Chris Preimesberger

EMC, a juggernaut in the data storage industry since the beginning of the decade, widened its overall lead in the controller-based disk storage market in 2006, increasing its market share to 24.8 percent in 2006 compared with 23.4 percent in 2005, according to statistics released this week by Gartner Inc. Worldwide ECB (external controller-based) disk […]

Samsung on March 7 shipped what it called the “worlds first hybrid hard drive” to the commercial marketplace, but it will get an argument from Dynamic Network Factory, which started shipping its own hybrid storage hard drive on Feb. 1. Hybrid hard disks combine a standard disk drive with solid state—usually NAND flash-based—random-access memory in […]

Intel is facing some big-time legal problems in its 2-year-old legal tussle with a major competitor, AMD—largely because its own internal e-mail archiving system apparently isnt doing the job. A U.S. federal judge on March 7 gave the worlds largest microprocessor maker 30 days to try to recover about 1,000 lost e-mails that it was […]

Clustered storage software maker Isilon Systems, known for helping power such Web 2.0 companies as MySpace.com, on March 5 unveiled the data storage industrys first software application that enables automated data migration between multiple tiers of clustered storage. MigrationIQ, the latest addition to Isilons standard suite of intelligent clustered storage software applications, provides large enterprises […]

NetApp had a busy day March 5, announcing the worldwide launch of a new Cisco Systems switch designed for its own storage area networks and a new midrange SAN or network-attached storage system that can also be used as a virtualization platform. Ciscos MDS 9124 Multilayer Fabric Switch for NetApp SANs, designed to be coupled […]

Data storage titan EMC enhanced its already-quite-profitable relationship with another IT giant, Microsoft, March 5 with the launch of new software and services designed to augment the performance of SQL Server 2005 and Exchange Server 2007. EMC is now offering SQL Server enterprise users advanced optimization, planning and data recovery services, a company spokesperson said. […]

PC maker Gateway, which has been focusing more of its resources on the storage hardware business in the 18 months, launched on March 1 five new network-attached storage rack-mounted devices, the first new additions to its line of enterprise data storage products since June of last year. The new NAS packages feature Microsoft Windows Storage […]

SAN JOSE, Calif.—Mobile phones that can predict your requests? A 3-D Internet? Health care from a doctor half a world away? These things might become everyday occurrences sooner than you might imagine. At a recent open house in San Jose, Calif., IBM Labs showed a group of journalists and analysts some of the technologies in […]

Cisco Systems Linksys division, best known for making Wi-Fi hardware for home offices and small businesses, introduced its first line of network-attached storage products Feb. 26. The four new network storage systems all include four-bay gigabit network connectivity and are designed in modules for future expansion, said David Tucker, Linksys senior director of product marketing. […]

Hewlett-Packards engineers keep cranking out data storage product after product for small to midsize businesses and larger companies with small remote offices. On Feb. 26, the Palo Alto, Calif., computer/server maker introduced a modestly priced (under $3,000) disk-based backup and recovery system that automates backup to provide data protection for as many as four servers […]

Hewlett-Packard said late on Feb. 26 it has agreed to acquire privately owned PolyServe, a Beaverton, Ore.-based provider of storage virtualization software for application and file-serving utilities. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Palo Alto, Calif.-based HP expects the transaction to close within 60 days. PolyServe, which has 117 employees, will be integrated into […]

Mozilla on Feb. 23 released updated versions of the Firefox browser, v1.5.0.10 and v2.0.0.2, for Windows, Mac and Linux, which include the fix for a major security flaw. The “location.hostname” vulnerability potentially allowed hackers to tamper with authentication cookies for third-party sites, manipulating how Web sites are displayed and how they operate, Mozilla said. /zimages/6/28571.gifClick […]