Seagate Going to China?
Posted by Stephen in Computer history, Enterprise storage, Terabyte home on 27. Aug, 2007 | View Comments
The stock market was alive with rumors that Seagate might be bought by an unnamed Chinese company, as reported in the New York Times, among others. This comes after a week of insider whispers about a possible tieup between Seagate and memory-makers, Micron or SanDisk, itself a Seagate spin-off. It seems that the [...]
Storage from behind the great wall
Posted by Stephen in Enterprise storage on 18. Jul, 2007 | View Comments
Yes, folks, China is rising in storage industry. A while back, my good friend Marc Staimer suggested that Huawei might become the next great storage vendor. Well, Huawei’s joint venture with 3Com has now become 3Com’s unit in China, H3C. That’s right, Bob Metcalfe’s old company bought Huawei out of the venture [...]
