Chris Preimesberger

Newcomer AccelOps announced it has launched what it claims is the industry’s “first all-in-one data center and IT service management package” for the midtier market. No hardware required: It can be delivered as either a virtual appliance or a Web service. Whether it’s the “first” may be arguable — especially by companies named CA, BMC, […]

10 Things You Probably Dont Know About Cloud Storage and Computing by Chris Preimesberger Using Public and Private Clouds Cloud computing isn’t meant to replace a company’s current infrastructure or help outsource its entire data center operations. Most enterprises take advantage of existing resources through a mix of public and private clouds. Utilizing overflow storage […]

The U.S. subsidiary of Germany’s largest software company, Software AG, announced July 13 that it will acquire German business process management consultant IDS Scheer for $21 per share.Software AG USA, based in Reston, Va., said that it has already agreed to buy out IDS Scheer’s two biggest shareholders-co-founders August-Wilhelm Scheer and Alexander Pocsay, who together […]

Hitachi Global Storage Technologies, known in the past only for its enterprise storage products, on July 13 launched three consumer products that put the company directly into a growing market that already includes Iomega, Seagate, Toshiba, Synology and Cisco Systems.The launch marks the first products resulting from the company’s acquisition of Fabrik in February 2009. […]

It’s possible you’ve never heard of Red Gate Software, based in Cambridge, England, but it has just released a backup software package specifically for SQL Server that you may want to know about — even if you’re not a database admin or storage manager. SQL Backup Pro 6 features improved “network resilience to recover interrupted […]

Industry analysts and vendors are predicting that solid-state disks for computing and storage are the wave of the future for laptop computers, and for a lot of reasons.As NAND flash capacities continue to get higher-Toshiba has a 512GB laptop available, and 1TB units are only months away-they become more and more useful for both business […]

Storage management software provider Acronis July 9 launched a new edition of its front-line product that includes a deduplication option.Backup & Recovery 10 enables the automation of backup and disaster recovery processes across physical and virtual environments, including physical to virtual migration capabilities, in a single software package.It has been redesigned for scalability and easier […]

eWEEK’s esteemed Labs team has come out with a close-up, slide show look at the DXi7500, Quantum’s flagship disk-based backup and data deduplication package. The slide show includes a look inside Quantum’s Colorado Springs, Colo., assembly facility, something you don’t get to see every day. There’s also a detailed product analysis and review just published […]

In the wake of what certainly had to be a crushing blow to NetApp’s strategic plans-not to mention its corporate ego-when EMC outbid it for Data Domain, the question remaining is this: What happens next for NetApp, the network-attached-storage pioneer that used to be known as simply a “good little file server maker”?“Regroup, don’t rush […]

Office products and services retailer Office Depot has announced a deal with DriveSavers Data Recovery to offer professional data recovery services to its customers nationwide. In the event that a storage drive — such as a computer hard drive, USB drive or media card — fails, and critical data is lost, Office Depot customers now […]

Online backup services are getting creative in their sales and marketing methods.The next time you download new or updated Java networking software for a handheld connected device, laptop or desktop computer, you’ll be offered a free 30-day trial of Carbonite, a Web service that offers unlimited data backup for monthly ($4.95) or yearly ($55) windows […]

NetApp on July 8 said it is dropping out of the race to acquire Data Domain in light of EMC’s most recent offer of $2.1 billion to buy the storage deduplication provider.In an announcement released at the same time, Data Domain’s board of directors agreed to accept EMC’s offer to acquire all outstanding shares of […]