Chris Preimesberger

At its biannual conference in Dallas, the Storage Networking Industry Association Oct. 12 unveiled its Green Storage Initiative Emerald program, which eventually will lead to the release of SNIA’s Emerald Power Efficiency Measurement Specification.This is similar to other data center standardization efforts already in play, such as those in operation by the Green Grid’s Data […]

Quest Software, which is beginning to make its presence felt in the storage backup and disaster recovery service business, announced Oct. 12 at VMworld Europe in Copenhagen, Denmark, that it has released a new version of its vRanger software package for SMBs. vRanger Standard Edition 5.0 integrates with existing production servers and enterprise applications to […]

16 Hot Companies Running Under the Radar by Chris Preimesberger Coraid Next-Generation Storage Coraid EtherDrive offers a complete rewrite of old-generation storageware. It consists of a flexible tier of high-performance scale-out storage that eschews most of the hardware (controllers, routers, cabling) that fills up conventional systems because??íthe software takes care of everything. Coraid claims to […]

Storage networking provider QLogic on Oct. 7 came out with a new 10GbE converged networking product line that enables network admins to use any one– or a combination–of various data center protocols to get workloads done. The new group of products, codenamed 3GCNA, is based on Gen 3 of QLogic’s Network Plus architecture and features […]

Mobile Devices, Apps Turned Heads on CTIA Show Floor by Chris Preimesberger MobiTV MobiTV for BlackBerry OS 6.0 was released for the BlackBerry Torch device in August. Its new interface allows users to search and find specific content quickly. Users also can store shows if they choose to do so. LG Lotus Elite The Lotus […]

Hewlett-Packard continued to realign its top-drawer corporate leadership Oct. 6 when it announced that 3PAR President and CEO David Scott is returning to take charge of its StorageWorks division. Only a week earlier, the huge IT company hired former SAP CEO Leo Apotheker as its new CEO, succeeding Mark Hurd. Because he served as sole […]

Another major software vendor has made a move to update its catalog to include new tools for building private cloud systems. Business service management and automation software provider BMC on Oct. 5 acquired the software business of Neptuny, an Italian-based provider of capacity management and information technology performance optimization software. Terms of the transaction were […]

PALO ALTO, Calif.-Facebook has launched three new applications it says will give its 500 million users greater control over the mountains of personal data they have posted over the years on the social networking site. The world’s largest social network, currently the subject of a best-selling movie, launched Oct. 6 the three new applications: Download […]

Novell, troubled by nagging financial issues and going through a change of ownership, nonetheless has been making news. At VMworld, the company unveiled its first cloud computing platform, Novell Cloud Manager, one that a non-IT person can deploy by following instructions and not having to write any code. Later, it was reported that Novell is […]

CommVault isn’t one of those storage companies that prefers to talk about what it’s going to do in a road map discussion. It does things first, then talks about them. The storage software maker quietly has been working for 24 months on its frontline Simpana 9 system and released it on Oct. 5. That part […]

To anybody who’s in even the slightest “know” about cloud computing, this won’t be a surprise at all. But it is interesting to view evidence of what we in the media — along with scores of analysts — are all seeing on a daily basis. Remember all that hogwash about cloud computing being just another […]

10 Ways Automation Bolsters Security, Efficiency in Enterprise Data Centers by Chris Preimesberger EnsuresProperSecurity With business process orchestration, organizations can be sure that proper security measures and processes are in place. For example, mobile devices??íalways present significant security risks. Having automated security processes in place??ífor data movement among all employees is??íimportant??íin securing the entire??íorganization.??í Prepares […]