Chris Preimesberger

Iomega is indicating it is willing to consider EMC’s latest offer, a $205.5 million cash buyout bid presented March 18. The consumer storage hardware maker said it is prepared to begin talks with EMC regarding the acquisition of its 54.8 million outstanding shares. The latest bid comes after Iomega’s board of directors unanimously turned down […]

IRVINE, Calif. – The security world winces when it is reminded of the horror story of the TJX Inc. data breach, the largest such incident to date in IT history. In that March 2007 event, more than 45.6 million credit card, debit card, social security, drivers’ license and military identification numbers were stolen from the […]

Two engineers who in the late 1980s came up with the idea of the content-addressable storage design-which eventually morphed into EMC’s multimillion-dollar Centera high-end storage platform-have been reunited at clustered storage provider Caringo.The company announced the appointment of Jan Van Riel as its vice president of advanced technology, March 17, a move that reunites him […]

IRVINE, Calif. -Data protection service provider Datacastle March 12 announced the availability of what it claims to be the first software-as-a-service package for midmarket businesses that combine continuous data protection with data security and vulnerability mitigation features. The 3-year-old Seattle-based company, which sells its software through ISPs, made the announcement here at the Data Protection […]

The date: March 12, 2008. The scene: the second Data Protection Conference at the Irvine (Calif.) Hilton, right across MacArthur Boulevard from the “Hey there, Pilgrim” airport — John Wayne International. I’ve been covering the event this week. Some 660 registered attendees and speakers were moving to and fro, going in and out of seminars, […]

STANFORD, Calif.-Walking into the big meeting room at the Frances C. Arrillaga Alumni Center on the Stanford University campus March 7 for the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research summit, the first thing one noticed were the comfortable-looking, overstuffed dark leather chairs on the dais for speakers and panelists. Conferences never supply panelists with chairs […]

Nobody would have believed this as little as two years ago, but Sun Microsystems and former bitter rival Microsoft March 10 announced that they have opened an “interoperability center” on Microsoft’s campus for optimizing Windows applications to run on the Sun Fire x64 server storage machines.In addition, Sun said that it now has made available […]

Consumer data storage hardware maker Iomega on March 10 revealed that it had received an unsolicited $178.1 million buyout offer from IT infrastructure giant EMC, and rejected it.EMC told the Iomega board of directors that it is prepared to acquire the 54.8 million shares of outstanding common stock for $3.25 per share, totaling approximately $178.1 […]

Prices for disk storage hardware keep slipping downward. Who knows when this trend is going to change? Samsung’s and Seagate’s assembly factories in the Far East apparently have become so much faster and more effective in recent years that an oversupply of products is the root cause of this price–and margin–slippage. Good news for the […]

EMC and IBM continue to lead the pack in the storage industry, but trend-type news is being made by three other companies slightly down the list, according to research firm IDC. Dell and Network Appliance continue to gain market share steadily each quarter, while Hewlett-Packard is losing ground, IDC reported March 6 in a report […]

SAN FRANCISCO-How is the data security industry keeping a safe distance ahead of those who revel in stealing information from companies and individuals and using it for their own profit?The current answer is by continually building more business intelligence, developed and collected by security technology companies, into large databases and the latest security products that […]

Storage and networking infrastructure provider Brocade Communications Systems announced March 4 that it is acquiring Strategic Business Systems, a privately held professional services company that specializes in data center design, virtualization and data migration projects. The companies did not disclose the transaction terms.SBS brings industry-respected expertise in the IP networking sector, something that Brocade, centered […]