More homes and offices are getting wired with high-speed Internet connections, a market-altering shift that is buttressed by a stream of advances in data storage, computer-processing and software.
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The EMC Corporation, a maker of data-storage computers, said yesterday it had doubled the speed of its top machines.
The EMC Corporation will keep cutting prices aggressively to fight off rivals challenging its leadership in the market for data-storage computers, its chairman, Michael C. Ruettgers, said yesterday.
Network Appliance, a maker of data-storage computers, said yesterday that fiscal third-quarter net income rose 50percentt, but its shares fell after the company said fourth-quarter sales would be below some analysts' estimates.
EMC, the No.3 maker of data-storage computers, rose 39 cents, to $13.91 and Applied Materials, the largest maker of semiconductor manufacturing equipment, advanced 40 cents, to $23.92.
EMC, which makes corporate data-storage computers, reported second-quarter net income of $429 million, or 19 cents a share, compared with $286 million, or 13 cents a share, in the similar quarter last year.
Shares in the McData Corporation, a maker of switches for data-storage computer networks, fell nearly 18percentt yesterday after the company said sales this quarter would miss forecasts.
The McData Corporation, a maker of switches for data-storage computer networks, said yesterday that it would fall short of its own estimates for third-quarter revenue by as much as 17percentt because of a pricing dispute with its top customer, the EMC Corporation.
In October, Dell announced advanced products in servers, data storage and computer networking.
While Hewlett-Packard has reported that revenue from its OpenView software, which manages a corporation's servers, data storage and computer networks, has been growing about 20percentt year over year, the overall software unit has not been very profitable.
