Chris Preimesberger

Sixteen-year Xerox veteran Steve Hoover was introduced Jan. 11 as the new chief executive officer of the company’s Palo Alto Research Center. Hoover’s appointment follows previous CEO Mark Bernstein’s retirement from PARC. Bernstein had held the position for 31 years, guiding the think tank through its formative years and to its incorporation as a wholly […]

Latest Compact Storage Devices Make Plenty of News at CES by Chris Preimesberger Corsair SSDs with Marvell Controllers Corsair Performance 3 Series solid-state drives combine the latest Marvell controller and supercharged synchronous NAND to eliminate bottlenecks and provide the serious 6G-bps SATA III bandwidth for high-end video and graphics. Seagate GoFlex for Mac OS Seagate […]

Chip makers Intel and Nvidia, which in recent years have been on edge regarding gray areas in patent licensing, have resolved their 2-year-old legal dispute about whether Nvidia can develop and manufacture chip sets for Intel processors based on the company’s multicore microarchitecture.In resolving the litigation in Chancery Court in Wilmington, Del., the two Santa […]

Several key IT researchers already have reported that global and U.S. IT spending in 2011 is expected to increase modestly over that of 2010, thanks to an uptick in the general ecomony. Now some storage-specific market research is coming to the fore. CommVault on Jan. 10 released the results of its IT Storage Spending Survey, […]

Virtual desktop and thin-client manufacturers have been banging promotion drums about their products for more than a decade, yet they haven’t seen optimal sales numbers. That finally may be changing in 2011.In just the last year or so, a number of longtime VDI (virtual desktop infrastructure) skeptics have come around to admitting that the time […]

Canada-based and generically named Storage Appliance Corp., which makes the Clickfree automated desktop personal storage devices, launched a new wireless-enabled, portable backup drive for Windows PCs or Macs at the International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. The new Clickfree machine, cleverly called the Wireless Portable Backup Drive, backs up files from various computers in […]

Few people outside the inner core of Facebook leadership really know much about the income, profits and cash flow of the world’s largest and most successful social network, but that will soon change. The Wall Street Journal reported Jan. 6 that the Palo Alto, Calif.-based Web services network will be required by federal securities law […]

Network and direct-attached storage maker Buffalo Technology Jan. 6 released a new line of relatively low-cost, terabyte-capacity desktop and rack-mount network storage drives at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.Buffalo’s TeraStation Pro storage packages, aimed at small and midsize businesses and home offices, are comprised of the TeraStation Pro Duo, Pro Quad, Pro Rackmount, […]

The FBI apparently trusts Hewlett-Packard and a few other IT companies to keep its secrets.HP’s Enterprise Services division on Jan. 6 announced that the Federal Bureau of Investigation has selected the Palo Alto, Calif.-based IT giant as one of its prime contractors to provide new IT hardware, software and services from 2011 through 2019.The selection […]

Toshiba America Electronic Components came out Jan. 6 with some new secure digital memory cards and solid-state SATA (serial ATA) drives at the International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. The independent division of Toshiba, the Tokyo-based IT giant, now is using the acronym TAEC, which is dangerously close to causing confusion with consumer audio […]

Sometime later this year there will be a new industry credential for IT, data center and storage administration professionals to add to their resumes and frame for their office walls — provided they can qualify for it, of course. IT industry advocacy group CompTIA and the Storage Networking Industry Association announced Jan. 5 that they […]

Western Digital, which released the first 3TB-capacity internal SATA hard disk drive nine weeks ago, Jan. 5 announced that it has started shipping a new 2.5-inch, 750GB SATA hard drive for OEMs that make high-performance laptops and portable storage devices. WD’s Scorpio Black drives, speedier than most current HHDs at 7200 RPM, includes 16MB of […]