Chris Preimesberger

Despite a published report Aug. 27 suggesting that Microsoft and Citrix Systems might be skipping VMworld, held Aug. 31 to Sept. 3 in San Francisco, both companies told eWEEK that they will have booths at the conference, which is expected to attract about 200 vendors and more than 11,000 V-curious folks.Microsoft with its Hyper-V and […]

This apparently is New Product Week in the data storage business. Spectra Logic on Aug. 25 joined EMC/Dell, IBM/LSI and NetApp in unveiling new systems for the midrange market, by far the fast-growing segment of the IT.Each of the new releases offers a slightly different feature set, connectivity options and service-level choices. And not all […]

LSI, which supplies IBM with a high percentage of storage products that Big Blue rebrands as its System Storage line, Aug. 25 launched its own branded version of a second-generation storage system for midrange and small to medium-size businesses.The Engenio 4900 storage system features both 8G-bps Fibre Channel and 1G-bps iSCSI host interfaces, a modular […]

13 Common Data Storage Failures and How Likely the Files Can Be Recovered by Chris Preimesberger Human error (file deletion, formatting a hard drive etc., The the most common way files are lost): Good probability of recovery. Computer viruses: Good probability of recovery. Software files corruption (database file gets corrupt because of a software glitch): […]

Sometimes it appears as though the large storage manufacturers quietly plan behind the scenes to launch new products at the same time.On Aug. 25, a day when several other major storage makers (EMC, Dell, NetApp, LSI and Spectra Logic) came out with new storage offerings for midrange enterprises, IBM launched its System Storage DS5020 Express, […]

NetApp, which has long specialized in networked storage platforms-the very foundations of cloud computing-on Aug. 25 clarified its go-to-market cloud computing strategy, and it is very partner-centric.The company also introduced its Data OnTap 8 platform, which serves as its cloud computing package for data centers. And it has rounded up an impressive list of partners […]

EMC and Dell, like peas in a pod when it comes to disk-based enterprise storage, came out with connected announcements Aug. 25.Item No.1: EMC has powered up its midrange Clariion storage arrays for 10 Gigabit Ethernet connectivity and made the product line’s software more VMware-friendly. This is logical, considering that EMC owns VMware.Clariion arrays, aimed […]

Blame it on the world’s overall data explosion if you want, but companies that help all those gazillions of data bits move faster through the myriad channels they must navigate are coming to the fore. Along those lines, wide area network optimization specialist Silver Peak Systems revealed Aug. 24 that it has been issued a […]

Pillar Data Systems is taking an idea that has worked effectively for the Obama administration and the automobile industry and trying it out on the data storage sector. Pillar Data, which makes highly virtualized, intelligent storage architecture that runs on commodity-type arrays, Aug. 21 launched what it calls the “Cash for Storage Clunkers Program,” which […]

In the wake of the Aug. 20 news that the U.S. Department of Justice has cleared the government path for Oracle’s acquisition of Sun Microsystems to be completed later this fall, analysts are weighing in on whether the $7.4 billion transaction will weather a challenge from another prominent regulatory agency: The European Commission.The Brussels-based EC […]

Four months to the day after Oracle CEO and co-founder Larry Ellison announced Oracle’s intent to acquire longtime enterprise IT partner Sun Microsystems for $7.4 billion, the U.S. Department of Justice on Aug. 20 officially sanctioned the deal as not threatening to break federal antitrust laws.The DOJ, the highest-ranking law enforcement agency in the United […]

Network storage provider NetApp made news on two fronts on Aug. 19: It reported earnings for the first quarter of its fiscal year 2010 and made a change at the top in its daily operations. President and Chief Operating Officer Tom Georgens (pictured) has been elevated to president and CEO. Longtime CEO and Chairman of […]