Chris Preimesberger

LONDON-VMware and Iomega, cousins to each other under mothership EMC, co-launched a new shared-storage system Feb. 24 for small businesses and remote corporate offices and/or workgroups.The new configurations link VMware’s ESX and/or ESXi hypervisors with Iomega’s newest 1TB and 2TB spinning-disk storage systems for the first time.Iomega and VMware made the announcement at the VMWorld […]

In a direct move into competition with external storage makers such as Iomega, Seagate, Toshiba, Dell and EMC, Hitachi Global Storage Technologies Feb. 24 said it has agreed to acquire Fabrik, a privately held supplier of personal storage products and services.Financial details of the transaction were not disclosed. The deal is expected to close in […]

LONDON—The Station is in Her Majesty’s backyard today and tomorrow, meeting a few IT companies and doing some sightseeing. One of the highlights of the latter: visiting the Abbey Road studios in St. John’s Wood, where the Beatles did their recording magic in the 1960s. But we digress: We’re here a few days ahead of […]

Integrated application delivery provider Radware said Feb. 20 it has signed an agreement with struggling Nortel to purchase the Canadian company’s Layer 4-7 application delivery business. Financial details were not disclosed.Nortel added the application switch product line to its catalog in October 2000 through its corporate acquisition of Alteon WebSystems.North America’s largest telecommunications infrastructure and […]

Solid-state drive maker STEC on Feb. 19 announced the mutual dismissal of a patent infringement lawsuit brought by Seagate Technology in April 2008.The lawsuit was initiated by Seagate’s allegations that STEC misappropriated Seagate’s intellectual property. Following discovery and evaluation of STEC’s intellectual property and technology, Seagate has dropped all claims associated with STEC’s purported patent […]

Funny, but BLADE Network Technologies of Santa Clara, Calif., doesn’t make blade servers. It makes really good network switches and data center-type software, however. So why didn’t it call itself SWITCH Network Technologies? Just a passing thought. Anyway, BLADE—WHICH ALWAYS CAPITALIZES ITS NAME, SO IT APPEARS THAT THE COMPANY IS SHOUTING—launched its new RackSwitch G8124 […]

On Dec. 9, 2008, Sun Microsystems called together the usual-suspect journalists and IT analysts in San Francisco to announce the launch of a new Sun division focusing on providing cloud computing goods and services to enterprises.Following a full year in stealth mode, the unit is now moving forward with its strategy, which can be described-with […]

Soon we may see this as an entry in the book of Guinness World Records: The world’s largest single desktop virtualization and Linux deployment now belongs to Canada’s Userful and Brazil’s ThinNetworks, which hooked up to install a whopping 356,800 green workstations in schools in all 5,560 municipalities in Brazil. The previous record — that […]

Because an increasing number of enterprises are considering encryption as an additional safeguard of their data, it’s important to bear in mind that management of the keys that unlock encrypted data is as crucial as safeguarding the family jewels themselves. After all, encrypted data is just as vulnerable as unencrypted data to sophisticated outside threats, […]

Heavily leveraged Toshiba is wearing out its corporate credit cards these days in an effort to be well-positioned for a bounceback in the world economy. Only four months after announcing that it will buy 30 percent of SanDisk’s share of solid-state-drive manufacturing capacity for a cool $1 billion, the Japanese IT hardware maker said it […]

Can’t have too much good industry news like this: CEO Mark Ward and data storage device maker Copan Systems announced Feb. 16 an $18.5 million round of financing from a group of venture capital companies. The company said it will use the money to expand product development and sales efforts. Wise choice of options. Copan […]

It wasn’t that long ago that Microsoft and virtually any open-source organization wouldn’t want to be found in the same room together, let alone collaborate on a project.Times and attitudes-and the economy-have changed. Virtualization also has played a major role in leading to a new approach. Red Hat, the world’s largest enterprise Linux software provider, […]