Joseph M. Tucci, chief of EMC, a maker of computer data storage systems, echoed the Siebel forecast.
In a startling talk Thursday evening, a vice president who oversees the internal engineering of Amazon's global computing system described how Amazon is building its own specialized computers, data storage systems, networking systems, even power substations and optical transmissions systems.
These are Web page servers, database computers, data storage systems, news feed servers and something called memcache servers, which speed overall performance.
The EMC Corporation, the maker of computer data-storage systems, dropped a plan to buy $3 billion of hard drives from the International Business Machines Corporation, citing I.B.M. production delays.
The Storage Technology Corporation, a maker of computer data-storage systems, said yesterday that its fourth-quarter profit and sales topped estimates it had raised in October.
The EMC Corporation, one of the world's largest makers of computer data-storage systems, yesterday acquired the rights to discontinued storage software from BMC Software in exchange for access to BMC's customers.
The EMC Corporation, the world's largest maker of computer data-storage systems, reported yesterday that it had second-quarter income of $808,000, breaking even per share; that income is down 99percentt from $108.9 million, or 5 cents a share, a year earlier.
The EMC Corporation, one of the largest makers of computer data-storage systems, said yesterday that it expected to meet its third-quarter forecast for profit to rise to 4 cents a share, on an estimated sales increase to $1.45 billion to $1.5 billion.
EMC, a maker of computer-data storage systems, had pressed McData for lower prices on switches and had refused to accept delivery of an order, said Steven B. Berg, an analyst for Punk, Ziegel & Company.
Western Digital has diversified beyond its legacy business of hard drives for PCs which now account for less than half of revenue into drives for notebook computers, data-storage systems and consumer electronics.
