Chris Preimesberger

DALLAS — On Oct. 24, an older company (20-year veteran Remote Backup Systems of Memphis, Tenn.) will introduce a brand-new software product that can back up and maintain the integrity of a Web site’s HTML. Founder and CEO Rob Cosgrove claims that RBS is the world’s oldest online backup company (“We started out using telephones […]

DALLAS—The Storage Networking Industry Association is joining a growing number of eco-conscious organizations with the formation of its own green IT program, which will be dedicated to advancing energy efficiency and conservation in all networked storage technologies. The scope of work for the SNIA Green Storage Initiative, announced Oct. 15 at the Storage Networking World […]

DALLAS — If you’re going to start a new storage blog, you might as well have it originate from one of the biggest data storage conferences in the world — Storage Networking World, being held this week at the massive Gaylord Texan resort here on the lovely shore of Lake Grapevine. So that’s what we’re […]

Hitachi Data Systems, best known for shipping high-end data center storage systems to large enterprises such as Boeing Aircraft, Disney-ABC, and others, is looking to expand its reach. The Santa Clara, Calif., storage maker on Oct. 15 launched its new Windows-based Simple Modular Storage product line, its first system aimed squarely at the mass market […]

Energy -Efficient”> Andrew Fanara is in a great position. As director of the Energy Star Product Specifications Development Team for the Environmental Protection Agency, the Seattle-based Fanara is, in effect, the EPAs chief evangelist to the server manufacturing industry. Thus, he is charged with getting everybody to agree that we all need to save electrical […]

Like people, jobs and most other things on Earth, data centers evolve. And, as they are modernized, some things are improved more than others. In an IT era of ever-more-powerful data servers and storage machines, Georgia State Universitys cutting-edge data center is a real-world example of change for the better. Here is a data center […]

The disk drive industry had big news to celebrate on Oct. 12. Drs. Albert Fert and Peter Grünberg were awarded the $1.5 million 2007 Nobel Prize for physics by discovering GMR (giant magnetoresistance)—a key physical technology now widely used in HHD (Hybrid Hard Drive) development and manufacturing. GMR is a quantum mechanical effect observed in […]

As demand for green data centers continues to rise, some smaller vendors are looking to build components that will reduce the amount of heat that servers generate and the amount of power they consume. Multiple forces—from more dense servers to smaller and more powerful processors to the rising cost of energy—are conspiring to drive up […]

Copan Systems joined on Oct. 10 an ever-growing list of storage companies offering deduplication, adding the technology to its virtual tape library solution, the Revolution 300 series, a MAID-based product line. Deduplication eliminates redundant data—down to sections of individual files—throughout a storage network and enables the system to run faster and more cost-effectively. EMC, Hewlett-Packard, […]

CA is moving into the information governance business that so far has been dominated by the likes of Symantec, EMC and Zantaz. CAs new Information Governance package, announced Oct. 8 and assembled with products from two recent acquisitions and an OEM partner, is designed to handle a companys compliance, legal and business requirements by providing […]

Big EMC and little Berkeley Data Systems made official Oct. 4 what eWEEK reported on Sept. 24: They are now betrothed. The Hopkinton, Mass.-based data storage and infrastructure giant now has its own online storage property. And BDS, a small company that offers the Mozy Home and Mozy Pro subscription backup plans for free or […]

Appro, a relatively unknown but highly regarded provider of high-performance enterprise computing systems, announced Oct. 2 that three major federal weapons labs will purchase and install its Xtreme-X high-performance computing clusters. This is the first time, under a single contract, that the three labs—Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Los Alamos National Laboratory and Sandia National Laboratories—will […]