Chris Preimesberger

Hitachi Data Systems Chief Operating Officer Minoru Kosuge was promoted to CEO on May 29 following the resignation of David E. Robertson, who has taken a new position at Hewlett-Packard as senior vice president and general manager of the companys enterprise storage business, effective May 30. Hitachi also announced the appointment of Jack Domme as […]

A startup in Alameda, Calif., plans to release a kind of holy grail of software in the third or fourth week of June. Lina said its dual-licensed virtual Linux machine will run more or less normal Linux applications under Windows, Mac or Linux, with a look and feel native to each. The concept recalls Java, […]

On-demand IT services provider Jamcracker has landed a major deal with IP service provider XO Communications to deliver a suite of collaboration, mobility and security software applications for small and midsize businesses. XO will provide these services over Jamcrackers advanced, nationwide facilities-based IP network, called Jamcracker Services Delivery Network. XO, based in Reston, Va., serves […]

Hewlett Packard customers now have the option to redeem rebates online—without submitting any paperwork—when purchasing consumer technology products at the HP Home & Home Office Store, the Palo Alto, Calif., company announced May 24. The “paperless” rebate program gives U.S. customers the option to redeem their rebates by entering just two pieces of information online—their […]

Data security and storage provider Symantec announced May 23 the findings of a study that reveals some harsh realities but might not be much of a surprise to many IT managers: IT professionals worldwide struggle with the increasing complexity of data center management while at the same time facing severe budget and personnel constraints. Respondents […]

High-performance storage system maker Panasas announced May 22 that it will release the source code of its parallel file system client software, called DirectFLOW, to the open-source community. The Parallel Network File System, or pNFS, is a complex Panasas-created technology engineered to solve storage I/O bottlenecks and accelerate customer deployments of parallel storage solutions, a […]

ORLANDO, Fla.—Cisco Systems and EMCs RSA security division introduced May 23 an extension of their partnership that entails development of encryption for spinning disk or tape storage at the network level. The two companies will combine Ciscos Storage Media Encryption, which provides encryption of stored data as a fabricwide service, and RSAs Key Manager, which […]

IBM continued its strategic foray into the unified storage sector on May 22 by introducing a new set of products across a range of products, including virtualization, storage resource management and enterprise disk. Unified storage enables the use of several types of storage connectivity, including iSCSI, Fibre Channel, NAS (network-attached storage) and SAN (storage area […]

ORLANDO, Fla.— For EMCs VARs and channel partners, Jan. 1, 2007 was the dawn of a new era. According to those in the know, EMC and its network of outside partners are now seeing the role of the channel in the same perspective. It might be called an “Age of Alignment,” based on the testimonies […]

ORLANDO, Fla.—Storage capacity management software maker MonoSphere on May 21 introduced a new package customized for best-selling storage arrays made by EMC, the worlds largest data storage company. The announcement was made at EMC World 2007, which is being held at the Orange County Convention Center here through May 24. MonoSpheres Storage Horizon 3.2, designed […]

E-discovery services provider RenewData on May 21 announced the launch of a new data migration system that locates and consolidates old e-mail into a new searchable archive to create a centralized repository suitable for legal discovery. Data Migration Services is designed to eliminate costs and risks associated with maintaining old e-mail on backup tapes or […]

ORLANDO, Fla.—Storage giant EMC announced that the latest version of EMC Avamar would support VMWare virtual machines, extending deduplication to a major virtual storage line and making good on two of its most significant acquisitions of the last three years. EMC Avamar v3.7 will support VCB (VMWares Consolidated Backup) as well as EMC Celerra NAS […]