Chris Preimesberger

Storage service management provider Onaro Sept. 4 launched a new version of its software that provides network storage with automated features that had been limited only to data centers in the past. The combination of Onaro’s new SANscreen Capacity Manager 1.0, SANscreen Provisioning Manager 1.0 and updates to SANscreen Service Assurance products now enables enterprises […]

NetApp filed a lawsuit on Sept. 5 against Sun Microsystems seeking damages and a permanent injunction against the company, claiming Sun has infringed on several patents regarding NetApps home-grown WAFL file system. NetApp claims Suns ZFS (Zetabyte File System), which is included in Suns Unix-derived Solaris operating system, is patterned directly after its own WAFL […]

To Jonathan Schwartz, the rapidly growing data loads being generated within enterprises mean that high-performance computing will be coming to every industry sector sooner or later. That, in turn, means that many of the businesses in these industries will be turning to Sun Microsystems for help with their IT infrastructures. Schwartz, Sun’s president and CEO, […]

In the past, before the certifiable explosion of the amount of data thats now being created, storage administrators were often considered only a cut above a shunned stepchild in the data center pecking order. At large enterprise IT shops, the most experienced or the most talented members of the team are usually charged with keeping […]

Online storage provider Carbonite Aug. 28 launched a major upgrade to its PC backup service and announced plans for a Mac version. Carbonite Release 3.0 offers unlimited online backup space for consumers and small businesses for a flat price of $49.95 per year per personal computer. The downloadable software works unobtrusively in the background, backs […]

NCR, the worlds leading ATM and retail systems maker, revealed Aug. 28 that its board of directors has set Sept. 30 as the date for the previously announced spinoff of its Teradata data warehousing business. NCR announced back on Jan. 8 that it intended to split off Teradata—the worlds largest data warehousing software and hardware […]

Seagate Technology, the worlds largest disk drive maker, told eWEEK on Aug. 28 that it has not received an offer to be acquired by any other company—foreign or domestic—and that it is not for sale. A report in The New York Times on Aug. 25 had kindled speculation that a Chinese IT company had been […]

Storage disk drive maker Iomega Aug. 27 introduced a new line of home- or small business-network hard drives that includes a 500GB option with a price tag of $199. The new line of Iomega Home Network Hard Drives are also available in 320GB ($149) and 360GB (also $149, but not available until late Sept.). The […]

The New York Times reported Aug. 25 that an unnamed Chinese technology company has shown interest in acquiring disk drive maker Seagate Technology, which owns about 30 percent of the world market share in the sector. The possibility of such a transaction raises concerns among U.S. officials about potential national security risks regarding the transferal […]

Sun Microsystems, which has built most of its company around the Java programming language brand since it was introduced in April 1995, announced Aug. 23 that it will change its NASDAQ stock symbol to “JAVA” from “SUNW” beginning Monday, Aug. 27. Since Sun stock began trading in 1986, SUNW had been used for the stock […]

Toshiba revealed Aug. 22 that it will soon add three new high-density flash memory cards to its product lineup—including one it touts as the worlds first 32GB flash card. The Tokyo-based company, which partners with SanDisk to produce SanDisk High Capacity cards, also announced a 16GB SDHC card and an 8GB microSDHC card. All the […]

Colleges Getting Proactive on Disaster Communication”> When any kind of weather system enters the Gulf of Mexico, Casey Paquet and the emergency management team at Eckerd College in St. Petersburg, Fla., make it their business to watch very closely. In the event of a hurricane or other emergency, Paquet—Web manager at the 1,800-student, private liberal […]