Adstar it is – or, in full, Adstar, An IBM Company: IBM Corp’s new San Jose-based storage company takes in IBM’s disk drives, tape drives, disk arrays, optical storage devices, control units and storage management software, and does annual business of $8,000m so that if it were an independent company, it would be in the Fortune top 60; it has 17,000 employees, over 40% of them in San Jose, and takes in operations in IBM locations in Rochester, Minnesota; Tucson, Arizona; Havant, Hampshire; Mainz and Berlin, Germany; Valencia, Spain; Jarfalla, Sweden; Fujisawa and Yamato, Japan; Martinez, Argentina; Sumare, Brazil; and Guadalajara, Mexico.
