Chris Preimesberger

Nexenta Systems introduced an upgrade to its frontline NexentaStor enterprise package March 2 that includes the Sun Microsystems-developed Zettabyte File System (ZFS) and Virtual Machine Datacenter 3.0, a new version of the Nexenta virtualization management platform.The Mountain View, Calif.-based company made the announcement at the international CeBIT 2010 electronics-products conference in Hannover, Germany.A significant new […]

Western Digital, which recently shortened its corporate identity to WD, said March 3 that it has begun shipping its first line of consumer-oriented SATA (serial ATA) solid-state drives.WD said that the new 2.5-inch SiliconEdge Blue drives use a native 3G-bps SATA interface to perform at a sustained read speed of 250MB per second, compared with […]

Networking software maker Novell confirmed late March 2 that it has received an unsolicited offer of $1 billion, net of cash on the company’s books, to be acquired by Elliott Associates, a New York-based hedge fund that already owns 8.5 percent of the company. The statement issued by Novell’s corporate marketing manager, Ian Bruce, read: […]

As the world’s Olympic athletes move out of their village in Vancouver, B.C., the day after the closing ceremonies of the 2010 Winter Games, they take with them a lot of great memories — whether or not they won medals. Now, many of them can forget about training for a while and take a well-deserved […]

As data storage gets more sophisticated, with intelligent tiering, automatic deduplication and other eminently useful features, some vendors are beginning to fine-tune their storage products for use in specific vertical markets such as health care and finance.For example, Iron Mountain on March 1 revealed a newly upgraded version of its cloud storage service specifically for […]

HP Unveils New ProBook Notebooks and EliteBook Business Tablets by Chris Preimesberger HPs EliteBook 2540p Notebook and Twist-Top EliteBook 2740p Tablet The 12.1-inch EliteBook 2540p notebook (left) and the multitouch, twist-top EliteBook 2740p Tablet are cousins in that they are about the same size and have many of the same options. But the 2740p, thanks […]

Hewlett-Packard has been busier than usual rolling out laptops and notebooks the last few months. On March 1, the company introduced its new ProBook S-series, its third such product launch since October 2009.Overall, the chief characteristics of each of the launches are what one might expect: added power and storage; stronger, lighter bodies (thanks to […]

Torrance, Calif.-based Active Storage, which specializes in storage for Apple systems, has come out with a new version of its iPhone app that monitors their Apple Xserve-optimized RAID arrays. Active Viewer 1.1 enables storage managers to monitor their high-performance Active Storage RAID systems worldwide directly from their iPhones. [Please note: It doesn’t monitor other brands […]

RSA’s Security Decoded conference opens in San Francisco’s Moscone Center March 1, and RSA President Art Coviello will be giving his keynote address bright and early on the morning of March 2. Coviello is always good for a prognostication or two-or more. This year he’ll be talking about key trends he sees, including this one: […]

Nine Reasons Enterprises Should Run Their Apps in the Cloud by Chris Preimesberger The handling of big data needs a new approach because it breaks the old model. Existing approaches are challenged with petabyte scale. Quantities of all kinds of data are exploding, but machine-generated data [log files, sensor data, etc.] is already massive and […]

Eighteen months ago, disk and tape storage maker Overland Storage was facing several serious business challenges.It had just bought the popular Snap Server franchise for $3.6 million from Adaptec at the beginning of what was to become a worldwide recession. Tape wasn’t selling all that well, a top-level management change was in the works and […]

No one has to tell you that business continuity in the Web-centric world — especially involving virtualized systems — is all-important. We’ve all heard the horror stories of companies shut down for only a couple of weeks by disasters or other events that fall by the wayside and never get back in the race again. […]