Chamber's "almost" excludes a healthy offering in data-storage gear.
Brocade Communications dropped $2, to $5.28, after the company, a maker of data-storage networking gear, warned of lower-than-expected first-quarter revenue.
Veeco Instruments (20, VECO), which supplies gear for chipmakers and data storage firms, had a good 2005.
Sitting near the back of a packed room and armed with an inventory list of more than 3,000 products, he repeatedly flashed his auction card to bid up an item -- a Sun Microsystems server, some networking gear from Cisco Systems, a data storage system.
Smack in the middle of the tech bubble, Daniel Warmenhoven was offering customers an astounding proposition: His company, Network Appliance, could deliver data storage devices that cost a third of what they paid for gear made by EMC, the storage leader.
Smack in the middle of the tech bubble, Daniel Warmenhoven was offering customers an astounding proposition: His company, Network Appliance, could deliver data storage devices that cost one-third of what they paid for gear made by EMC Corp., the storage leader.
"If we wanted to be on the safe side in terms of regulation, we probably would need 95 individual data centres," says Chuck Hollis, a technologist at EMC, the leading maker of storage gear, which owns Mozy, a cloud service that allows users to back up their data.There are technological fixes to this problem, too.
As for Carlyle, it saw a company with good bones, a leader that was at or near the top of many product categories and perhaps more importantly, a loyal and satisfied customer base with a good set of products geared toward growing markets like big data and the data storage that is part of that.
Amazon's S3 (Simple Storage Service) lets companies store digital files in Amazon's data center for 15 cents per gigabyte per month; that compares to up to $10 per gigabyte to buy storage gear outright from EMC. S3 is especially cheap for warehousing old, unchanging files; plus, you pay as you go.
HP also used "virtualization" software to increase flexibility among its 21,700 servers by assigning extra tasks to gear that previously had performed one function now making a server dedicated to, say, Web applications also manage data storage.
Online data storage didn't really exist.
