Veteran computer scientist and business leader Paul Maritz is perhaps best known for his work in PC and server operating systems, cloud computing, and enterprise infrastructure technology. But he also… Read More
Dell Inc. today closed its $67 billion deal to buy EMC Corp., taking on the name Dell Technologies and sealing what the Wall Street Journal called the largest technology merger… Read More
OK, Sounders fans. Match day is almost here. The fourth annual GeekWire Sounders Day — hosted on the amazing rooftop deck of EMC/Isilon — will kick off at 4:30 p.m.… Read More
PALM DESERT, Calif. — Big acquisitions can be complex, time consuming and downright messy. HP knows this better than most, since its controversial acquisition of Compaq in September 2001 nearly “tore… Read More
In what’s being dubbed the largest tech acquisition of all time, Dell today announced planes to buy storage giant EMC Corp. for $67 billion. The combined company will be run… Read More
Much of the speculation about Microsoft’s next CEO has focused on individual candidates for the job, but what if the company could land two veteran leaders with complementary technical and… Read More
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… Read More
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… Read More
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… Read More
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… Read More
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… Read More
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… Read More