From Facebook to Zynga: A guide to the tech giants establishing Seattle outposts

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Another day, another tech giant sets up shop in Seattle. Perhaps no story over the past 24 months has shaped the technology community in Seattle as much as the arrival of the powerhouses of tech. Drawn to the region by a stable of anchor tenants like Amazon.com, Expedia and Microsoft and enticed by top-notch computer… Read More…

Exclusive: The inside details on EMC’s $36M purchase of Likewise Software

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Few details were available last week when EMC purchased Likewise Software. Now, GeekWire has learned that EMC’s Isilon unit paid $36.6 million for the 7-year-old Bellevue company — a deal that Likewise CEO Barry Crist described as a “solid win” for employees and shareholders. As part of the deal, $3.5 million is being set aside in a… Read More…

Amazon.com announces price cuts on S3 storage service

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Amazon Web Services is cutting prices … again. The company just announced a series of price reductions related to its S3 storage service, with Jeff Barr of AWS explaining the rationale in a blog post. S3, which stands for Simple Storage Service, is used by companies to store everything from Web applications to digital content…. Read More…

Mozy rolls out Stash, another place to access files on the go

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There’s no shortage of online storage and synchronization services on the market, from Box.net to Dropbox to Apple’s iCloud to Seattle’s very own TappIn (acquired last month by GlobalScape). Now, here comes another player, and boy does it have deep pockets. Seattle-based Mozy, the unit of storage giant EMC, today is announcing the public availability of… Read More…

Apple plans huge storage buy from Isilon: Could this be the backbone of its ‘media locker?’

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Holy, Toledo. That was my reaction after reading a report in The Register that Apple has agreed to buy as much as 12 petabytes of storage from Isilon Systems, the Seattle company that was gobbled up by EMC late last year. Now, what in the world would Apple need with all of that storage capacity?… Read More…

With a common corporate parent, VMware takes over Seattle back-up service Mozy

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Now, here’s some complex corporate maneuvering for you. VMware announced today that it is gobbling up Mozy, the six-year-old Seattle online backup service previously owned by storage giant EMC. The deal gets a little interesting in terms of the lineage of these companies. As you may recall, EMC spun off VMware into a publicly traded… Read More…