Chris Preimesberger

Seagate Technology upped the storage ante for consumer and enterprise desktop disk drives Jan. 5 by announcing the first volume shipments of a drive that features, for the first time, a single-platter 500GB disk.The Barracuda 7200.12 HD, a 3.5-inch, 7200-rpm drive, packs a full 1TB of data capacity on two disks. It features a record […]

The USB data connectivity protocol-which connects an estimated 90 percent of all data storage devices in the world to disk or solid-state drives-hasn’t had many substantial upgrades made to it since the late 1990s. Starting Jan. 6, however, that’s all going to change. Networking semiconductor maker Symwave will stage the first public demonstration of USB […]

As we have often reported here at eWEEK during 2008, enterprise storage software and hardware pricing continues to be very competitive and on a downward slope.DataCore became the latest provider to announce new products along with pricing incentives on Dec. 30 when it launched a new line of full-featured SAN (storage area network) software starter […]

It wasn’t what anyone would consider a major IT news story when it broke earlier in December, but it was an important clue to how the IT co-location business can be expected to play out in 2009 and beyond.i/o Data Centers, which serves as the physical home for about 150 small- and midsize-business IT systems, […]

A noted data center industry association reported Dec. 23 in a survey of IT managers that nearly two-thirds will see their IT budgets stay the same or even increase in 2009, and that the remaining one-third will lose only about 15 percent of their budgets.That ought to serve as some relatively good news in this […]

IBM would love to come into your data center and eradicate all forms of IT chaos.All IT managers face IT chaos at one time or another. Even if you are one of the lucky ones relatively free from it at this time, then you can expect it to show up eventually. If IT chaos can […]

If there’s one word that spells out a major data storage trend for 2009, it’s “automation.” In its simplest form, we’re talking about the creative intersection of business intelligence, botlike software and data storage arrays.Storage companies are finding ways to automate processes that used to be painstaking, tedious and expensive to handle. For example, storage […]

See this Reuters news item on Dec. 16? “Toshiba and SanDisk are reacting to the ongoing financial crisis by cutting production of their NAND flash memory products by 30 percent. With less demand for desktops, laptops and other types of consumer gadgets this holiday shopping season, Toshiba and SanDisk have opted to cut production of […]

Verizon, as one of the world’s 10 largest telecommunications service providers, also ranks as one of the world’s largest users of IT and electrical energy. Company managers are well aware of the huge impact the company’s data centers have on the environment.To its credit-and to the credit of a growing number of large corporations that […]

Off the top, the way Symantec describes an upgrade to its front-line Veritas storage management software sounds plainly ironic. Symantec, which is big on selling storage capacity, promises to help its customers “stop buying storage” by using some new software.Upon closer observance, however, these new enhancements to Symantec’s Veritas storage optimization suite CommandCentral are designed […]

Most of the green IT talk the last couple of years has centered on saving power in data center servers, using smart power supplies, and finding-and utilizing-wasted capacity in storage arrays.Certainly, improvement in these areas are all good for everybody, and the advancements that have been made there are indeed newsworthy. For a look at […]

Top 8 Green IT Highlights of 2008 by Chris Preimesberger No Title If there are two things everybody in IT can agree upon, it’s saving money and saving energy. 2008 was a banner year in green IT, as awareness increased among business owners of the benefits of saving power in the data center—improving the bottom […]