Chris Preimesberger

EMC, the 8,000-pound gorilla of the independent storage providers, has added a new feature to its catalog that clears up I/O bottlenecks within storage systems. The Hopkinton, Mass.-based corporation has licensed next-generation software from storage optimization provider Aspera that enables digital assets to move through its pipes at improved speeds. Emeryville, Calif.-based Aspera’s core transfer […]

IBM said Aug. 5 that it has joined up with the Aetna insurance company’s health IT division, ActiveHealth Management, to launch a new cloud-based patient-records service for physicians and extended-care providers. Dubbed Collaborative Care, the service gathers and presents patients’ health data from multiple sources to create a detailed, up-to-date record that can be updated […]

Database and application management provider Quest Software revealed Aug. 3 that it is entering the private cloud software market by acquiring virtualization management specialist Surgient. Quest said it expects the deal to be competed by the end of September. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. The addition of Surgient’s intellectual property will put Quest […]

When networking king Cisco Systems officially entered the full-service data center systems market on March 16, 2009, with the launch of its Unified Computing System, it jumped into a pool of sharks named IBM, Hewlett-Packard, Dell, Fujitsu and Sun Microsystems (now Oracle).Plus, it took a major risk in opening a whole new field of business […]

The Station feels for the Massachusetts hospital that recently lost 800,000 highly sensitive patient and employee records, but in this new age of easily transportable data storage, this should never happen. South Shore Hospital in South Weymouth, Mass., reported last week that it is investigating the loss of 800,000 backup files containing personal, health and […]

VMware’s ESX hypervisor and its vCenter control suite are thought to be operating in more than 80 percent of all enterprise IT systems. And some IT people believe that number is too conservative. Microsoft’s Hyper-V, still getting its bearings in the market, is growing in use but its market share is still mired in the […]

Three months after taking over leadership of storage optimization startup Virtual Instruments, CEO John Thompson-for 9 years CEO of Symantec-has mapped out the path his company is going to be taking for the next few years. As virtualization continues to become more prominent in IT production systems, Thompson also knows he’s charting a passage through […]

As had been rumored for months, IBM on July 29 added another storage-related company to its acquisition list-its fourth in three years-with the announcement that it will buy storage optimization specialist Storwize. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. With the deal, IBM in effect answers a similar move by another Tier 1 storage hardware […]

Symantec, which provides storage management and security software for IT systems, bucked a trend of sorts on July 28 when it reported plateaued financial results for its fiscal first quarter of 2010. Symantec reported revenue for the fiscal first quarter of $1.43 billion, which is flat when compared with the same period a year ago. […]

Dell, already a go-to IT vendor for a great many small and midsize businesses, on July 28 introduced some new network and endpoint security appliances for SMBs co-developed with OEM partner Juniper Networks. The Dell-branded Unified Threat Management product line for network security centers on the new Dell J-SRX Gateway, a do-it-all appliance that plugs […]

Fibre Channel over Ethernet got another boost July 28 from three front-line IT companies. Cisco Systems, NetApp and VMware jointly announced July 28 that they have made ready for prime time a new fully certified, end-to-end FCOE storage package for VMware virtual environments. The package contains VMware-validated Cisco Nexus 5000 Series Switches and NetApp FAS-series […]

NTT America wants a piece of the increasingly active cloud storage market. On July 26, the company launched a new online service called Cloud Files, a cloud-based backup and archiving package protected by enterprise-level security that includes encryption. Cloud Files uses a standard pay-as-you-go subscription model for its enterprise-level features, such as SAS 70 Type […]