Chris Preimesberger

Data warehouse giant Teradata on Dec. 13 introduced a new suite of data-mining software for enterprises that it says significantly automates data preparation and accelerates performance of its partners data-mining tools. Teradata Warehouse Miner 5.0 lets users advance beyond simply describing what their customers did last quarter to predicting future buying behavior, a company spokesperson […]

Paper-to-digital data storage provider Kofax has introduced a new product suite that integrates the scanning of physical documents directly into a companys electronic transactional business processes. Kofax, based in Irvine, Calif., claims its new Kofax Intelligent Capture and Exchange Suite enables organizations to quickly link the ever-increasing volume of paper-based information with electronic business activities […]

Storage area network provider Hitachi Data Systems couldnt acquire competitor BlueArc, so instead the two companies revealed a five-year OEM partnership Dec. 11 that already has resulted in a new product: the Hitachi High-Performance NAS Platform. The two neighboring companies have been working for months behind the scenes on the new NAS system and the […]

Backup/recovery and archiving hardware and software provider Quantum on Dec. 11 introduced its first disk-based backup package that incorporates native data deduplication and replication software. The new DXi3500 and DXi5500 appliances are the first products resulting from Quantums $770 million acquisition of ADIC (Advanced Digital Information Corp.) in August 2006, Quantum director of enterprise product […]

With power consumption and heat generation becoming key concerns in corporate data centers, server OEMs and chip makers have been vocal in the moves theyve made to make their products more energy-efficient. Now, storage vendors are beginning to roll out new products and services designed to help enterprises reduce the amount of power being consumed […]

EMC maintains a comfortable lead in the worldwide storage software market over second place Symantec, according to survey numbers released Dec. 11 by IT researcher IDC. However, third place IBM and fourth place NetApp are gaining ground in leaps and bounds, with NetApp showing a startling 61 percent revenue growth over a year ago and […]

Dell and Microsoft, not well-known for data storage products, indicated Dec. 6 that they want to improve their market share in that sector and seriously compete in the $30 billion market that is currently led by Hewlett Packard, EMC, NetApp and IBM. In a joint announcement at the Storage Decisions conference in Las Vegas, the […]

IT infrastructure giant Hewlett Packard contributed to a growing industry trend Dec. 4 when it introduced two new direct-attached storage products aimed at businesses that want to organize their data with an entry-level storage system. According to researchers IDC, Enterprise Strategy Group and Gartner/Dataquest, more and more data storage companies are taking enterprise-level storage, archiving […]

Its only Tuesday, yet its already been quite a week for LSI Logic. The Milpitas, Calif.-based maker of data storage systems and hard-drive processors Dec. 4 acquired a company and then Dec. 5 introduced new storage system technology aimed at the SMB market that it will supply to its OEM partners. LSI Logic, which has […]

Ziff Davis Media, parent company of eWEEK, will present a virtual trade show titled “Disk-to-Disk Backup and Recovery,” to be held Dec. 6 at Internet-enabled computers. Doors “open” online at 9 a.m. EST, and opening remarks begin at 10 a.m. EST. The free-of-charge, half-day, live, interactive event, sponsored by Symantec and Network Appliance, will focus […]

E-mail management provider MessageOne introduced a new version of its flagship e-mail continuity product Dec. 5 that features integration with Microsoft Outlook and enables users to continue sending and receiving e-mail without interruption in the event of a server outage. MessageOnes EMS (Email Management Services) Email Continuity service is the only e-mail continuity package that […]

Network storage software maker Exanet is offering an intelligent enterprise package that uses system virtualization to provide automated data storage and delivery services across a wide range of enterprise platforms. By harnessing commodity storage hardware into a virtual single unit, ExaStore-ICM (Intelligent Cluster Management), announced Nov. 27, offers interoperability by providing support for NFS (Network […]