Chris Preimesberger

With the amount of data produced by enterprises growing at a staggering rate, vendors are looking for ways to help businesses better store and protect that information. A technology moving to the forefront is CDP (continuous data protection), which an IT manager can use to restore a system to working order within 5 minutes after […]

IBM, in some ways, is like a beloved grandfather: graying, venerable, thoughtful and wise-someone experienced in life and business who has earned admiration and respect. What a family doesn’t expect to see is Gramps suddenly going wild, jumping up on the town square soapbox with a megaphone, yelling, “Hah! Look at me! I’m the king […]

Three days after IDC crowned IBM as king of the world disk and tape storage hardware market, the same research firm on June 7 anointed Hewlett-Packard as the new No. 1 in worldwide total disk storage systems revenue for the first quarter. HP, which had been slipping in storage market share in recent months, made […]

Mozilla is certainly having a nightmarish security week. Late June 4, it released a security-fix Version 1.5.0.12 of its Thunderbird e-mail client, after updating its Firefox browser, a Firefox Google toolbar extension and its SeaMonkey Web application suite—all within the last six days. The new Thunderbird 1.5.0.12 replaces 1.5.0.10. The 1.5.0.11 version number was skipped […]

Utility storage vendor 3PAR and NetApp announced June 5 a partnership to build a storage package that unites 3PARs InServ Storage Server with NetApp V-Series systems. Jointly developed in direct response to demand from common enterprise customers, the new 3PAR/NetApp package provides highly scalable, single-console-managed block-and-file data services from a single-capacity pool, a 3PAR spokesperson […]

Sun Microsystems is after a larger piece of the blade space with a new line of systems that will offer three choices of microprocessors, including the first Sun server to use an Intel chip since the two companies announced an agreement earlier this year. The new server architecture, which Sun is calling Sun Blade 6000 […]

Portable data memory maker SanDisk on June 4 introduced a pair of new USB flash drives designed to deliver security and speedy access to data for business users with Windows computers. Dubbed Cruzer Professional and Cruzer Enterprise, the two new drives are aimed at the individual consumer/small business and at large organizations, respectively. Cruzer Professional […]

Officials at data storage giant EMC have claimed that the company is not planning to acquire any more companies and instead wants to focus on building its existing storage- and security-related businesses. Nonetheless, the company, based in Hopkinton, Mass., announced June 4 that it has bought its second company of 2007—and 33rd since 2001—in Verid, […]

SANTA CLARA, Calif.—A new IT consortium dedicated to raising public awareness of the need for service innovation and increasing the level of funding for services research was launched here May 30, and it immediately introduced a strategic supporter at the federal government level to help find some funding sources. The Services Research and Innovation Initiative, […]

Remember information lifecycle management? It is still around and making money for some companies, albeit in a quiet way. ILM can be as simple as filing a word document into a desktop folder or as complicated as multi-tiered storage, archiving and authentication policies. Four years ago, when ILM first became a hot commodity, it was […]

Singapore Airlines is offering access to Suns StarOffice 8 office productivity suite free of charge to passengers on its new Boeing 777-300ER aircraft. StarOffice, Suns proprietary version of OpenOffice.org, runs on the aircrafts Linux server and is accessed via a seat-back terminal at each passengers seat, according to Sun. Thanks to new USB ports embedded […]

A new survey of IT administrators of kindergarten through 12th grade schools indicates that 90 percent of them have no plan in place to handle the newly mandated retention of electronically stored information by the federal court system. The findings came as a result of a customer survey released May 29 by storage vendor CommVault […]