Chris Preimesberger

SAN FRANCISCO – Three early adopters of IBM’s new SmartCloud for Business were on hand at Big Blue’s Cloud Forum event April 7 at the Westin St. Francis to explain in some detail how the new offering is adding to their IT production capacities. The companies were scientific systems integrator Illuminata, health-care provider Kaiser Permanente […]

EMC Iomega already is a well-known and successful producer of inexpensive yet reliable personal storage devices for the home and small-business markets. Now the San Diego, Calif.-based subsidiary of EMC is expanding its horizons to adapt to storage for video surveillance, something few of its competitors are doing. Iomega on April 6 announced that AXIS […]

International energy management giant Schneider Electric, which supplies power-control products and services for thousands of IT systems, on April 5 acquired Lee Technologies, a services bureau for North American data centers. Financial details of the transaction were not disclosed. Lee Technologies, based in Fairfax, Va., specializes in 24/7-type data center services, such as remote monitoring […]

SAN FRANCISCO – As strange as it seems, IBM had not made available a public-cloud service offering for production purposes until it launched its SmartCloud for Business on April 7 at a cloud forum here at the Westin St. Francis. That’s right. You couldn’t swipe a credit card and obtain an IBM cloud service for […]

SAN JOSE, Calif. – Hewlett-Packard updated both its products/service package and its marketing message April 5 in the category of information-management software and services. Actually, there is more news at this time in the way the company is presenting its software and services to potential buyers than the launch of any new products themselves. But […]

Everything in IT storage keeps getting smaller, lighter and more capacious, and Seagate’s latest portable drive is no exception to this trend. Seagate on April 5 started shipping its newest GoFlex Slim portable hard drive, a 2.5-inch HDD which is a mere 9mm in thickness and 3.25 inches-by-5 inches in size. The 320GB version retails […]

SANTA CLARA, Calif. – To the surprise of virtually no one who works in or follows the enterprise IT world, a new survey reported that cloud-computing services and system building continue to become more prominent in both augmenting and replacing older data center equipment. In addition, the research indicated that the Storage Networking Industry Association’s […]

SANTA CLARA, Calif. – Mozy, which has served as the cloud-storage division of EMC for the last four years, revealed to eWEEK on April 4 that its business relationship has changed with the parent company. Starting immediately, employees at the Utah-based Mozy will be seeing a new employer name on their paychecks: that of its […]

Disk and tape storage maker Quantum on April 4 made good a planned change in its C-level leadership, naming President and COO Jon Gacek as its new CEO. Gacek succeeds Rick Belluzzo, who had led the company since 2002. Belluzzo, who was president and COO of Microsoft from 1999 to 2002, moves to the newly […]

SANTA CLARA, Calif. – Storage-appliance maker Avere Systems on April 4 launched a pair of new scale-out NAS (network-attached storage) devices for midmarket and large enterprises. The company made the announcement on Day 1 of the Storage Networking World conference here at the Santa Clara Convention Center. The event continues through April 7. The FXT […]

Rumors that circulated recently about EMC buying another data security-related company turned out to be true after all. The storage and data security giant announced April 4 that it has acquired Virginia-based NetWitness, a provider of network security monitoring and analysis software, and had closed the deal on April 1. Terms of the transaction were […]

Storage networking and device maker Buffalo Technology is putting an “easy” button — think of that ubiquitous TV commercial for an office products retail store — onto a new home-and-small-office network storage device. Not only did Buffalo on March 31 launch a new NAS (network-attached storage)-type desktop device with lots of additional storage (1TB or […]