Chris Preimesberger

Networking chip maker Broadcom, which makes Bluetooth WiFi chips for iPhones and Samsung Galaxy tablet PCs, expanded its reach into the embedded systems market Sept. 12 when it revealed that it is acquiring NetLogic Microsysems for $3.7 billion in cash. Broadcom said the transaction is expected to close in the first half of 2012. Terms […]

IT integration and consulting firm Accenture on Sept. 12 agreed to pay a fine of $63.7 million to settle a Department of Justice lawsuit charging that it accepted kickbacks from IT companies in exchange for good recommendations to federal agencies looking for new technology.The DOJ, which has been on the warpath with several IT companies […]

The advent of increasingly larger data workloads is affecting all facets of the IT world-especially storage. All that data has to be put somewhere where it is safe and easily accessible for sanctioned people. Backup, recovery and archive provider Quantum (NYSE:QTM) on Sept. 8 revealed that it is fine-tuning its product line to handle these […]

As they have for more than a decade, makers of storage systems for consumers and small and midsize businesses continue to leapfrog over each other when it comes to aerial density and overall storage capacity in their devices. The latest such example is Seagate (NASDAQ:STX), which on Sept. 7 announced it is now shipping a […]

Hitachi Data Systems, not known for making many acquisitions, revealed Sept. 7 that it has acquired high-performance storage system maker BlueArc to bolster its enterprise product line.Details and a total purchase price in the all-cash deal were not released.HDS had been the largest of BlueArc’s OEM customers. The two companies had been doing business together […]

Ten years ago, when the 9/11 terrorist attacks hit the eastern United States, storage and security concerns about business data weren’t that different from what we have today. Large enterprises housed their data in mainframes and array clusters, and they had archive tapes carted away to mysterious locations. Midrange businesses also did this but on […]

Yahoo, a Web services pioneer that has been beset with financial troubles for the better part of the last decade, made a change in leadership Sept. 6 when its board of directors removed CEO Carol Bartz and named Chief Financial Officer Tim Morse as interim CEO. It was the second announcement of a change at […]

Sales in the data storage industry, as has been the case for more than a decade, continue to travel “up and to the right” on all the market report charts, and with the continuing deluge of data pouring into storage devices, no change is expected anytime soon.Following last week’s upbeat storage hardware report, industry analyst […]

It was bound to happen, but it probably came to the fore earlier than most storage industry experts expected. The first single-platter hard disk drive for high-performance desktop PCs with a full terabyte of capacity is now shipping as of Sept. 6, courtesy of Hitachi Global Storage Technologies.Hitachi’s 3.5-inch Deskstar 7K1000.D drive is now being […]

Backup, recovery and archiving specialist Quantum, which made its reputation building reliable storage hardware devices for midrange enterprises, has launched a new hardware/software package specifically to protect data housed on virtual machines. The vmPRO 4000, announced Aug. 29 at VMworld in Las Vegas, incorporates backup software with integrated storage–including deduplication–in a single package designed for […]

An eight-person jury, supervised by Oakland-based federal Judge Phyllis Hamilton in November 2010, had its wishes overturned Sept. 1 when, upon appeal, Hamilton threw out the jury’s $1.3 billion punishment determination against German software maker SAP for admitted copyright infringement against longtime rival Oracle. Oracle would have banked the largest U.S. copyright infringement award on […]

SAN FRANCISCO – Marc Benioff is a very candid yet benevolent fellow, having given millions of dollars to charities over the years, helped many small companies get started, and offered his time and assistance for causes in which he believes. He also loves to speak to the press and to his constituents, and enjoys heaping […]