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Quantum Takes Q1 Revenue Hit: Page 3 of 3

”We announced last quarter that we had signed an agreement for EMC to ship our DXi software on their [3D disk library] product,” he said. ”The EMC relationship will grow and result in more high-margin revenue.”

The last 18 months have certainly not been easy for Quantum, which suffered execution problems earlier this year. The vendor has also had to contend with the fallout from its $770 million ADIC acquisition , not to mention recent weakness in its Asian- and North American-branded businesses.

Quantum is also up against the likes of Diligent, now part of IBM, and Sepaton in the de-dupe space, hence the recent decision to extend its product line.Have a comment on this story? Please click "Discuss" below. If you'd like to contact Byte and Switch's editors directly, send us a message.

  • Diligent Technologies Corp.
  • EMC Corp. (NYSE: EMC)
  • IBM Corp. (NYSE: IBM)
  • Quantum Corp. (NYSE: QTM)
  • Sepaton Inc.