October 27, 2009
Western Digital factories spin at top speed in Q1
Channel Register
Chris Mellor reports on Western Digital’s first fiscal 2010 quarter revenue results, which were 15 per cent up, year over year.
“(Western Digital) recorded sales of $2.2 billion, compared to $2.1 billion a year ago, and net income of $288 million, up from last year’s $211 million, and beating Wall St estimates. Drive shipments totaled 44.1 million, a 12 per cent year-on-year increase, and a record for WD.”
Recession, service outages not hampering cloud adoption, survey finds
Network World
Jon Brodkin writes about cloud computing adoption rates, according to one vendor’s survey findings.
“The global recession has not slowed down interest in the cloud either, and in fact economic troubles are causing customers to look more closely at new technologies that can save them money. ‘The rate of respondents reporting that they are beginning to plan or test cloud computing has increased three-fold in nine months,’ according to a survey commissioned by Avanade, a business technology services vendor. Avanade is a joint venture between Accenture and Microsoft.”
Cisco rival Juniper in for corporate makeover?
Network World
Cisco Subnet writes that according to Forbes and other sources, Juniper will soon unveil a new logo and a new software development environment.
“In addition to the new logo, Forbes and our sources report that Juniper will unveil a new software development environment, called JUNOSpace, with three new applications; a next-generation ASIC developed under the code-name ‘Trinity;’ 100G-ready carrier routers, presumably enhancements to the MX Ethernet platforms; an ‘F5-like’ application accelerator/WAN optimizer with software keys, for the data centre; and an update on its Stratus cloud computing initiative.”