Chris Preimesberger

Intel Labs said May 3 that it has come up with a way to reuse and/or reconfigure commodity-type servers and cluster them in such a way as to turn them into data center routers.Intel researchers, led by Gianluca Iannaccone and Sylvia Ratnasamy, have coined the phrase “router bricks” for the reused servers, which are designed […]

A prominent IT researcher forecast May 3 that the hard-disk storage industry will be building and selling products at an unprecedented pace during the next five years. In fact, the world hard drive industry is predicted to deliver more than 300,000 petabytes of storage capacity through 2015 — mostly to enterprise data centers and cloud […]

Imation, best known for its economical consumer-oriented optical and flash products for offline storage, has reinforced the security apparatus for most of its product line.The Oakdale, Minn.-based company, one of the world’s most diverse data storage providers, unveiled on April 30 a set of secure layers for products that range from external hard drives to […]

Financially troubled Novell, which recently rejected a $2 billion takeover bid by a hedge fund but apparently is still listening to buyout offers at the right stock price, had some better news April 29.The IT networking and middleware provider has struck a deal with telecommunications giant Verizon to provide on-demand, cloud-based secure-access services for its […]

Smartphone maker Palm, which wasn’t able to find a way to outflank Apple and its phenomenally selling iPhone during the last nine years, has decided to make a graceful exit by accepting a $1.2 billion buyout offer from Hewlett-Packard.Palm sold only 408,000 phones last quarter; in contrast, Apple sold 8.7 million iPhones in the same […]

Long-suffering smartphone maker Palm finally may have found a financial savior. Hewlett-Packard, the world’s second-largest IT systems provider, announced in a teleconference April 28 that it has agreed to purchase the struggling smartphone maker for $1.2 billion in cash on hand, or about $5.70 per share.The offered purchase price amounts to about a 23 percent […]

Barracuda Networks, which makes highly secure storage arrays aimed at small and midsize businesses, said April 27 it has upgraded its message archiving apparatus to include all Microsoft Exchange functionality.Barracuda’s Message Archiver now can archive calendar items, contacts and tasks from Exchange and is the first appliance-based package to deliver all this capability, Product Manager […]

Compellent, a progressive-thinking data storage company that was an early mover to the idea of providing unified connectivity, on April 27 launched the first network-attached system based entirely on the open-source Zettabyte File System.The 128-bit ZFS, which numerous storage network developers have described as extraordinarily fast, is an in-demand open-source software package for handling unstructured […]

Funny, The Station had thought the floppy disk was put to sleep back in the early days of the George Dubya Bush administration. Guess not. Sony, apparently a laggard among IT-related vendors, announced April 26 that it has decided to stop making the little 3.5-inch square, plastic-encased disks that actually are not floppy at all […]

Dell is bound and determined to expand its horizons into the wild and wide-open world of data center software management. It’s already involved in producing a cloud storage appliance, and it recently acquired Kace to handle all of its application virtualization needs.The world’s best-selling IT hardware manufacturer co-announced a deal April 26 with enterprise management […]

A couple of IT giants have decided to maintain their like-dislike relationship, at least for another five years.EMC on April 26 revealed the extension and expansion of a licensing agreement with IBM, first signed in 2006, which will continue to enable data center customers who have production elements from both companies to deploy EMC storage […]