Chris Preimesberger

MONTEREY, Calif.—The U.S. federal government and the 3.3 million people who work as private-industry contractors to provide goods and services for it now have a centralized, secure, Web-based system for identifying and credentialing outsourced workers around the world. This system, in the works for about five years and tested by the Department of Defense for […]

Cisco Systems President and CEO John Chambers apparently was speaking ahead of himself last week when he told journalists and analysts at a press briefing in Anaheim that Linksys—well-known for making Wi-Fi hardware for home offices and small businesses—would eventually be folded into the overall Cisco brand. Chambers clear implication was that the familiar and […]

Enterprise storage vendor Isilon Systems on July 23 launched two new very-high-density cluster storage systems that the company claims achieve scalability levels 100 times those of traditional SAN and NAS systems. Isilons IQ 9000 and EX 9000 products, combined with the latest version of the Seattle-based companys OneFS operating system (Version 4.7), feature high-performance data […]

The largest branded seafood company in North America had been fishing only in familiar IT waters until this spring, when it upgraded its outdated, tape-dominated data storage system by beta testing a new disk-to-disk virtual tape library appliance, something it had never considered using before. Now the companys CIO wishes he would have looked at […]

Data compliance software maker Clearwell Systems and IT infrastructure giant Cisco Systems announced July 23 that they have partnered to develop a set of new e-discovery tools that incorporate next-generation technologies—collectively known as “E-Discovery 2.0.” The technologies are designed to manage quickly growing litigation case volumes and accelerate early case analysis. Clearwells Intelligence Platform 2.0 […]

Disk drive and storage appliance maker Western Digital joined a growing number of IT hardware manufacturers this week by launching a set of new environmentally friendly products—in this case, a new line of low-power desktop, enterprise and external hard drives. The GreenPower hard drives, introduced July 23, will ship in capacities from 320GB to 1TB, […]

EMC—the world leader in several data storage hardware and software markets—keeps coming up with overall quarterly financial numbers that any business would be happy to report. But the company just cant seem to satisfy everybody. On July 24, EMC reported record second-quarter revenue and double-digit revenue growth in its systems, software and services businesses. The […]

An explosion beneath a manhole cover on Mission Street in downtown San Francisco July 24 knocked out power, darkened traffic signal lights, and cut service to about 51,000 Pacific Gas and Electric customers in San Francisco and the surrounding area-including a major IT co-location center only a few blocks away. The blast and outage occurred […]

Server virtualization software provider XenSource bolstered both its front-line product and overall company credibility July 23 by signing an OEM agreement to embed Symantecs storage and data security software in its enterprise platform. As a result, Veritas Storage Foundation—Symantecs highly regarded enterprise storage management software—will be integrated into XenEnterprise by this fall, a XenSource spokesperson […]

Hewlett-Packard is buying Opsware, a software vendor best known as a provider of data center automation products, for $1.6 billion, the two companies announced July 23. The purchase of Opsware and its line of products will allow HP to integrate that technology into its own burgeoning line of BTO (business technology optimization) software. Combining the […]

SAN provider Compellent Technologies July 15 introduced a new storage area network the company claims is the industry’s only platform to extend block-level automated tiered storage to file management. Compellent’s Storage Center SAN Version 3.6 with NAS (network-attached storage) features Compellent Data Progression, in which data is automatically classified and moved to the appropriate tier […]

Data storage conglomerate EMC, which has bought 34 companies in the last five-and-a-half years, is adding XML development company X-Hive to its ever-expanding technology lineup. EMC, of Hopkinton, Mass., announced the sale July 19. Terms were not disclosed. X-Hive, a privately-held company with 25 employees in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, brings XML tools to the Documentum […]