Chris Preimesberger

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, charged with seeing that enterprise IT devices such as servers and storage arrays become more environmentally friendly by using less electrical power, announced June 7 that it is extending its Energy Star program to include entire data centers. Stand-alone data centers and buildings that house large data centers now can […]

Following last week’s upbeat market report on storage hardware sales, IDC came out June 7 with a similarly positive report on storage software.In its Worldwide Quarterly Storage Software Tracker, the research company said the worldwide storage software market experienced solid growth in the first quarter, with revenues of $3 billion, amounting to 7.2 percent growth […]

Did Oracle CEO and co-founder Larry Ellison underestimate how many of Sun Microsystems’ 27,600 employees might lose their jobs in the acquisition of Sun concluded in January?Oracle filed an 8-K affidavit with the federal Securities and Exchange Commission late June 4 stating that it needs to spend more money and take a much larger charge […]

The industry market news was very good this week. Gartner came out with its quarterly storage industry market report June 4, and the double-digit, up-and-to-the-right numbers map pretty well with with IDC had earlier in the day. Gartner, which doesn’t break the markets down in exactly the same way, said that worldwide external controller-based disk […]

It looks like the recession of the last two years may be in the rear-view mirror for the data storage business.Industry analyst IDC said June 4 in its Quarterly Disk Storage Systems Tracker that worldwide external disk storage systems factory revenues totaled $5 billion and posted a robust year-over-year growth of 17.1 percent in the […]

SAN FRANCISCO-Sony Ericsson’s new CTO, Jan Uddenfeldt, told a group of industry executives June 3 that the 4G mobile broadband market is “exploding” at this time and that the powerful protocol will be in regular use worldwide sooner than many people think. Uddenfelt, named to the job June 2 after spending more than 20 years […]

How Netbooks Are Fighting Back Against the Tablets by Chris Preimesberger Welcome to the First-Ever Netbook Summit Key sponsors and exhibitors at the first Netbook Summit May 24-25 at the Grand Hyatt in Burlingame, Calif., included usual suspects Dell, Toshiba, AMD, Nvidia and Samsung. Toshiba mini NB305 This little Energy Star-compliant netbook packs a lot […]

It’s been about five months since Oracle took over Sun Microsystems, but it still is strange to report that the world’s third-largest software company is producing IT hardware products.Yet another indicator that the long-awaited trend toward the widespread adoption of desktop virtualization may finally be happening, Oracle on June 2 introduced the Sun Ray 3 […]

CUPERTINO, Calif.-Hewlett-Packard, during a June 2 press conference introducing a new set of data center products for small and midrange business systems, also revealed that it is now selling support for a unified computing, collaboration and communications system aimed at SMBs.HP has joined forces with Microsoft (which will supply the collaboration and database software) and […]

Not very often does storage and data protection news emanate from the neighborhood around the Arctic Circle, but it did today. Norway-based High Density Devices said June 4 it is shipping a new adapter for SATA (serial ATA) hard drives that enables automatic encryption of stored data. In fact, the adapter can be used with […]

Champagne glasses were undoubtedly clinking June 1 at Western Digital’s Lake Forest, Calif. main campus.Western Digital, which now prefers to be called WD, for the first time moved past perennial market champion Seagate Technology into first place in number of hard drives sold during one quarter, according to market numbers reported June 1 by iSuppli.WD […]

Savvis, a rising international provider of enterprise cloud infrastructure and hosted IT services, on June 1 revealed that it is acquiring Fusepoint, an independent provider of managed IT and colocation services to enterprises based in Canada, for $124.5 million in cash. Fusepoint, a portfolio company of M/C Venture Partners, operates three data centers in Toronto, […]