Chris Preimesberger

VMware reported another highly profitable financial quarter after the New York Stock Exchange bell Oct. 18, and even though its results exceeded Wall Street expectations, its stock price took a sharp 6.6 percent hit in after-hours trading.VMware was selling for just under $73 at 5:30 p.m. EDT Oct. 18, down from $78.35 at the 4 […]

It was only about two years ago that deploying a 250GB portable storage drive the size of a standard hardback novel was pretty much the state of the art in the personal desktop storage sector.Even though those machines generally served their purposes, their time has come and gone. The form factors and the ever-increasing demand […]

NetGear, which makes desktop video storage devices and rack-mounted storage and networking equipment but now aims to be a player in the cloud sector, on Oct. 14 came out with three hybrid cloud storage service options for its business customers.The company is now including up to 100GB of online archive capacity to go with the […]

EMC Iomega had news Oct. 15 that might be a forecast of things to come in the personal storage business–but probably not for a few years. Iomega started shipping a new, host-powered external 1.8-inch USB 3.0 SSD flash-based storage drive with built-in encryption that could spell the beginning of the end for spinning-disk portable drives […]

E-discovery and information governance are two subsets of data storage that are fast climbing the charts in importance to enterprises. Why? Because keeping track of all that fast-multiplying data for legal and regulatory reasons gains more importance daily as everything pours in and piles up. Upstart Digital Reef makes products for both of these hot […]

San Diego, Calif.-based Overland Storage added a good way to scale out its existing storage platform Oct. 14 when it announced the acquisition of MaxiScale, which makes what it calls “limitlessly scalable” file serving and storage software. Terms of the deal were not disclosed, but they rarely are in smaller transactions. Overland is adding MaxiScale’s […]

Brand Affinity Technologies, a startup in the advertising and online search businesses, has come up with a bold new type of Web search application that approaches things quite differently from the conventional list-of-links method. In addition, BAT announced Oct. 14 that it has established an open developer platform for the new search technology and a […]

Yahoo, one of the three busiest Websites in the world, was down for approximately 40 minutes on Oct. 14, from about 5:30 p.m. to 6:10 p.m. ET. Yahoo spokesperson Kryssa Guntrum gave eWEEK no specific reason for the outage. For an unspecified time, Yahoo’s home page simply displayed a plain text “Server Hangup” message in […]

Is Oracle indeed plotting to buy the world’s largest data protection and storage vendor, EMC? That’s the rumor, one restarted by a report from Citigroup analyst Walter Pritchard [referenced here in Eric Savitz’s Barron’s column], that went careening through the world’s business communication channels on Oct. 14.Yes, this one’s surfaced before, and yes, EMC’s stock […]

As it previewed in September at VMworld 2010 in San Francisco, VMware now has added new cloud computing products and services to its catalog, making the announcements at VMworld Europe in Copenhagen on Oct. 13. Not only that, but the company also is making it easier for customers to pay for virtual infrastructure services by […]

As amazing as it seems, EMC, the world’s largest independent data storage and protection company, really didn’t have a competitive data warehousing choice in its product portfolio until it bought Greenplum in July. That part of the market, which historically has belonged to Teradata-currently about 70 percent-and, to a lesser extent, Netezza (bought by IBM […]

IBM added some fresh intellectual property and expertise in the growing e-discovery space on Oct. 13 by acquiring PSS Systems, a privately held company based in Mountain View, Calif. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.PSS Systems’ Atlas software platform, designed for use by corporate counsel and IT management at large enterprises, enables companies […]