Chris Preimesberger

Iron Mountain Digital announced Jan. 31 at the LegalTech East Conference in New York that it has upgraded its relatively new enterprise e-discovery suite.The Boston-based data security company, now in its 60th year of business, released enhancements to two key components of its Enterprise Discovery Suite with Iron Mountain Legal Discovery 10.0 and Iron Mountain […]

Now that all the major IT products and services vendors are busy selling their various cloud-building hardware/software/services packages, the differentiation between platforms is really starting to kick in.One of those major providers, VMware, came out Jan. 31 and claimed that it can get a company up and running with its own private cloud system in […]

It’s been a full year since Oracle closed its $7.4 billion deal to acquire Sun Microsystems and all its hardware businesses, but it’s still a little strange to see news about new Oracle data center hardware. The world’s second-largest business software maker on Jan. 31 launched a powerful new StorageTek tape system that it claims […]

Sepaton, which is making storage pooling an increasingly well-known feature of new-generation storage tech, this week released its next-generation (version 6.0) storage software, which powers storage pools in its new S2100-ES2 Series 1910/2910 systems.The new platform features gridlike scalability, multiprotocol support and fast deduplication, Sepaton’s new vice president of marketing, Greg Mancusi-Ungaro, told eWEEK.The Marlboro, […]

Pano Logic, which specializes in a variation of desktop virtualization called “zero client,” has released Pano System 4, a next-generation device designed to replace PCs and thin clients with server-side software that can support the three major hypervisor platforms.The Pano client, a small chrome, black or dark green box that resembles a 3.5-inch-square by 2-inch-high […]

A year ago, data backup, recovery and archive provider Quantum updated its entire frontline DXi storage hardware line. On Jan. 26, the company followed up by rolling out faster software to run the disk backup and deduplication products. DXi-Series arrays switching over to the new v2.0 software will see their performance increased by up to […]

MENLO PARK, Calif. — Whenever a survey, whitepaper or other industry research comes out evaluating cloud computing, most of the attributes of this trend-setting style of IT receive a ton of praise. However, if there is a hesitation on a potential customer’s part about investing capital into such a system, the No. 1 point of […]

Following in line with its projection of a continued surge in NAND flash memory sales in 2011, market analyst IHS iSuppli reported Jan. 27 that dynamic RAM demand is expected to explode by a factor of more than nine in 2011.This news, if it bears out, comes at a good time for worldwide DRAM producers. […]

In its fiscal third-quarter earnings report on Jan. 26, data protection provider Symantec had some good news and some not-so-good news: It reported a 4 percent increase in its overall revenue but also that its profit margin slipped 56 percent from a year ago.Nonetheless, the company’s quarterly earnings per share (17 cents) exceeded Wall Street […]

Hewlett-Packard has launched a plethora of cloud-based IT packages during the last three years. These include such diverse offerings as cloud-based management for smartphones, a hosted business-application service (Cloud Assure), and cloud-based mobile-printing services, among others.On Jan. 25, HP added to that catalog of IT products and services some new hybrid cloud packages, which come […]

SAN FRANCISCO — IBM, as it customarily does when it develops a new product, took its time in finding the right in-house technologies and outside partners to put together its own virtual desktop package. Big Blue collected all the required ingredients and simmered them with quality assurance testing and best practices for nearly two years. […]

EMC keeps breaking earnings records-quarter after quarter after quarter.The data-storage, security and cloud-management-software provider on Jan. 25 reported a pair of accounting trifectas: record consolidated revenue, net income and free cash flow for both the fourth quarter and for 2010 in its entirety.In Q4 2010, EMC’s consolidated revenue, which includes revenue from all its affiliates, […]