Job Losses: EMC Joins The Club

EMC have finally announced that they will be following the industry trend and cutting staff. Approximately 7% (2400) of the workforce will go. The cuts are widely reported (here for instance) and at their earliest were forecast by Stephen Foskett in his December post.

Have a look at this list of tech layoffs. Those storage related are Seagate, Dell, EMC, WD, Pillar Data, Sun, SanDisk, HP. Not on the list are Quantum and COPAN.

Do you know of any others?

2009 will be the year of rationalisation and optimisation. The only prediction to make for the next 12 months is that end-users will be looking to do more with less.