Chris Preimesberger

A survey of more than 500 senior IT professionals reveals that a whopping 89 percent test their disaster recovery/failover systems only once a year or not at all, leaving their enterprises vulnerable to massive technology and business failures in the event of a disaster. In addition, 70 percent of respondents said it would take at […]

Researcher IDC reported May 3 that the worldwide branded tape-drive market in 2006 continued to be dominated by two of the usual suspects: IBM and Hewlett-Packard. According to the IDC year-end report, “IDC Worldwide Branded Tape Marketshare Report 2006” by analyst Robert Amatruda, HP held the No. 1 position in worldwide market share (overall shipments) […]

IBM introduced May 2 a storage software management package for OEM distribution that provides backup and restore capabilities for Microsoft SharePoint environments. SharePoint is a Web-based workplace for online collaboration, which provides sharing of business data and support of Microsoft Office documents. Deployments are in the tens of millions worldwide, a company spokesperson said. The […]

Magazine publisher Red Herring May 2 dived into a pool that includes such well-known research giants as Gartner, IDC, Forrester and Yankee Group when it launched a new division, Red Herring Research, at its Spring 2007 conference, being held through May 3 in Monterey, Calif. Red Herring Research will offer analyses on “emerging and disruptive […]

Storage management software maker ISSI Data on May 1 introduced a new online service aimed at small and midsize businesses that offers automated processes, end-to-end encryption and comprehensive reporting—in addition to tiered-storage and disaster recovery features. ISSI DataVault is the companys first attempt at an online storage product. It is designed for high availability, secure […]

Only about 14 percent of all corporate e-mail accounts are currently being backed up and archived for future access, but that number is going to shoot up to nearly 70 percent by the year 2011, according to a new storage industry study. The Radicati Group, a Palo Alto, Calif., technology research firm, also reported April […]

SAN FRANCISCO—Software intellectual-property management services provider Palamida on April 27 introduced a new service that works to identify vulnerabilities in an enterprises open-source code. The announcement was made at the annual Gartner Symposium/ITxpo: Emerging Trends at the Moscone Center here. Palamidas Vulnerability Reporting Solution works as a plug-in to the companys code audit compliance solution, […]

Online storage startup Berkeley Data Systems, which only three days earlier announced it had signed General Electric to a multimillion-dollar backup contract, was back in the storage news April 26 with the public beta release of Mac Mozy—a service a BDS spokesperson called the “first unlimited online backup for Macintosh users worldwide.” For $4.95 a […]

Sun Microsystems is preparing to move into the video-on-demand market with a package of hardware and software aimed at creating infrastructure for cable and telecom companies looking to offer customers IPTV. On April 25, the Santa Clara, Calif., company will unveil its Sun Streaming System, a combination of hardware in a three-rack, 42U (73.5-inch) configuration […]

SAN FRANCISCO—Hewlett-Packard, putting together resources it has been cultivating since it acquired business intelligence vendor Knightsbridge Solutions last December, introduced on April 24 what it calls a “next-generation” data warehouse platform and new business intelligence services aimed at Global 2000 companies. Knightsbridge, which brought 700 new employees with it into the HP realm, is a […]

Berkeley Data Systems, of American Fork, Utah, has landed a rather large corporate fish. The 25-employee online storage backup company announced April 23 a multimillion-dollar contract to provide remote backup services to employees of General Electric worldwide. The announcement of the contract follows the successful launch of the companys MozyPro online backup service for businesses, […]

Enterprise storage vendor Intransa April 23 introduced three new enclosures for its industrial-strength StorStac systems — each of which can now utilize RAID 5 in its configuration, if necessary. Intransas new StorStac SCE3 offers 3.75TB of raw capacity per enclosure, the SCE7 contains 7. TB, and the SCE11 is capable of 11.25TB. Each unit now […]