Chris Preimesberger

IBM, the worlds largest IT company, and supercomputer builder Cray were notified Nov. 21 that they will be awarded nearly $500 million in contracts by the Pentagons Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to build next-generation, multi-petaflop computers. Reuters reported that as Wall Street heard the news Crays stock shares rose 31 percent to $13.04 on […]

Data storage infrastructure provider Brocade Communications Systems reported a sharply higher quarterly profit on Nov. 21, largely due to increased growth in its storage area network division, which led the way to a 43.5 percent rise in revenue over a year ago. The company, based in San Jose, Calif., reported financial results for its fourth […]

Data deduplication, which eliminates redundant data throughout a storage network, is one of the hottest new technologies in the data storage industry. The fact that data storage giant EMC did not have a deduplication strategy within its product line was a major hole-that is, until this month. The company, based in Hopkinton, Mass., on Oct. […]

Content-addressed storage provider Caringo Nov. 16 introduced the beta version of a new file system gateway that it claims gives systems integrators and ISVs a simpler way to deploy high-end CAS architectures for business applications. Content-addressable storage, also referred to as associative storage or abbreviated CAS, is a mechanism for storing information that can be […]

Fiber optics and SAN test and measurement provider Finisar on Nov. 16 unveiled its NetWisdom Enterprise, a family of SAN monitoring and analysis products and services that storage administrators can use to increase application availability in enterprise environments. NetWisdom Enterprise was created to eliminate so-called “fabric blindness,” or the inability to look deeply into the […]

IBM on Nov. 16 filled a hole in its catalog of storage hardware and software for small and midsize businesses and extended its relationship with Network Appliance to continue providing new products for the same market. The announcement involved a new midrange N series (for NetApp) storage system as well as expanded virtualization interoperability and […]

STANFORD, Calif. — Philanthropist Bill Gates is able to take things a little slower these days, since he doesnt have to worry anymore about the day-to-day irritations of running a major multinational corporation. He mostly thinks about how to give his — and colleague-in-cash Warren Buffetts — money away for the betterment of mankind through […]

Storage server maker Rackable Systems on Nov. 14 introduced a new cluster file system storage appliance designed specifically for large-scale Linux computing environments. The RapidScale SA3100 appliance, which attaches directly to the network, is designed to smooth out I/O bottlenecks commonly associated with legacy NAS (network-attached storage) systems and delivers a single file system package […]

Data security and storage provider Symantec announced a new API Nov. 14 that offers enterprise developers a way to connect Symantecs backup software with other companies disk drives. The new interface, called the Symantec NetBackup OpenStorage API, will enable high-end, intelligent disk devices from several different companies to integrate natively with NetBackup, Symantecs popular enterprise […]

SANTA CLARA, Calif.—Although it may get some disagreement from IBM, SourceForge.com and Linus Torvalds, Sun Microsystems laid claim to being the worlds largest contributor to the open-source software community Nov. 13 by turning over millions of lines of Java code to the governance of the GNU General Public License, v2.0. And not a moment too […]

To those long-suffering open-source developers who have been waiting for years to venture unencumbered into Java code and tweak it to their hearts content, Sun Microsystems has three things to say: G, P and L. Sun on Nov. 13 released at www.sun.com/java all versions of Java-Standard, Enterprise and Micro Edition-under GNU GPL (General Public License) […]

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.—Back in May at JavaOne, Sun Microsystems President Jonathan Schwartz and Canonical Ltd. Founder and President Mark Shuttleworth—creator of the Ubuntu distribution of GNU/Linux—promised to do a lot of business in the coming months. Their promise is holding quite true six months later. Sun and Canonical, a two-year-old U.K.-based commercial sponsor of the […]