Chris Preimesberger

Data storage and protection provider Symantec, which has just about everything in its feature arsenal but a complete e-discovery option, took care of that detail May 19 by acquiring Mountain View, Calif., neighbor Clearwell Systems for $390 million. Clearwell’s eDiscovery software package, which Time Warner Communications recently bought for its own corporate system, is well […]

There’s so much competition in online enterprise storage now that price wars are coming to the fore. But hey, that’s capitalism — you can spend your capital anywhere you want. Symform, a new Seattle-based online storage service provider, is jumping into battle with established competitors like EMC Mozy Pro, Amazon S3, Acronis, i365, CommVault, Box, […]

Not too many IT companies have 17th-generation products, but Texas Memory Systems is one that does. The venerable Houston-based company, which has been making solid-state memory for 32 years, came out May 17 with a new NAND flash-based PCIe (Peripheral Component Interconnect Express) card called the “Gorilla”-a high-performance, half-length data accelerator with a whopping 900GB […]

SANTA CLARA, Calif. – Intel, which makes processors for basically anything electronic, is looking at the data center with a new perspective: It’s not just focusing on chips for servers anymore; it’s also making them for every other piece of equipment inside those data centers. This also includes processors for everything from motion-sensor chips and […]

Hewlett-Packard reported modest gains May 17 for its second fiscal quarter ended April 30, led by the continuing success of its enterprise business divisions. However, a bigger issue that new CEO Leo Apotheker faces is that the numbers indicate sales of popular new tablet and phone devices from competitors such as Apple and Samsung are […]

SANTA CLARA, Calif.-Intel found itself answering “no” to some important questions May 17 at the company’s annual shareholder conference here on its Silicon Valley campus. One of them addressed whether the world’s largest processor maker would be coming out in 2011-as it had said last year and earlier this year-with new chips suited for smartphone […]

VMware on May 16 added to its ever-increasing product set by acquiring Shavlik Technologies, a provider of cloud-based IT management software for small and medium-size businesses. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Shavlik, based in New Brighton, Minn., provides on-premises and SAAS (software as a service)-based management software that enables enterprises to manage, monitor […]

Hewlett-Packard Labs research scientists on May 16 reported a new breakthrough in their continuing development of memristors-next-generation memory that some industry people see as an eventual replacement for NAND flash and DRAM storage. A memristor, basically a resistor with memory, apparently has more capabilities than anybody expected. HP Labs has previously reported discovering that a […]

Hours after a federal appeals court on May 16 refused to revisit its April 11 decision ordering two former classmates of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg to accept a multimillion-dollar settlement over an intellectual property dispute, yet another legal maneuver came to the fore. The Los Angeles Times reported late May 16 that Cameron and Tyler […]

SanDisk, internationally known for its little blue NAND flash memory cards used in digital cameras and phones and for thumb drive-type storage devices, has decided to move full throttle into the branded enterprise solid-state storage sector. SanDisk on May 16 announced that it will acquire Pliant Technology, a rising developer of high-end enterprise solid-state drives, […]

Hadoop-Greenplum Appliance Coming Later This Year EMC unveiled a new server that combines Hadoop’s analytics engine for unstructured data with the Greenplum Database, which are both designed to handle massive workloads. The combination of Hadoop and Greenplum is a natural: The same device will enable co-processing of large data sets involving both unstructured and structured […]

Iron Mountain has committed to refocusing itself on its 60-year-old core business, storage and protection of physical media and other property, and is getting out of the digital storage business. U.K.-based Autonomy, a fast-growing, multifaceted IT company, reported May 16 that it will acquire Iron Mountain’s digital archiving, e-discovery and online backup business for $380 […]