Chris Preimesberger

Symantec June 10 announced that it has joined the ranks of IT companies investing in online backup services. The company acquired SwapDrive, a privately held online storage company, for terms that were not officially announced. However, an industry and financial analyst who asked not to be identified told eWEEK that the price was approximately $123 […]

LAS VEGAS — Tuesday was Information Technology and Sports Licensing Day at the Venetian resort here in this hot desert city, once home to Howard Hughes, Elvis Presley, Bugsy Siegel, the Rat Pack and a few thousand anonymous casino workers. It’s now home to more than a million folks, and lots more are on the […]

LAS VEGAS-At its annual Vision user conference June 10, Symantec announced updates to its Veritas NetBackup platform that include data deduplication, continuous data protection and granular recovery capabilities for both Windows and VMware environments.The moves put the company on a par with competitors such as EMC, IBM, Data Domain and Hitachi Data Systems, which have […]

LAS VEGAS-Symantec introduced its new Veritas Virtual Infrastructure enterprise product, developed in concert with Citrix Systems, at its Vision user conference June 10 here at the Venetian Hotel.Veritas Virtual Infrastructure combines Symantec’s Veritas Storage Foundation storage management capabilities with the server operations of Citrix XenServer. This combination of technologies will give data center managers centralized […]

LAS VEGAS-Symantec Chairman and CEO John Thompson didn’t have any new product news to speak of when he opened the annual Vision user conference here at the Venetian on June 10, but he did allude to a couple of big deals that will happen this fall. Thompson, now in his 10th year at the helm […]

Scientists at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico have built and tested a new computer cluster called the IBM Roadrunner that is the first to achieve a petaflop of sustained performance, the U.S. Department of Energy said June 9. “Flop” is an acronym meaning floating-point operations, or mathematical calculations, per second. One petaflop […]

Hitachi Data Systems, which started shipping storage systems for midrange companies only in the fall of 2007, has produced a substantial revenue improvement in the worldwide external disk storage sector, according to a report issued June 6 by IT research company IDC.HDS gained .6 percent in overall market share over 2007, earning an additional $69 […]

The idea of utilizing computing power that’s “Somewhere Out There,” to borrow the title from the classic Linda Ronstadt-James Ingram song, is certainly not new, and certainly not the be-all and end-all in the computing world at this time—at least not yet. But there are those who think its time has come and that the […]

Data center builder/operator Terremark Worldwide June 4 became the first company in that sector to add new Web 2.0-type computing capabilities as an option for its existing colocation services. The Miami Fla.-based company acquired hosted service provider DataReturn in 2005, which had developed the Infinistructure utility computing platform. Three years later, Terremark has morphed Infinistructure […]

eWEEK’s Jeff Burt reported June 4 that Sun Microsystems has entered the race to see which Tier 1 storage system company can come up with the first solid-state disk-based storage system that will actually work, and work well, in production situations.Solid-state flash drives use enterprise-class flash memory to store and retrieve data, enabling read/write response […]

Gazillionaire Carl Icahn, a money-hungry shark who has thrust himself into the middle of the Microsoft-Yahoo negotiations, should keep his teeth out of the whole thing and mind his own damn business. Reuters reported June 3 that Icahn is so angry that the first round of negotiations failed on May 3 that he would seek […]

Removable data storage maker Imation and PC maker Dell June 2 both launched the first 500GB native-capacity cartridge in their popular lines of RDX removable disk systems.The RDX system is a low-end, tape-replacement data storage package designed to provide small and midsize businesses with easy-to-use and reliable backup, data security and expandable storage, a company […]