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Sun Introduces 2TB Flash Storage Array, F5100

October 2009 Sun Microsystems has unveiled a solid-state flash-based storage array with a capacity of up to 2TB, claiming an industry high for the product’s performance. The Sun Storage F5100 Flash Array, introduced on Monday at the Oracle OpenWorld conference in San Francisco, can read up to 1.6 million input/output operations per second (IOPS) and […]

October 2009 Question… when Cisco Systems CEO John Chambers all but announces he’s going on a shopping spree, does his list include a smart-grid tech startup, consumer electronics — or both? And what might be next for Oracle’s Larry Ellison, assuming the $7.4 billion deal for Sun Microsystems gets finalized? Mergers and acquisitions, also known […]

October 2009 Oracle isn’t letting a pesky European Union investigation stand in the way of its planned acquisition of Sun Microsystems. Larry Ellison, the software giant’s chief executive, is joining Sun’s server chief, John Fowler, to show off some new Sun hardware running Oracle’s software on Tuesday. The companies are touting their “partnership” with a […]

September 2009 Final approval of Oracle’s $7.4 billion takeover of Sun Microsystems has just hit a snag,courtesy of European regulators.The European Commission announced Thursday that it has launched an in-depth investigation into the proposed merger between Oracle and Sun. The agency said its preliminary probe raised concerns that the deal could threaten competition in the […]

August 2009 Cisco Systems CEO John Chambers says the economic recession that’s gripped the world for the past year may have reached a tipping point in the last three months, as he sees the company’s corporate customers return to spending more on technology. Even though Cisco‘s sales and profits were down drastically from a year […]

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