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Sun's $4.1 billion buyout of StorageTek is a huge bet: It's the last cash deal that size Sun will be able to make. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about processors, ...

The acquisition is expected to result in Sun moving its entire storage portfolio, including the enterprise-class arrays its resells from Hitachi Data Systems, under the StorageTek brand, and the ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Sun Microsystems Inc. will pay $4.1 billion in cash for venerable Storage Technology Corp. in the state’s biggest technology deal since the dot-com era’s ...

At first glance it may appear that Sun, in its largest cash deal to date, is acquiring little more than tape storage and backup, technology that has been waging a tough battle against competing disk ...

StorageTek unveiled a tape device for midsize businesses on Wednesday, amid signs that tape is preserving a place in data storage. The tape back-up specialist also introduced software for monitoring ...

ConocoPhillips has purchased the former StorageTek campus in Louisville and plans to use the site as its global learning and technology center. The Houston-based company intends to use the property as ...

Storage Technology (StorageTek) is teaming up with Deloitte Consulting to provide a joint consulting service, the companies announced Monday. The service is aimed at organizations looking to comply ...

Storagetek Corp. next year plans to flesh out its information lifecycle management (ILM) strategy with a raft of products designed to help customers manage data from creation to obliteration. In the ...

Sun Microsystems, looking to add market heft, is acquiring storage specialist StorageTek in a deal worth $4.1 billion, the companies said Thursday. The deal will give Sun a greatly expanded storage ...

Expanding its reach in the growing data storage market, server and software maker Sun Microsystems Inc. agreed Thursday to purchase Storage Technology Corp. for $4.1 billion in cash. StorageTek shares ...

Sun Microsystems Inc. has reached an agreement to acquire Storage Technology Corp. (StorageTek) in a move to beef up the U.S. computer company’s storage and data management portfolio. Under the ...