Chris Preimesberger

Portable disk storage drive maker Iomega introduced March 4 its latest and most capacious REV backup product, the REV 120GB Backup Drive, positioning it squarely at small and midsize businesses and remote workgroups.The new drive represents the third generation of the company’s REV technology, which divides its components into a drive bay and a low-cost […]

Storage system component maker Adaptec on March 3 introduced the industry’s first 28-port RAID controller product line, which the company claims can deliver data I/O performance up to five times faster than that of competitors such as LSI Logic, AMCC and Network Appliance.Adaptec’s Series 5 Unified Serial RAID controllers were shown first at the annual […]

SAN FRANCISCO-Sun Microsystems has seen the future of education, and it can be viewed right there on a desktop monitor.Scott McNealy, Sun’s chairman of the board, explained his take on this topic Feb. 28 at Sun’s annual education summit here at the Westin St. Francis. Some 1,000 school district, K-12, college and university IT administrators […]

Sun Microsystems, which is always fighting to come from behind in the storage hardware and software space, is staying on message about the way it is integrating open source and open standards capabilities into all of its products.The company Feb. 28 introduced four new additions to its archive portfolio-two new models and two upgraded versions […]

EMC, owner of the MozyPro online backup service since fall of 2007, sent e-mail notices to its customers on Feb. 25 saying prices for its popular SMB server backup service would be going up substantially on March 1.The e-mail from EMC’s sales department said, “The MozyPro [consumer] desktop offering will maintain the same low monthly […]

Hewlett-Packard, continuing to invest heavily in products for the midrange storage market, Feb. 26 introduced an upgrade of its best-selling Fibre Channel SAN disk array, which ostensibly can be installed and run by IT-savvy employees who are not storage experts. The StorageWorks 4400 Enterprise Virtual Array provides improved capacity (up from 56TB in the previous […]

In August 2007, CEOs John Chambers of Cisco Systems and Steve Ballmer of Microsoft met in New York City and committed their companies to collaborating and offering more interoperable products and services for mutual customers. One of the first results of those talks came to the fore Feb. 26 when Microsoft and Cisco jointly announced […]

Emerson Network Power announced Feb. 25 that it will acquire privately held data center management provider Aperture. Financial terms of the agreement were not disclosed.A spokesperson for Emerson, an IT conglomerate, said that Aperture’s board of directors agreed in principle to the offer to acquire 100 percent of the company’s shares.It was the second acquisition […]

Novell announced Feb. 25 that it will acquire Toronto-based virtualization management software and services provider PlateSpin Ltd. for $205 million in cash. It was the second acquisition Novell has revealed in 12 days. The Waltham, Mass.-based enterprise software maker bought open-source team collaboration software provider SiteScape — founder of the ICEcore open-source collaboration project — […]

News item from Reuters, Feb. 22, 2008: “EMC, the world’s largest storage infrastructure company, hired a former Microsoft executive, Paul Maritz, to start a new Cloud Infrastructure and Services Division. The unit will focus on delivering services accessed over the Web that seem to exist in a cloud of the Internet.” You read that correctly: […]

SAN FRANCISCO-While the IT world itself has been working for several years to reduce its carbon footprint and to cut back greenhouse gas emissions, other business sectors-such as auto manufacturing, oil and gasoline, electrical power and many others-have had their own incentives to do likewise.Now it looks like these disparate sectors of the world economy […]

Compellent released on Feb. 19 a new version of its storage area network that is able to find and utilize orphaned storage space all through the system-not only in storage volumes, but even in a data center’s application servers. Compellent Storage Center 4.0 is the first networked storage system to manage data inside the storage […]