Chris Preimesberger

NetApp on Nov. 17 reported a rather healthy 72 percent jump in quarterly profit — not revenue, mind you — profit. But the Sunnyvale, Calif.-based storage maker report caused a ruckus late in the day’s regular session after someone accessed a restricted section of the company Web site and released portions of the results about […]

When eWEEK comes out with its end-of-the-year data center/storage trends story next month, one of those trends will be something called “data retirement.”Not data deletion or data reduction, data erasure, data destroying or anything similar. Data and files can somehow reappear from all of those practices, but data retirement really does excise the unwanted/unneeded stuff […]

Seagate’s i365 subsidiary has a new package of products and services for channel resellers who find themselves having trouble selling cloud-related services because, well, they’re all out in the cloud and being sold by service providers. On Nov. 17, the online storage company launched its EVault Cloud-Connected Service Provider (CCSP) program. The package is housed […]

IT researcher Gartner reported Nov. 18 that most new data centers now being planned and built will have inherent efficiencies that will enable up to 300 percent growth in storage capacity and use 60 percent less floor space to do it.According to consistent reports from eWEEK industry and analyst sources, a large number of current […]

A couple of weeks after Cisco Systems and its virtual desktop/data center business partners VMware and EMC announced new support for their Vblock cloud systems, lead mover Cisco clarified its VDI strategy Nov. 16 by productizing its wide-ranging product set and giving the reference architecture a name that resembles a misordered Roman numeral. Cisco is […]

Silver Peak Systems, fast becoming a global player in the burgeoning data center-class wide area network (WAN) optimization world, Nov. 16 announced a new, souped-up version of its VRX-8 virtual appliance for data centers. The Santa Clara, Calif.-based company, which went into the financial black in 2009, is enjoying 70 percent year-over-year growth. In 2010, […]

Startup BridgeSTOR, carving its own niche by building upon the storage advances of the last few years, on Nov. 16 launched both itself and its first two products-rather plainly called Application Optimized Storage appliances.The new machines combine the most important current data reduction and storage optimization features-deduplication, compression and thin provisioning-that can be found as […]

Cache-based storage specialist Violin Memory on Nov. 16 unveiled vCACHE, a new solid-state array that the company claims has the first multi-terabyte capacity Network File System cache. vCACHE combines patented NFS caching software from Gear6 — a bankrupt storage company with progressive technology that Violin acquired earlier this year — and DRAM into Violin’s frontline […]

If it seems that Hitachi Global Storage Technologies is a little behind the curve in delivering SSDs to the enterprise data center, well, you’d be correct. Most of the other storage system makers have had them available as options to replace hard disk drives for months and/or even a few years. But Hitachi moves a […]

This is not what anyone would call big IT news, but when specific numbers become available on items like this, we suppose it’s good to have for the record. Billionaire Oracle CEO and co-founder Larry Ellison was listed Nov. 15 as the world’s second-highest-paid business leader, according to The Wall Street Journal’s latest CEO pay […]

EMC is preparing to launch yet another potential $1 billion-per-year business inside its already expansive corporate kingdom.In a deal that was hardly a secret within the industry, the world’s largest independent storage hardware/software maker on Nov. 15 announced it is acquiring Seattle-based network-attached storage (NAS) provider Isilon Systems for $2.25 billion, or $33.85 per stock […]

Back on Oct. 28, German enterprise application maker SAP admitted in a court document that it took corporate responsibility for copyright infringement involving its marketplace rival, Oracle-three and a half years after Oracle first brought the lawsuit.On Nov. 15, two weeks after the damages stage of the lawsuit started, SAP officially apologized in court for […]