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• IDC: Second-Quarter Storage Sales Slump As Capacity Booms
  2:07 PM EST Tue. Sep. 10, 2013
  External storage and total storage revenue fell in the second quarter compared to last year, with EMC and NetApp doing well while storage sales by server vendors fell, along with server sales.
• Western Digital To Buy Virident, May Mess Up Seagate's Virident Relationship
  4:18 PM EST Mon. Sep. 09, 2013
  Western Digital's plan to acquire Virident for its PCIe flash storage technology could unhinge the Seagate-Virident joint technology development agreement the two signed in early 2013 when Seagate invested $40 million in the company.
• Pure Storage Gets $150M Funding, Talks Big Plans For All-Flash Storage Arrays
  8:03 PM EST Thu. Aug. 29, 2013
  With a new funding round, from investors not normally focused on startups, plus the recruitment of Frank Slootman, former Data Domain CEO and a master at getting companies notices, there's a good chance the all-flash storage array developer will soon look at an IPO.
• VMworld 2013: 20 Must-See Storage Offerings (Part 1)
  2:00 PM EST Wed. Aug. 28, 2013
  Part 1 of a two-part VMworld roundup of a wide range of storage-focused hardware and software shows just how much of a focus storage has become in the new virtualized and cloud environments being built to handle today's complex workloads.
• VMware Expands Software-Defined Storage With New VMware Virtual SAN (VSAN)
  3:38 PM EST Mon. Aug. 26, 2013
  VMware is beefing up the storage leg of its software-defined data center strategy with VMware Virtual SAN (VSAN), which pools SSDs and hard drives from up to eight servers to allow the capacity to be automatically provisioned as needed by virtual machines.
• The 10 Coolest Flash Storage Products Of 2013 (So Far)
  10:00 AM EST Thu. Jul. 18, 2013
  From tiny embedded flash storage memory modules to fully-configured all-flash arrays, the storage industry in the first half of 2013 was subjected to a barrage of new hardware and software promising increased performance for mission-critical applications.
• Lenovo Ousts HP As World's No. 1 PC Maker: IDC
  6:39 PM EST Wed. Jul. 10, 2013
  Lenovo breaks Hewlett-Packard's seven year reign as world's biggest PC maker, according to IDC's second quarter worldwide PC shipment numbers.
• Google's Chromebook Success Bucks PC Slump
  5:10 PM EST Wed. Jul. 10, 2013
  Google Chromebooks now represent 25 percent of the U.S. market for laptops priced under $300.
• The Best And Worst Tech Stocks Of 2013 (So Far)
  4:00 PM EST Wed. Jul. 10, 2013
  It's been a mixed first six months on Wall Street for tech vendors, with some vendors like Hewlett-Packard seeing big run-ups in stock prices and others like FalconStor recording big drops in share value.
• Partners Hope ISS Backing Gives Michael Dell The Edge Vs. Icahn
  7:05 PM EST Mon. Jul. 08, 2013
  Channel partners cheer word that Michael Dell has snagged important backing from Institutional Shareholders Services in his bid to take his company private.