Chris Preimesberger

Fusion-io, which makes handheld-size solid-state storage arrays for enterprise systems, launched March 12 a new product called ioDrive Duo, which doubles the capacity of Fusion-io’s PCI Express-based ioDrive storage array.The company is billing the ioDrive Duo as the “fastest server-based solid-state storage” package available.Performance for multiple ioDrive Duos scales linearly, the company said, allowing an […]

Facebook, the world’s hottest social networking Web site that averages about 16,000 new members each day, updated its home page for the second time in the last eight months on March 11.Users now will get a real-time stream of posts from their friends and acquaintances on the home page. Users can control the stream of […]

EMC, which has been focusing more research and development on software and services for the data center outside the specific scope of its storage infrastructure, March 11 launched a new tool that provides automated root-cause analysis for virtual infrastructures.In a recent survey of IT managers regarding virtual machine management, the No. 1 problem that continues […]

Follow-up is a good thing, especially after one offers predictions. It shows boldness, candidness and strength of character—especially if the predictions are way off the mark. In March 2006, the data center industry group AFCOM, which has a research arm called the Data Center Institute, released a study called “Five Bold Predictions for the Data […]

HANNOVER, Germany—One of the truly charming features that many old European cities have is a central square, the place—usually near a basilica—where people congregate, socialize, read, get some sun or do business. Italy’s piazzas are a perfect example (“piazza” means “broad street”). CeBIT, which stands for Center of Business Information Technology, is the largest IT […]

Clustered storage provider Isilon Systems, which supplies fast network-attached storage systems for a list of movie studios and television stations that produce digital films, on March 10 launched a significant expansion of its mainline storage arrays.Isilon released new versions of its S-Series and NL-Series storage systems and unveiled an addition to its X-Series product line.With […]

Keeping an enterprise IT system running on a daily basis certainly has its multiple challenges. Ensuring that the enterprise can rebound quickly and resume business in the event of a natural disaster, power outage, terrorist or hacker attack, or other unplanned incident is equally important in this day of real-time Internet business.But there’s a new […]

Disk storage maker Seagate Technology and microprocessor provider Advanced Micro Devices March 9 staged the world’s first public demonstration of next-generation high-speed data transfer-Serial ATA at 6G bps-at the Everything Channel XChange Conference in New Orleans.The demonstration featured two Seagate SATA disk drives, one a Barracuda 7200.12 3G-bps hard drive and the other a prototype […]

Pillar Data Systems, which makes highly virtualized storage architecture that runs on commodity servers, revealed March 9 that it will be joining the ranks of network storage providers that are moving to solid-state flash memory.EMC, Dell, Sun Microsystems and newcomer Fusion-io are among the few companies that currently offer either built-in or optional SSDs in […]

The worldwide recession, which has been crunching other sectors of IT for months, is finally beginning to crack into the data storage market. Research company IDC revealed in its quarterly disk storage systems report March 6 that total disk storage systems market revenues declined 5.9 percent from 2008, totaling $7.3 billion. Weakness in server systems […]

HANNOVER, Germany — California CIO Teri Takai might as well be running the IT operation for an entire country. After being named to her position in January 2008 by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, Takai has taken a year to evaluate the state of the state’s IT structure. She is now starting to make decisions on a […]

HANNOVER, Germany — Companies such as Samsung, SanDisk and Western Digital have been the usual suspects who leap-frog each other every few months as capacities continue to improve in flash memory drives. However, at least for the time being, there is a new current champion.Flash memory maker A-DATA Technology March 4 took the world lead […]