Chris Preimesberger

Halfway through calendar year 2007, trends in the data storage business are becoming more defined. Decision makers at enterprises are now more aware of such topics as carbon footprints, green data centers, pulling less wattage “out of the wall,” and leaner, cleaner data for storage, thanks to the improving methods of data deduplication. Efficient data […]

SAN FRANCISCO—With industry analysts warning that business data continues to fill up storage at an average of 60 percent per year, enterprises of all sizes eventually need to make a strategic decision: Will they take better control over the organization of their data as it comes into the system, or will the data simply keep […]

Enterprise search vendor Autonomy announced July 3 that it has acquired privately owned e-mail archiving and e-discovery/compliance provider Zantaz for $375 million in cash. Zantaz will operate as a wholly owned subsidiary of U.K.-based Autonomy, CEO Stouffer Egan told eWEEK. Steve King, CEO of Zantaz, of Pleasanton, Calif., will retain his position as CEO of […]

Cluster storage is now the norm for high performance computing systems. Six years ago, as cluster storage was just beginning to ramp up in production use, conventional, nonlinked storage systems constituted about 80 percent of the HPC market. That has all changed dramatically. Cluster systems took a majority (about 52 percent) of the market in […]

Supercomputings newest baby on the way is a $35 million system named after a cartoon character and a muscle car: Roadrunner. Currently being built by IBM for the Department of Energys Los Alamos National Laboratory, in Los Alamos, N.M., Roadrunner could develop into a machine capable of achieving a never-before-sustained speed of 1,000 trillion calculations—or […]

Microsoft, as part of its new Windows Live set of hosted services announced on June 27, is now beta testing the concept of free data storage “in the cloud” for consumers. If all goes well with the 5,000 beta testers now trying it out (sorry, no more testers are being added at this time), Windows […]

Data backup and recovery provider Quantum announced June 26 a new disk-based enterprise backup and replication system that features an advanced form of data deduplication that can be utilized throughout the IT system. The DXi7500 is the first to use what San Jose, Calif.-based Quantum calls “policy-based deduplication,” which allows management in various sectors of […]

Storage system and data deduplication provider Data Domain ended all the industry whisperings June 27 by announcing that its initial public offering of 7,390,000 shares of common stock has been activated on the Nasdaq Global Market with the shares priced at $15 apiece. Shares of Data Domains common stock began trading today under the symbol […]

Clustered network application support storage software maker Exanet has announced the launch of what it calls the first enterprise-class search engine built expressly for clustered storage systems. According to the June 26 announcement, ExaSearch is an enhanced search engine built atop open-source software, capable of searching multiple sources—including file servers, e-mail systems, groupware, databases and […]

IBM and Sun Microsystems are looking to bring supercomputing into the “petaflop” era. The two IT giants will detail the specifics behind their new supercomputer systems to the audience attending the 2007 International Supercomputer Conference in Dresden, Germany, which kicks off June 26—two systems that promise to break the petaflop barrier in terms of performance. […]

Disk drive maker Seagate Technology on June 25 introduced what it calls “the first second-generation” 1TB storage hard drives for a variety of enterprise and desktop uses. The Barracuda 7200.11 for desktops and Barracuda ES.2 enterprise PMR (perpendicular magnetic recording) hard drives deliver 1TB of capacity on a four-disk platform, 7,200-rpm spin speeds, and caches […]

Novell the week of June 18 announced that it has entered into an agreement with server and storage switch vendor Voltaire on a joint software package—featuring real-time SUSE Linux—that improves performance of real-time trading applications in the financial markets. The new software, which takes advantage of InfiniBand interconnectivity, reduces latency bottlenecks on both the operating […]