Chris Preimesberger

It’s possible you’ve never heard of Red Gate Software, based in Cambridge, England, but it has just released a backup software package specifically for SQL Server that you may want to know about — even if you’re not a database admin or storage manager. SQL Backup Pro 6 features improved “network resilience to recover interrupted […]

Industry analysts and vendors are predicting that solid-state disks for computing and storage are the wave of the future for laptop computers, and for a lot of reasons.As NAND flash capacities continue to get higher-Toshiba has a 512GB laptop available, and 1TB units are only months away-they become more and more useful for both business […]

Storage management software provider Acronis July 9 launched a new edition of its front-line product that includes a deduplication option.Backup & Recovery 10 enables the automation of backup and disaster recovery processes across physical and virtual environments, including physical to virtual migration capabilities, in a single software package.It has been redesigned for scalability and easier […]

eWEEK’s esteemed Labs team has come out with a close-up, slide show look at the DXi7500, Quantum’s flagship disk-based backup and data deduplication package. The slide show includes a look inside Quantum’s Colorado Springs, Colo., assembly facility, something you don’t get to see every day. There’s also a detailed product analysis and review just published […]

In the wake of what certainly had to be a crushing blow to NetApp’s strategic plans-not to mention its corporate ego-when EMC outbid it for Data Domain, the question remaining is this: What happens next for NetApp, the network-attached-storage pioneer that used to be known as simply a “good little file server maker”?“Regroup, don’t rush […]

Office products and services retailer Office Depot has announced a deal with DriveSavers Data Recovery to offer professional data recovery services to its customers nationwide. In the event that a storage drive — such as a computer hard drive, USB drive or media card — fails, and critical data is lost, Office Depot customers now […]

Online backup services are getting creative in their sales and marketing methods.The next time you download new or updated Java networking software for a handheld connected device, laptop or desktop computer, you’ll be offered a free 30-day trial of Carbonite, a Web service that offers unlimited data backup for monthly ($4.95) or yearly ($55) windows […]

NetApp on July 8 said it is dropping out of the race to acquire Data Domain in light of EMC’s most recent offer of $2.1 billion to buy the storage deduplication provider.In an announcement released at the same time, Data Domain’s board of directors agreed to accept EMC’s offer to acquire all outstanding shares of […]

There’s no question that whether EMC or NetApp ends up owning storage deduper Data Domain, the top bidder will have paid far too much for the company. DD’s value has tripled artificially in the last 100 days—due strictly to the intense bidding war between the two storage rivals. It’s like an auction for a piece […]

Much of the world stopped what it was doing July 7 to watch the Michael Jackson memorial event in downtown Los Angeles on live television. But another huge number of fans also viewed the event on the Web and commented on it to their friends — using such services as Facebook, Twitter, FriendFeed and other […]