Chris Preimesberger

Data storage market leader EMC reaffirmed that it will not reduce its 90 percent stake in its VMWare subsidiary for at least two years after a summer initial public offering, Chief Financial Officer David Goulden said May 16. The Hopkinton, Mass.-based company previously had said that it would offer 10 percent of VMWare to the […]

SAN FRANCISCO—Dell has been roundly rocked by serious problems of late: falling sales numbers, the move to replace an inefficient CEO, and major lawsuits brought by the attorney general of New York accusing the company of fraudulent or misleading sales tactics and by investors who contend that the company issued false public claims about its […]

Hewlett-Packard, which has made so secret of the fact that it has made the small to midsize business market its No. 1 storage sales priority in 2007, introduced May 14 its first high-end disk array since last fall. HPs StorageWorks XP24000 Disk Array, which is designed for enterprise environments that require 24/7 business continuity, integrates […]

Network Appliance on May 15 launched a new, improved version of its data deduplication software, which can be used across a variety of environments, including backup, archival, compliance storage, and primary data sets as diverse as home directories and genomic data. Most deduplication software is currently dedicated to backup and archival storage. NetApps A-SIS (Advanced […]

Storage network system provider EqualLogic on May 15 expanded its portfolio of software features currently available in its PS Series storage arrays. EqualLogic added thin provisioning, which improves utilization and scalability while helping IT shops reduce their total storage costs. Thin provisioning is a method of storage resource management and virtualization that lets IT administrators […]

Hitachi Data Systems May 14 introduced a new, unified enterprise storage system with performance and capacity claims that appear to border on science fiction—or at least unabashed marketing hype. The new Universal Storage Platform V, touted as “the most advanced, intelligent storage services platform on the planet,” features a mega-controller that the company claims can […]

Storage hardware and software maker NEC introduced on May 9 a new midrange storage system that it says can scale up a companys data storage from as little as 219GB to a whopping 1.152 petabytes without disrupting the regular work of the system. Normally, when storage systems are upgraded or augmented, the process can require […]

Those who control the image strings for government and business interests in China, the worlds largest single market, are trying hard to bury the countrys well-embedded “Made in China” image and embrace a new one: “Created in China.” The huge Far Eastern country, which ran up a staggering $232.5 billion trade surplus with the United […]

When Hewlett-Packard bought Mercury Interactive for $4.5 billion in July 2006, company officials had their sights set squarely on the IT governance space. The purchase has given the Palo Alto, Calif., company a new $2 billion software business, according to officials, and made it a player in an industry sector that analysts expect will explode […]

Rover Technology Fusions, a small data security provider, based in Tampa, Fla., introduced on May 7 a new data backup product for laptops and notebooks that uses solid-state Flash memory and IBMs Tivoli Continuous Data Protection for Files software. Rover SPARC (Secure Personal Automatic Replication Card) is a USB Flash card about the size of […]

Sun Microsystems has announced the release of an open-source version of its Java Development Kit for Java Platform Standard Edition, the systems company and Java giant also announced a new competitor to Adobes Flash and Microsofts Silverlight, as well as a new mobile initiative. Sun has contributed the software to the OpenJDK Community as free […]

Enterprise storage vendor Data Domain, which has made data deduplication the centerpiece of its identity, introduced on May 7 a new inline controller that it calls “the industrys most scalable” for enterprise data protection. The DD580 storage controller can deliver up to 800GB per hour of aggregate deduplication throughput using fewer than 15 SATA (Serial […]