Bring high-end storage features (automated data tiering, deduplication, virtualization, etc.) to the mid enterprise market.
The reason is that 3PAR is a rare player in a high-end storage market dominated by Hitachi and EMC.
Also, despite significant headwinds, the company grew its high-end storage business by 5%.
The days of 60% margins on high-end storage systems may be gone, but Darren Thomas, a former head of storage at Compaq and now chief executive of Zambeel, a start-up, says that storage remains the most durable part of the technology industry.
In January, STEC announced a deal with longtime Seagate rival EMC to collaborate on a high-end networked storage system.
In January, STEC announced a deal with longtime Seagate rival EMC (nyse: EMC - news - people ) to collaborate on a high-end networked storage system.
The deal would improve HP's position in key markets such as storage and high-end computing, as well as the economics of its PC business.
In many cases, REIT earnings exceeded Wall Street's expectations, with owners of high-end shopping malls and self-storage space posting the largest gains.
The money will be made at the high end: huge disk drives and other storage devices for the servers that sit at the hubs of networks.
The announcement today that IBM is acquiring high end enterprise SSD supplier, Texas Memory makes Big Blue the latest storage company to acquire a solid state storage supplier.
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By launching an iPad with the same storage option as the Surface Pro, Apple is effectively positioning the high-end iPad as a computer replacement.
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Texas Memory (a private company) has provided high end Tier 0 DRAM and more recently Tier 0 and Tier 1 NAND flash-based storage systems since 1978.
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