Chris Preimesberger

Mozilla on March 20 released new security and stability updates for both versions of its Firefox browser and for its Internet application suite, SeaMonkey. The new updates eradicate a minor FTP PASV port-scanning vulnerability, a Mozilla spokesperson said. A malicious Web page hosted on a specially coded FTP server could exploit this weakness to perform […]

Data recovery provider FarStone Technology has launched an inexpensive new suite of applications designed for small and midsize businesses that tend to have problems losing data stored on their computers. FarStones bread-and-butter product, RestoreIT, takes a troubled computer back to the state it was in before the problem occurred, so that users can pick up […]

Enterprise network-attached storage vendor Agámi Systems, which specializes in live file system replication, has unveiled a new version of its NAS-based Information Server appliance that includes support for iSCSI connectivity, among other improvements. The new Agámi Information Server also will support advanced enterprise storage management capabilities and data protection offerings for iSCSI applications, a company […]

AMCC rolled out a powerful new 24-port RAID controller March 19—the first of its kind in the industry—that can safeguard data against two simultaneous drive failures. Applied Micro Circuits now offers the broadest line of PCI Express-to-SATA II (Serial ATA II) RAID controllers, with 2-, 4-, 8-, 12-, 16- and now 24-port offerings, a company […]

Overland Storage March 19 introduced a new disk-based backup, recovery and VTL (virtual tape library) appliance for small- to mid-size businesses as an alternative to similar disk storage packages produced by larger companies, such as HP, IBM and NetApp. The REO 1500 is a complete package that aims to ensure reliable, unattended backups and near-instantaneous […]

Those little blue flash cards that store photos and video clips in digital cameras and camcorders keep adding more capacity as users keep creating more content. SanDisk, which invented the SD-format flash storage card, on March 16 introduced an 8GB SD High Capacity (SDHC) version—twice that of the highest capacity now available in the familiar […]

Data storage infrastructure maker Adaptec has introduced a new set of Unified Serial RAID controllers for the PCI Express interface—including the industrys first 12- and 16-port models. The five new products include standard four- and eight-port models and are designed for bandwidth-intensive applications, such as media servers, e-mail databases and application servers. These Unified Serial […]

Storage infrastructure vendor Emulex on March 15 introduced a new appliance for data centers that provides acceleration for SAN-based storage virtualization applications. Emulex, based in Costa Mesa, Calif., made the announcement in Hannover, Germany on the opening day of the annual CeBIT IT conference. The Model 765 platform is a 1U system with four Fibre […]

Iron Mountain, best known as the company that trucks away data tape cassettes to safe archive locations, has been building its digital managed services package for a few years and now has completed it with the March 12 launch of its e-mail management software package. The Framingham, Mass. companys Active Archiving Service for Email, supplied […]

Electronic discovery software provider Attenex launched March 12 an online resource center consisting of white papers, case studies, Web seminars and industry analyst reports in an effort to assist IT departments with integrating e-discovery workflow into an overall data management strategy. The resource center, which includes reports from leading industry analysts such as Barry Murphy […]

Removable storage media maker Imation introduced a first-of-its-kind data storage tracking system March 12 using radio frequency identification tags so data center managers can more efficiently track the location of data cartridges within their own inventory. The new DataGuard rf Tape Tracking System is designed to help account for the inventory location of all cartridges. […]

EMC, IBM and Hewlett Packard continue to lead the world pack in the data storage industry in terms of revenue and market share in all the major categories, according to numbers released March 12 in IDCs Worldwide Disk Storage Systems Quarterly Tracker report. For the full year, the total disk storage systems market posted 6 […]