Chris Preimesberger

Data storage management software provider Onaro introduced on Dec. 4 a new version of its flagship product, SANscreen Foundation version 3.5, which offers a more detailed view of the storage systems role in an enterprise system. The new release provides infrastructure teams with the ability to align their storage infrastructure with an applications requirements at […]

Message archiving and compliance provider LiveOffice revealed Dec. 1 that it will offer what is in effect “sale pricing” through Dec. 29 for its e-mail compliance package to organizations preparing for the new amendments to the FRCP (Federal Rules of Civil Procedure), which go into effect Dec. 1. The new amendments apply to any organization—commercial […]

IT infrastructure giants Hewlett-Packard and EMC continue to remain the two biggest sellers of hardware in the spinning disk storage industry, depending upon which category of disk is referenced. In a third-quarter report released by IT researcher IDC on Dec. 1, HP leads the total worldwide disk (internal and external) storage systems market with 22.7 […]

CA is in the process of delivering records management, e-mail archiving and electronic data discovery software and services that will support the new capabilities of Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007. In addition, the company formerly known as Computer Associates, based in Islandia, N.Y., announced Nov. 30 support for Windows Vista, 2007 Office and Exchange Server […]

To the surprise of few industry observers, data storage and IT infrastructure giant EMC Nov. 30 announced that its networked storage systems, software, services and solutions will fully support the next generation of Microsoft products, including Exchange Server 2007, the 2007 Office system and Windows Vista. EMC will work closely with customers it shares with […]

Data security and storage provider Symantec continued its concerted push into the data center automation space Nov. 29 by introducing two key new features to augment its Veritas Server Foundation product-an application director and a patch manager. Symantec, of Cupertino, Calif., also announced that it has updated both its Veritas Configuration Manager and Veritas Provisioning […]

The One Laptop Per Child project Nov. 27 received its first shipment of the low-cost Linux laptops that are intended for children in emerging-economy nations, project member Chris Blizzard reports on his blog. “Today we received the first large shipment of laptops from the factory,” Blizzard, a Fedora Core developer who is working with the […]

Data management and protection provider CommVault introduced a software enhancement Nov. 28 that it claims improves the speed and accuracy of legal search and discovery of e-mail housed on Microsoft Exchange servers. Using this new feature—called Outlook Add-In—within an existing CommVault DataArchiver installation, legal or compliance teams now can directly search and retrieve messages from […]

U.S. businesses are going to have to change the way they handle electronically stored information when new federal rules go into effect Dec. 1. The new regulations, adopted by the U.S. Supreme Court in April, say businesses must be able to quickly find such data when required by the federal court. That means that every […]

IBM is filling a hole in its catalog of storage hardware and software for small and midsize businesses and is extending its relationship with Network Appliance to continue providing new products for the same market. The Armonk, N.Y., company announced Nov. 16 that it is rolling out a new midrange N-series (for NetApp) storage system […]

Network storage software maker Exanet on Nov. 27 introduced a new 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) offers interoperability by providing support for NFS, CIFS […]

Mendocino Software on Nov. 21 introduced InfiniView, a new software product that enables customers to create and use one or more data images—or “virtual views”—of current production data for a number of concurrently running functions. Those uses may include rapid application recovery, testing, development, data analytics, reporting, data staging or any off-host processing tasks where […]