‘The explosion in data is so great that it’s almost like, if you have storage space, we’ll take it!’

If you didn’t know any better, we were back in 1999 when Intel and Microsoft and Western Digital and Seagate were hot as freshly shot cannonballs, because we figured out how to get some “high speed” lines to connect personal computers to the world wide web. Of course, those companies are, with the exception of Intel, really very different beasts now.

Seagate Rallies On Robust Second-quarter Earnings

Shares of Seagate Technology PLC rallied in Tuesday’s extended session after the hard-drive maker posted better-than-expected earnings. Seagate reported its fiscal second-quarter earnings nearly doubled to $297 million, or $1 a share, from $165 million, or 55 cents a share, a year earlier.