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West Joins East: Western Digital buying Hitachi Global Storage


7 March 2011

As seen in the NY Times DealBook Western Digital announced earlier today that it will be purchasing Hitachi Global Storage Technologies in a deal worth $4.3 Billion. The landscape of storage manufacturers just got a bit smaller, but it remains a massive growing technology industry.

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Tides of Change: Economics and the IT industry


1 December 2008

Recently CBL’s Business Development Manager, Kalle Almer, attended a panel format event discussing the current state of the economy and the effects on the Canadian IT industry. Some interesting topics were focused on and with uncertain directions, panelists pondered how things will unfold in the current conditions.

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