Chris Preimesberger

Permabit Technology, which specializes in highly scalable, tiered storage appliances for large enterprises, Aug. 10 introduced a new version of its software/hardware package aimed specifically at cloud storage providers.The new Permabit Cloud Solution’s base configurations can handle up to a whopping 144TB of raw disk capacity and are “tuned” for use by cloud storage service […]

Fujitsu on Aug. 7 revealed that it has completed deployment of a new clustered supercomputer for Japan’s Institute of Physical and Chemical Research, or RIKEN, that the company claimed was benchmarked as the fastest HPC system in Japan.Fujitsu said the new supercomputer system achieved a LINPACK benchmark performance of 97.94 teraflops. Compared with other cluster […]

Storage virtualization and disaster recovery provider DataCore Software said Aug. 6 that it has joined with Citrix Systems to distribute a free virtual storage area network appliance for IT managers to test out. The Virtual SAN Appliance software will enable IT shops that use Citrix’s virtual server tools to test out DataCore’s storage software at […]

The phone rang a few weeks ago at JMR Electronics, in Chatsworth, Calif. On the line was a company called Lowry Digital, of nearby Burbank, Calif., a pioneering expert in film and video restoration. Lowry Digital was working on a rather unusual deadline job at the request of NASA: The 1969 video from the Apollo […]

And so the race for capaciousness continues. The data storage company with the longest official name, Hitachi Global Storage Technologies, claimed Aug. 6 that it is now shipping the world’s first 2TB 7,200-rpm hard disk drive. It employs five platters in one unit to supply the 2TB capacity. Kinds of reminds me in a funny […]

10 Best Practices for Implementing Cloud Storage by Chris Preimesberger No Title Know your options: Private versus public clouds—which strategy is right for your organization? The simplest way to describe these two options is: Public cloud means storing your information and running your application on the Internet; private cloud means having this capability in-house, which […]

Cluster Resources, which developed the Moab unified automation software and opened for business in 2001, announced Aug. 5 that it is changing its name to Adaptive Computing and launching a new version of its product.The company, which has tight partnerships with IBM and Hewlett-Packard in the HPC (high-performance computing) space, also said it is enlarging […]

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.-Federal CTO Aneesh Chopra made his first visit to Silicon Valley Aug. 4 and said he generally wants to speed up the pace of IT innovation and, in particular, new IT procurement and deployment-not only in the government, but also in health care and education.Chopra, selected in May by President Barack Obama, also […]

News item: Disk drive maker Seagate Technology, busy cutting costs along with everybody else in the struggling world economy, said Aug. 4 that it will have to shut the doors of its Singapore hard disk-drive manufacturing plant by the end of 2010. About 2,000 workers will lose their jobs, although some of them will be […]

Intel, which on July 21 launched the world’s first 34-nanometer solid-state NAND flash drives for desktop and laptop computers, acknowledged Aug. 4 that there are problems with the X25-M processor firmware that comes with them but said that a fix already has been found.When users try to change or remove a previously set BIOS password […]