Chris Preimesberger

BridgeSTOR on March 23 started shipping a new optimized storage appliance for midrange-size IT systems that find themselves dealing with ever-increasing workloads. And that means just about everybody. Dubbed the Application Optimized Storage Appliance for Network Storage, the new offering is designed to trim operational costs for storage capacity, power, cooling and management across both […]

Dell on March 24 started shipping a new ruggedized laptop with special features designed specifically for forensic evidence collection by law enforcement or scientific specialists. The Mobile Digital Forensic package, based on the company’s location-based Digital Forensics product, is aimed at providing easier and more secure collection and storage of digital evidence at crime scenes […]

Cloud storage and collaboration service Box, formerly known as Box.net, launched a new enterprise content-management connector March 24 that works hand-in-hand with its storage platform. Box’s ECM Cloud Connect, facilitated via a partnership with EntropySoft, helps enterprises augment the reach of their on-premise ECM systems by linking them to Box’s cloud content-management platform. The idea […]

Xangati, an IT company with a name that sounds like a character from “The Lion King,” on March 24 launched Xangati VDI Dashboard, which tracks and reports on all infrastructure factors that affect the performance of an enterprise’s virtual desktop infrastructure.Xangati, which describes itself as a performance management provider for virtual desktop infrastructure, uses its […]

Oracle, despite expensive acquisitions and legal headaches during the past 12 months, continues to report the double-whammy of business nirvana: increasing revenue and profits. The world’s second-largest software maker said March 24 in its fiscal third-quarter report that revenue for the quarter ended Feb. 28 jumped 37 percent to $8.76 billion. Oracle also said its […]

When you store a file or any other type of data, you want to make sure it stays stored. Conversely, when you delete any type of data, you want to make sure it’s deleted. Simple concepts they are, but they are not always simple to do — especially when it comes to cloud storage. Secure […]

IT systems integrator CDW on March 22 released results of a study about business continuity/disaster recovery methodology that indicates 25 percent of all enterprise IT systems suffered unplanned outages of 4 hours or more during the past year. Based on this data, CDW said it estimates conservatively that such network outages cost U.S. businesses $1.7 […]

Automation is the most desired function in IT right now. With an ever-multiplying pile of data pouring into the world’s data containers, IT managers need all the help they can get to maintain control over it all. Thus, the more IT can do on autopilot to get workloads processed in a timely manner, the better […]

DataCore Software, aiming to join the hot “converged infrastructure” data center trend, has updated its SANsymphony-V network-attached storage platform to satisfy an enterprise’s evolving NAS requirements in addition to meeting its SAN needs. The storage virtualization software maker made the announcement March 21 on the first day of the Microsoft Management Summit 2011 in Las […]

As IT technologies come and go, storage administrators who wonder whether data stored in digital tape archives will still be usable and/or easily accessible 20, 30 or 50 years from now don’t have to think about that anymore. Digital tape system provider Spectra Logic is taking away that uncertainty. The Boulder, Colo.-based company on March […]

VMware has a present for all those data center managers and virtualization admins who would like to do at least part of their work on an iPad. VMware on March 18 announced a new SpringSource-developed vSphere Client for the iPad and made it available for immediate download at the Apple App Store. Using this new […]

Sudden thought during Hewlett-Packard’s Summit event March 14 to announce new market strategy and introduce new CEO Leo Apotheker: The very first IT-specific feature he mentioned during his introductory presentation was data deduplication. Should we read anything into that? Apotheker (his name is pronounced “LAY-oh appo-TECKER”) began by talking about seamless connectivity, “everybody on,” and […]