Chris Preimesberger

Messaging security, storage and compliance provider LiveOffice Managed Messaging Services April 9 introduced its Sentinel e-mail portal, a web-based administration console that enables organizations to search and retrieve archived messages for e-discovery purposes, while also providing real-time views of inbound threats, e-mail volumes and storage utilization. LiveOffices new client portal acts as mission control for […]

Intel, the worlds largest microprocessor maker, has been granted a few more days to explain how it is trying to locate a long list of missing e-mails in the legal discovery phase of a 2-year-old court battle initiated by its major competitor, Advanced Micro Devices. A U.S. District judge on March 7 originally gave Intel […]

Storage system maker Nexsan Technologies and virtualization software provider Reldata announced April 4 that they have produced a unified IP SAN/NAS storage package that includes storage area network-level data replication over wide-area networks. The new product combines Nexsans SATABeast array with the Reldata 9240 IP Storage Gateway, resulting in an enterprise-class storage system that aims […]

Following a highly successful word-of-mouth entrance into the market, online data backup provider Berkeley Data Systems officially launched April 3 a business-oriented version of Mozy, its hosted storage service. The MozyPro remote backup service, which Berkeley DS founder and CEO Josh Coates said already has signed up more than 2,500 businesses, is similar to its […]

Former Vice President Al Gore told Embedded Systems Conference keynote attendees in San Jose, Calif. today that energy-efficient IT systems of the future—many containing embedded processors—will be a major factor in helping overcome the climate problems the Earth is now facing. “Embedded systems can be the key part of this,” the self-styled “recovering politician” Gore […]

Launchpad.net 1.0, a new collaborative Web site and service package designed to improve the flow of communication between developers on different software projects, began public beta testing April 2. Launchpad joins a well-established group of online open-source development sites and communities that include SourceForge.net, CollabNet and FreshMeat.net, among others. Registration to be a beta tester […]

Nearly five years after the original lawsuit was filed, data integrator Informatica was awarded $25 million April 2 by a jury in the San Francisco federal court against a Business Objects subsidiary, Acta. The award was based on the finding that business intelligence provider Business Objects willfully infringed on two Informatica patents in selling its […]

Data Domain, which makes storage appliances for disk-based backup and network-based disaster recovery, filed a Form S-1 registration statement late on March 30 for an initial public offering of as much as $100 million in common stock. Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, Thomas Weisel Partners LLC Pacific Crest Securities will underwrite the IPO, according to a […]

Not to be upstaged by rival SanDisk, Koreas Samsung said March 27 that it plans to roll out a 64GB, 1.8-inch solid state drive sometime this spring for its OEM partners. Back in January, SanDisk, of Milpitas, Calif., introduced a 32GB SSD that can be used as a drop-in replacement for a standard spinning-disk hard […]

Two leading IT think tanks estimate that 5.6 million hard drives will fail in 2007, and chances are fair to good that one or more of them might well be yours. So a new company has decided to step in and help out. Data Recovery Whos Who on March 28 launched the Internets first one-stop […]

Its no secret that powering and keeping cool ever-enlarging data centers has become a serious pain point for enterprises—particularly those with anywhere from 100 to thousands of servers. Power-allocation limitations are beginning to suffocate an increasing number of IT centers. By the end of the decade, warns a recent Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory report (in […]

Consumer/small-office storage vendor Hammer Storage on March 22 introduced a new appliance resembling a microwave oven that provides 1TB of data storage—for a retail price of $499. The appliance, called Myshare 1TB, is the first release in a new product line now being developed by Hammer, a division of Bell Microproducts. Myshare comes with two […]