The storage networking switch maker watched its stock plummet Tuesday after it reported disappointing sales from the Ethernet business it acquired from Foundry for $3 billion in July 2008.
The $112 million cash purchase is the latest in a string of acquisitions and gives Iron Mountain an on-premises archiving option to pair with its popular cloud-based archiving offering.
Virtually Speaking: A torrent of products are being unleashed to meet the challenges of backing up virtual machines. From cloud storage to golden image management, virtualization technologies for storage are on the move.
The chipmaker looks to the future with $1.27 billion purchase of Numonyx, a maker of NOR and NAND Flash microprocessors found in cell phones, digital cameras and mp3 players.
Backups aren't what they used to be. The amount of data to contend with has mushroomed and the technologies available to meet storage needs are increasingly complex. Here's one engineering firm's travails and how it resolved them.
SSDs can improve database and file system performance, but there are a number of issues that need to be addressed to make the most of the pricey drives.