Chris Preimesberger

EMC is making a habit of beating analysts’ earnings estimates.On July 21, the world’s largest independent storage and data security vendor posted record Q2 revenue of $4.02 billion, a 24 percent increase from the same period a year ago.EMC’s three-month revenue exceeded an estimate of $3.98 billion by an aggregation of analysts. It was the […]

Virtualization software market leader VMware, which wasn’t affected all that much by the 2008 and 2009 global economy setbacks, reported July 20 that its second-quarter 2010 net income more than doubled over the same period a year ago.Net income for the Palo Alto, Calif.-based company rocketed to $74.5 million — or 18 cents per share […]

Dell, continuing to bring innovative young companies into its realm, revealed late on July 19 that it acquiring San Jose, Calif.-based storage deduplication software provider Ocarina Networks. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.Ocarina brings second-generation deduplication capability to bundle inside Dell’s EqualLogic storage product line, which is aimed primarily at unstructured data in midrange […]

OpSource is certainly not alone as an IT company that may not be easily understood by a large number of people and, thus, by potential customers.CEO Treb Ryan is objective enough to know this and is determined to make clarifications if and when necessary.The Santa Clara, Calif.-based enterprise cloud services and managed hosting provider July […]

EMC keeps moving right along in developing the technology it acquired with Data Domain. It’s also putting Intel’s Xeon multicore processors to work for the first time.On July 19, the storage and security giant introduced a new midrange deduplication storage system from its Data Domain division-the DD670-along with a new disk library and a deduplication […]

Having pretty much conquered the world of data center virtualization software for the present time, VMware now wants the IT galaxy to view it as more than simply an important middleware provider.It wants to be seen as two new things: a first-rank cloud computing platform provider and a vendor that can serve all three business […]

SAN FRANCISCO-Since IBM already has the nickname Big Blue, its newest enterprise systems competitor, Oracle, is now staking out its own visual identity: It wants to be known as the Red Stack.“I hope it [Oracle] isn’t using red because of the rumored bleeding,” one Silicon Valley corporate executive joked to eWEEK, referring to the financial […]

17 Promising Storage Companies Flying Under the Radar by Chris Preimesberger AutoVirt, Nashua, N.H. AutoVirt, short for automated virtualization, provides file virtualization software for migrating and consolidating unstructured Windows data storage networks. AutoVirt virtualizes access to networked files and has a data management platform for migrating, consolidating, replicating, archiving or tiering storage across physical devices. […]

VMware on July 13 came out with a new version of its mainline vSphere virtualization platform that is aimed directly at cloud computing in markets it wants to penetrate more effectively: the small and midsize business sector. VMware already has deployments in nearly 90 percent of the Fortune 1000 companies and in many other large […]

As Microsoft moves more of its business into the data center, it is making more partner friends and deepening relationships with current partners. It has to; a well-organized and productive data center is nothing but a well-put together partnership. All those servers, all that complicated networking, the virtualization layer, the storage arrays, and the management […]

Fujitsu Massively Expands Data Center Co-location Capacity by Chris Preimesberger Clean and Spacious Fujitsu’s upgraded and spacious data center sports wide aisles, 24x7x365 security, and floor and ceiling cooling apparatus, among numerous other features. All the switches for a section of server rows are housed in the rack at the right side of the photo. […]

The market for the toaster-sized, desktop-seated home storage network device appears to be heating up. Competing with similar recent releases from Seagate Technology, Cisco Systems, Rebit and several other companies, Netgear on July 12 announced that it has upgraded its ReadyNAS storage line to include the capacity and compatible software to store and stream high-definition […]