Chris Preimesberger

In the latest cloud-services consolidation move, Internet content security software provider Trend Micro revealed June 11 that it is acquiring Humyo.com, a 3-year-old, privately held online storage and data synchronization company.Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.Humyo, pronounced hew-MY-oh, offers an online file storage service that automatically synchronizes a user’s files across multiple computers and […]

Everything Is Connected in the Digital Home of the Future by Chris Preimesberger Lighting It All Up This model of a future “all-connected” residence shows that all the lighting, heating, security, appliances, entertainment, food and water storage—in other words, just about everything of note in the home—is connected to a central server and able to […]

SANTA CLARA, Calif. — In the not-too-distant future, you’ll be hard-pressed to find any device in your residence that isn’t able to be controlled from some other location.Yes, we are referring to those connected toasters and refrigerators that have been talked about for more than a decade. But we’re also talking about remote control security […]

Here’s quite a concept: getting a head’s up on a disk drive before it conks out and leaves you high and dry. Acronis on June 10 released a new, freely downloadable disk monitoring tool called Acronis Drive Monitor. This software is sorely needed; it brings attention to problems under the covers of a PC or […]

Amazon Web Services, which had the online storage market largely to itself back in 2006 and 2007 but is seeing a lot of new competitors, is spiffing up the data transfer apparatus for its Simple Storage Service.Amazon.com on June 10 launched AWS Import/Export for S3 to accelerate data transfers and migrations.AWS Import/Export speeds up the […]

Cisco Systems, the world’s largest IT networking company, has famously been moving into the data center systems business the last couple of years. But what a lot of people don’t realize is that Cisco is also getting deeper into network storage for small and medium-size businesses.Cisco quietly introduced its first storage hardware products, the NSS2000 […]

Dell, keeping a literal open mind about all things data center, June 9 introduced a bevy of new open-standards servers, storage and networking equipment for older enterprise IT systems that might need refreshing. The Round Rock, Texas-based hardware and software maker unveiled two new Dell EqualLogic storage arrays, two PowerVault storage arrays, two PowerEdge blade […]

Compellent’s annual C-Drive users’ conference took place last month in Minneapolis, Minn. [The Station was honored to moderate a panel discussion at the 2008 event.] Each year, Compellent polls attendees on everything ranging from unstructured data growth and virtualization to data recovery and efficiency. Here are some of the results: –51 percent of customers said […]

Deduplication for primary enterprise storage just received a major shot in the arm.High-performance enterprise storage software provider Permabit Technology, which supplies a spate of companies that include IBM, Hewlett-Packard and CA, on June 7 started shipping a new data optimization package to its OEMs called Albireo, which features Tier 1 deduplication.Deduplication, clearly the most in-demand […]

Exactly six months after signing a three-year development alliance that tightened up a 10-year-long partnership, NetApp and Microsoft June 8 announced the first new products and services resulting from that agreement.The two companies announced that IT managers now can utilize their standard Microsoft management tools to monitor and manage virtual environments that include NetApp storage […]

Congratulations to Spectra Logic for completing 30 years in business. Not an easy thing to attain in any sector, IT or otherwise. The Colorado-based enterprise tape library company announced June 7 that it is moving into a new market by shipping LTO-5 [Linear Tape Open] drives and LTO-5 media cartridges in its T-Series libraries. Quantum, […]

10 Essential Questions to Ask Before You Upgrade a Storage System by Chris Preimesberger Does the system youre considering reduce the costs of storage? Researcher IDC and others have reported that storage costs can represent anywhere from 30 percent to 50 percent of a company’s total IT hardware expenditure. That’s huge. Many products—from the low […]