Greg Schulz, founder of Storage I/O Group, an industry research and consulting firm. "Quantum sells a turnkey solution, which means for an OEM that they can just put their logo on it andÂ rebadge it, and people will buy it knowing it's a Quantum-based product," said Schulz.
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LTO (linear tape open)-based drives are invigorating the tape storage market. New third-generation LTO drives from Certance and IBM are powering the trend.
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Japan's answer to CES features a Blu-ray camcorder from Hitachi, Toshiba's plans for big-screen SED TVs, and more.
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Flextronics International will buy Solectron for about $3.6 billion, the two companies said Monday, in a move by Flextronics to catch up with Hon Hai Precision Industry, the world's biggest manufacturer of electronics for other companies.
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The fundamental memory component of a quantum computer has been built for the first time using a string of atoms. This could offer a more reliable way to build a working quantum computer than other techniques, suggest researchers.
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NEC Corp. researchers have developed a quantum cryptography system with sufficient speed and range to make it commercially viable. It could go on sale in the second half of 2005, the researchers said Thursday.
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PARIS (CP) - The electronics giant that operates under the Thomson, RCA and Technicolor brand names said Friday it will introduce high-definition DVD players next year and support two recording formats, HD DVD and Blu-ray.
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Mind the gap Watford Electronics, the elephant's graveyard of great channel names like Carrera, Time, and Tiny has been sold to Globally.â¦
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InfoWorld - Quantum introduced a disk storage appliance Monday that could both appeal to enterprise customers and improve its partnerships with other storage vendors.
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Semiconductor manufacturer LSI Logic said Monday it would acquire Agere Systems, creating a combined chip-making company with enough scale to compete for greater market share in segments including hard disks and digital media players.ADVERTISEMENTNEW IT SERVICES FROM IBM: EASIER TO BUY AND IMPLEMENTDiscover a simpler, more cost-effective way to get the solutions your company needs to grow more flexible and efficient.
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Tape storage king StorageTek puts new pressure on the storage-management market with an acquisition. By Martin J. Garvey. Storage Technology Corp.
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At CES, company and Panasonic unveil co-branded gadget for playing and recording shows from any U.S. cable operator's system.
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DECEMBER 21, 2004  - In a move aimed at bolstering its product line, storage vendor EMC Corp. is buying SMARTS Inc.
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(InfoWorld) - Flextronics International plans to acquire rival Solectron to create an electronics manufacturing services powerhouse with more than $30 billion in annual revenue, Flextronics announced Monday. Flextronics, located in Singapore, would acquire Solectron, based in Milpitas, California, in a stock and cash deal worth about $3.6 billion. The combined company would operate in 35 countries with a combined employee base of about 200,000 people, including about 4,000 design engineers, Flextronics said in a press release. Both companies provide manufacturing services to a variety of industries. Flextronics focuses on electronics design, engineering, and manufacturing services to OEMs serving the automotive, computing, consumer digital, and medical industries. Solectron focuses on design, supply chain management, and product warranty repair services to companies serving the networking, telecom, computing, storage, automotive, medical, and defense industries. The deal will help the two companies improve their product development processes and supply chain management, Flextronics said in a press release. Solectron's strength in high-end computing and telecom will be an "invaluable addition" to Flextronics, Flextronics CEO Mike McNamara said in a statement. "We will be a larger, more competitive company and therefore better positioned to deliver supply chain solutions that fulfill our customers' increasingly complex requirements," he added. In February,Â Solectron CEO Michael Cannon resigned to join DellÂ as president of global operations. The merger is expected to close by the end of the year. The deal needs approval from shareholders from both companies as well as possible regulatory approvals, Flextronics said.
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DivX announced a new deal with Sony Pictures at this week's CES that will let online retailers offer the studio's entire library for download and playback on DivX-certified devices. The company also debuted a new D-Link media hub, which will compete with the Apple TV.