Services company Dimension Data has formalised its relationship with EMC into a global partnership, adding to the trend of service companies waking up to the lucrative nature of storage implementations.
A tender from the Federal Department of Finance and Administration has whittled down its choice for hardware suppliers for 250 electoral offices down to several shortlists, with the big winners being Hewlett-Packard, Toshiba, Dell and Iomega.
Non-bank lender Aussie Home Loans (Aussie) has refined its reporting and decision-making with a data warehouse, in time for its launch into the mortgage market.
The rush for market share in Asia continued today as knowledge management vendor Open Text announced that it has signed a deal with CDC Software, a large player in the Chinese market.
The first desktop hard disk drive featuring a native implementation of the new Serial ATA technology will hit Australia in January, with mainstream adoption expected in mid-2003.
EMC has signalled its intention to make software a greater focus by spinning off a storage management division into a separate company, as well as making several appointments to its management team.
Network Appliance has been the subject of speculation over several deals it is rumoured to be talking over with Cisco Systems and Hitachi Data Systems.
