Chris Preimesberger

Toshiba’s Storage Device Division, which specializes in small-form disk drives for netbook and laptop computers, said April 15 that it will demonstrate a new self-encrypting hard drive at next week’s RSA Conference 2009 in San Francisco.Toshiba’s encryption package, which uses Wave Systems’ Trusted Drive Manager application, is built around NIST-certified AES encryption technology fully integrated […]

MENLO PARK, Calif.-Sun Microsystems, like all the major data systems providers, is moving swiftly into the realm of solid-state components, and co-founder/chief architect Andy Bechtolsheim-who isn’t working at the company full time anymore-is helping lead the way.Sun on April 14 officially launched its next-generation set of Intel-based servers, storage packages and networking components in a […]

By all accounts from eWEEK industry sources, EMC-which has been making storage systems since the 1980s-has needed a major overhaul of its high-end systems for at least five years. The company now has gone a long way toward making that upgrade.EMC on April 14 introduced a new high-end line of Symmetrix storage products based on […]

In order to solidify a corporate image in the minds of potential customers, every major enterprise IT systems provider believes it must have an all-inclusive sales and marketing theme or strategy.Hewlett-Packard has its Adaptive Computing campaign. Sun Microsystems has long had its Open Systems approach. Cisco Systems recently unveiled its Unified Computing strategy.IBM has had […]

Big developments in the caching side of data center systems are beginning to come to the fore, in the form of dedicated, new Silicon Valley-based companies that come bearing cutting-edge products. Gear6 of Mountain View, Calif., announced April 13 that it will launch a memcached-based product April 20 at the MySQL Conference in Santa Clara, […]

You may or may not have noticed here at The Station yesterday, but we posted what we thought was a benign item explaining that worldwide storage market leader EMC is planning an event on April 14 to make a big announcement. They’ve been advertising all over the place for people to sign up for this […]

Connectivity was restored April 10 to tens of thousands of land line, cellular and Internet customers of several telecom companies in the San Francisco Bay Area following the vandalism of underground fiber-optic telephone and Internet cable lines at four locations on April 9.AT&T pledged a $100,000 reward, which was increased to $250,000 later on April […]

Don’t let anybody tell you that computing power — meaning processors supplied by Intel, AMD, LSI Logic, IBM, Sun Microsystems and others — isn’t the primary driver for innovation in enterprise data centers. It’s pretty simple: Without the horsepower under the hood, all these new-generation storage arrays and servers with their automated everythings would simply […]

REDWOOD CITY, Calif.-AT&T has pledged a $100,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of vandals who cut underground fiber-optic telephone and Internet cable lines April 9. The felony vandalism disrupted service to tens of thousands of people in five Northern California counties.Portions of the city and county of San Francisco and the […]

AT&T telephone service and Internet access to a major portion of Silicon Valley was cut off April 9 when four underground fiber-optic cables were cut, disrupting service to southern Santa Clara County and parts of Santa Cruz and San Benito counties.Because the cables are located 10 feet down a manhole at a major intersection in […]

A research note from analyst Hans Mosesmann of Raymond James Equity Research regarding the volatile hard drive market crossed The Station’s desk today. Some bullet points of possible interest involving worldwide market leader Seagate Technology and its suppliers: —LSI appears to be gaining ground in the Seagate shop, at the expense of another chip supplier. […]

Cloud storage provider Asigra and backup and recovery specialist CoreVault April 7 announced they are teaming up to provide a new business-class cloud backup and recovery service for the legal community.Aimed at helping both large and small law firms in North America protect sensitive company and client data, the hybrid package is based on Asigra’s […]