Seagate and Samsung announced a broad agreement this morning (April 19, 2011) that the two companies will “combine” their HDD businesses. Seagate will pay Samsung $1.38 billion, half cash and half newly-issued shares of Seagate stock, which will result in Samsung owning 9.6% of Seagate, earning Samsung a nomination for a position on Seagate’s board. [...]

 Combined Company Revenues to Exceed Seagate’s Summary On Monday March 7 Western Digital (WD) announced that the company had reached an agreement to purchase Hitachi Global Storage Technologies (HGST) for $4.3 billion in cash and common stock. The deal has already been approved by both companies’ boards and is expected to close in the third [...]

 January 4, 2011, Storage Visions Las Vegas-Jeff Lowe, COO of Building 4 Media, talked about converting a broadcast studio into a digital flow in his presentation titled “bigger and more expensive doesn’t always mean better”. He noted that enterprise-class storage systems are not suitable for media operations. After spending 10 years of Apple, and thinking [...]

 It used to be that a small team of people were responsible for the organization’s  reputation management efforts/activities. OMG those days are gone and they’re  never coming back. Today reputation management is a 24×7 job that is the responsibility of everyone on the team. Sure management sets the tone/direction but someone (even outside the organization [...]

 Bet you’re looking forward to next weekend like there’s no tomorrow! Labor Day weekend is a great time to unwind, shed the stress, strain, anxiety of your workday world. Of course you won’t shed it all…you’ll check email, you’ll carry your phone with you. Well we’ll add a little more to the load you’re carrying. [...]

Solid-state NAND-flash memory is transforming data processing in numerous ways. Good examples are video capture and digital video workflow impacts. This transformation has only begun and promises to affect the media industry in surprising ways for years. But, right now it’s presently a bit complicated. So, we’ll have a follow-up post on that subject in [...]

Apple’s new IPhone offers video conferencing between two parties.