Storage Market Shrinks After 21 Years

According to a report published earlier this year by IDC, the $2.8 billion storage market, which includes technologies such as device management, replication, data protection, backup, and archiving, shrunk 5.2% over the year after 21 consecutive years of growth. EMC remained the market leader with 22% market share followed by Symantec with 19% and NetApp

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NetApp Gains Market Share

The storage industry recently witnessed another bidding war between the top vendor EMC and the No.4 vendor, NetApp (NASDAQ:NTAP), over data de-duplication specialist Data Domain. NetApp had in May announced its plans to acquire Data Domain for $1.5 billion. EMC won the bidding warwith a $2.3 billion offer that is more than seven times Data

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Deal Radar 2009: Shipwire

Shipwire offers outsourced warehousing and shipping services for online retailers and small business clients. Businesses use Shipwire for on-demand e-commerce order fulfillment services through a global warehouse network. With warehouses in Los Angeles, Nevada, Chicago, Toronto, Vancouver and the UK, Shipwire allows merchants to reduce shipping costs by locating inventory closer to buyers. This shipping

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Deal Radar 2008: Mimosa Systems

Mimosa Systems has designed a solution to archive and manage email, attachments, IMs and files so that companies can easily access historical communication.

Marvell: Ethernet business

By Vijay Nagarajan, Guest Author In the previous articles in this series, we looked at Marvell’s product strategy, briefly reviewed the fiscal 2008 financials before dissecting the storage business area. Let us now take a look at Marvell’s position in its Ethernet semiconductor business.

Marvell: Storage Market Leadership

By Vijay Nagarajan, Guest Author In the prequel, I looked at Marvell’s fiscal 2008 financials focusing especially on the company’s expenses. As we move ahead, let me dissect its position in the storage industry in general and the hard disk drive market in particular.

Marvell: Fiscal 2008 financials

By Vijay Nagarajan, Guest Author In my previous article on Marvell, I provided a brief overview of the company strategy and product portfolio. Before we move on to dissect the various business areas, let us take a brief look at the fiscal 2008 financials.

Marvell: “A product cycle company”

By Vijay Nagarajan, Guest Author As part of our coverage of the mobile chip vendor space, we looked at Qualcomm, InterDigital, Broadcom and Texas Instruments in great detail. We now move on to another interesting and aggressive fabless semiconductor company – Marvell Technology group. Earlier coverage on Marvell can be found here, here and here.