Chris Preimesberger

There are a lot of specialized moving parts in data centers that easily can be overlooked in the day-to-day IT news business. Nonetheless, they can be huge contributors to the mission of an IT department inside of an enterprise. One of these unsung components is the idea of a purpose-built data-collection engine for e-discovery and […]

Seagate went there earlier this month with its GoFlex Satellite, and now Kingston is stepping forth with its own new wireless storage device specifically for iOS devices. Kingston on June 2 introduced its Wi-Drive portable storage drive for Apple’s iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch. The NAND flash-based Wi-Drive is small enough to fit into a […]

Some observers of the IT world were taken aback by Hewlett-Packard’s most recent quarterly earnings report, which plainly showed that the world’s largest supplier of personal computers had slipped in the consumer laptop/notebook department. People who follow the PC business closely, however, were not surprised. These folks already knew that Apple’s iPad and iPad 2, […]

Those roller-coaster memory markets-in this case, dynamic RAMs-are at it again. DRAM industry revenue in the first quarter of 2011 fell short of expectations-primarily due to low pricing, according to a quarterly report issued May 31 by industry market analyst IHS iSuppli. Global DRAM revenue during the first three months of the year amounted to […]

SanDisk used the Computex 2011 conference in Taipei to introduce a couple of tiny new storage devices. The new drives, dubbed SSD U100 and iSSD i100, feature SATA III interfaces and can transfer data to and from the PC at roughly twice the speed of the standard Sandisk P4 drives they are intended to replace, […]

Storage network systems maker NetApp and storage software provider CommVault, whom some might think ought to be competitors because they sell into many of the same markets, announced May 31 that they have signed a new global OEM agreement under which they will cross-pollinate some key products. In fact, California-based NetApp and New Jersey-based CommVault […]

Hardly a month goes by without virtualization giant VMware buying more new intellectual property as it continues to build out its product set. The company revealed May 31 that it has acquired Socialcast, a 3-year-old San Francisco-based social collaboration software maker for enterprises. Terms of the deal were not released by either company. It was […]

Eight months after it began an ambitious project to digitize a lifetime worth of music, artwork, photos and various other property of one of the world’s most renowned musicians, Hewlett-Packard revealed May 26 that Sir Paul McCartney’s new cloud storage/access system has launched and is open for business. McCartney’s publishing company, MPL Communications, is handling […]

Virtual-desktop specialist Citrix Systems (Nasdaq: CTXS) is making the rounds for lining up new intellectual property and partnership deals. On May 25 at its annual Synergy conference, the Santa Clara, Calif.-based company revealed a new agreement with storage giant EMC to optimize its XenDesktop for EMC’s new VNX unified storage systems. The VNX packages were […]

As has been the case for more than a decade, the data storage business is so healthy that it literally has to work overtime to keep up with the ever-increasing demand from the world’s content creators. Those content creators are just about everybody you see. Anybody with a camera on a phone, tablet or other […]

As companies like Hewlett-Packard, Lenovo and Dell have recently experienced with a drop in sales of their notebook PCs, the coming of the tablet is affecting the IT business in several areas. While sales of solid-state NAND flash drives areexpected to boom by 400 percent over the next year, researcher IHS iSuppli reported May 25 […]

Network storage provider NetApp (Nasdaq: NTAP) exemplified the ever-increasing commercial interest in cloud computing data storage May 25 by reporting better-than-expected quarterly results. The Sunnyvale, Calif.-based company reported fiscal Q4 revenue of $1.428 billion, up 22 percent and surpassing the $1.387 billion expected, according to a group of Thomson Reuters analysts. Net profit for the […]