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Battle-Hardened Survivor In its 30 years of existence, Storage Technology Corp. has had many lives. It had a markedly successful debut as a manufacturer of disk and tape drives for IBM mainframes. Along the way, though, it overextended itself and went bankrupt (after a foolhardy attempt 18 years ago to

Late, but Coming on Strong Hitachi Data Systems is gunning for EMC Corp. Although Hitachi entered the market for storage area networks after EMC had become dominant, the subsidiary of Japan’s Hitachi Ltd. is making up for lost time. The most tangible evidence of Hitachi’s rise is the business it

Four years ago, Jim Wicker had a computing mess on his hands. An acquisition binge by his company, Dynamex—a Dallas-based provider of same-day delivery services—had left Wicker managing an information network with 38 different computing systems, 12 operating platforms and six accounting applications. Wicker and his team embarked on a

U.S. Steel Base CaseHeadquarters: 600 Grant St., Pittsburgh, PA. 15219Phone: (412) 433-1121Business: Integrated steel manufacturerFinancials: $6.38 billion total revenue; $218 million net loss (fiscal 2001)CIO: Gene Trudell, managing director of information technology servicesChallenges: Lower costs to better compete with foreign competitors, increase share of high-end steel market, return to profitability,

For all the talk (and reality) of bankruptcy in the steel industry, U.S. Steel is widely lauded for its technology and efficiency. Which simply begs the question: Why is it losing so much money? Better yet, why is it pressuring the government for an industry bailout to pave the way

The Omega of Alpha It was Digital Equipment Corp.’s baby, which went through midlife at Compaq and now will die at Hewlett-Packard. Such is the life of the proprietary Alpha chip, the engine inside the powerful and ultra-reliable AlphaServer computers. Big investment banks, science labs, manufacturers—including U.S. Steel—and military sites