Chris Preimesberger

EMC’s Data Domain storage division came out April 12 with a speedy new inline deduplication storage system for enterprise backup applications. The numbers shout for themselves. Data Domain claims this new system, dubbed the Global Deduplication Array, is capable of backing up 12.8TB of data per hour (which computes to a 3.5G bps I/O rate), […]

For the first time, shoppers for additional disk-based storage will have a choice of buying portable drives already loaded with feature-length, DVD-quality movies. Seagate, the world’s largest hard disk drive maker, and Viacom’s Paramount Pictures announced April 12 that they have come together to offer a total of 21 movies preloaded on 500GB Seagate FreeAgent […]

Nexenta, a fast-rising provider of open storage software based on the Sun Microsystems-developed Zettabyte File System [ZFS], announced that Bill Moore, the co-creator of ZFS, has joined the Nexenta’s advisory board. Nothing like having the originator of your key tech engine sitting in your virtual meeting room whenever you need him. Looks like a pretty […]

At the Flash Memory Summit in August 2009, updates on several new technologies involving NAND flash were presented to conference attendees. One of them was given by Stan Williams, Hewlett-Packard senior fellow and director of Quantum Science Research, and it involved something called the “memristor,” a term condensed from “memory resistor.” On that day, Williams […]

Samsung Shows Why Thin Is In for Chips, Hard Drives, HD TVs by Chris Preimesberger Driving the Market Samsung is one of the few IT hardware suppliers that produces hard disk drives and NAND- and NOR-based flash drives along with DVD and Blu-ray optical drives. The company has refreshed its entire line for 2010 in […]

Kaviza. Remember that unusual name, because we’ll be writing about it often here at eWEEK. Kaviza, based in Sunnyvale, Calif., reminds me of “cabeza,” the Spanish word for “head.” But from now on, it should remind people of a new kind of desktop virtualization. Kaviza VDI-in-a-Box is a plug-and-play virtual desktop system that basically anyone […]

NetApp revealed April 7 that it will acquire Bycast, a privately held storage software maker, in an all-cash transaction. Other details of the deal were not made available.Bycast, based in Vancouver, B.C., develops object-based storage software that manages petabyte-scale, globally distributed repositories of images, video and records for enterprises.The company services about 250 enterprises worldwide. […]

SANTA CLARA, Calif.-Only a year ago, the idea of Microsoft showing cloud computing services at an event like SaaSCon would not have computed one bit.The world’s largest software company has been late to the party on a few things-the Internet being a classic example-but times and its corporate attitude have changed. They had to.Microsoft, whose […]

The term “prescient” means “perceiving the significance of events before they occur.” Take a look at this brief YouTube video, posted only a few days ago, to see someone’s very prescient, nearly right-on idea about the Internet — in 1969! The video, uploaded by YouTube itself but not credited to another individual, shows a lineup […]

Western Digital, which wants to be known as WD, on April 5 started shipping the fastest, most capacious 2.5-inch SATA hard disk drive it has ever made.At 600GB, the VelociRaptor VR200M doubles the capacity of the original version, which was released in 2008. A 450GB model is also available.With a faster spindle speed of 10,000 […]

The solid-state array business is starting to make some news here at the outset of Q2 2010. Toshiba, the company that invented flash memory and is second only to Korea’s Samsung in delivering flash to the market, announced that it is joining a group of companies in investing a cool $20 million in startup Violin […]

../images/stories/marten-mickos84dpi.jpgFormer MySQL CEO Marten Mickos told eWEEK April 5 that he has joined cloud software maker Eucalyptus Systems as its new CEO. Mickos, who has been working as an “entrepreneur in residence” at a Silicon Valley VC group for the last couple of years, was a key figure in guiding the open-source MySQL database into […]