Chris Preimesberger

IBM continued its full-court press on the midtier market Nov. 8 with the introduction of two new midrange storage servers designed for companies that use so-called “hardened” infrastructures, due to the industries they serve or the data center environments where the equipment is located. A hardened, or heavy-duty, IT infrastructure is one that utilizes high-end […]

Dell, trying to demonstrate some innovation in a sector where it seeks to pick up market share, introduced Nov. 8 a new removable disk-based storage device for data backup and restore that the company says combines the speed of a hard disk with the portability of tape. Aimed squarely small and midsize businesses, branch offices […]

NetApp revealed Nov. 8 that the Sunnyvale, Calif.-based company intends to acquire neighboring Topio Software, a privately held Santa Clara, Calif.-based company with R&D in Haifa, Israel, for approximately $160 million in an all-cash transaction. The acquisition is expected to close in December. Topio will become a new business unit within NetApp, and its research […]

Because running several virtual servers on one physical machine can be tricky for administrators, data storage and security provider Symantec introduced on Nov. 7 a new server designed to work in clusters and supply native support to data centers running VMwares trendy virtual-server software. Veritas Cluster Server 5.0 for VMware ESX automates remote failover for […]

Rick Belluzzo, CEO and chairman of San Jose, Calif.-based data storage disk/tape drive maker Quantum, sees the IT landscape from many different perspectives. Belluzzo, 53, was a key factor in building Hewlett-Packards considerable reputation in the printer and desktop computer business in the 1990s. He also served as Silicon Graphics CEO from 1998 to 2001 […]

ORLANDO, Fla.—Storage management software maker Onaro announced Nov. 2 that database and IT infrastructure giant Oracle has joined its Service Connections program, which develops solutions to help businesses get new storage service management installations up and running. The Boston-based company revealed the new partnership at Storage Networking World here. Oracle joins Cisco Systems and Hitachi […]

ORLANDO, Fla.—Xyratex, an IBM spinoff that makes storage enclosures for OEMs and software integrators, demonstrated its new line of Serial-Attached SCSI hardware at Storage Networking World here. /zimages/2/153752.jpg SAS provides enhanced performance, reliability and scalability that overcome many of the limitations of traditional parallel iSCSI implementations, Xyratex spokeswoman Lisa Hart told eWEEK. Xyratex, based in […]

ORLANDO, Fla.—A wise-guy robot from Xiotech personally greeted many of the 1,200 visitors to the show floor at the Storage Networking World conference here this week. “Hi there,” the blue-eyed robot said to a reporter who walked up to take a closer look. “Hey, yourself,” the reporter said. “Youve got some pretty big blue eyes […]

ORLANDO, Fla.-EMC, the world market leader in several information management and storage sectors, on Nov. 1 announced a signed agreement to acquire privately held Avamar Technologies, a provider of enterprise-class data protection software that features data deduplication technology. EMC made the announcement at Storage Networking World here. Data deduplication, which eliminates redundant data throughout the […]

Scentric, a developer of what it calls “the worlds first universal data classification solution,” on Oct. 31 launched Scentric Destiny R2, the latest version of its flagship product that aims to solve critical information governance problems through data classification and policy-based data management. Scentric Destiny is the first universal package for cataloging, classifying and controlling […]

ORLANDO, Fla.—Blade server maker Verari Systems Oct. 31 introduced its BladeRack 2 VB5150 Storage Subsystem, which uses a new architecture to address a broad set of network-attached storage requirements in both the high-performance computing and enterprise markets. The San Diego-based company introduced the new system here at Storage Networking World. The VB5150 is the first […]

ORLANDO, Fla.—DataCore Software on Oct. 31 released Traveller CPR (Continuous Protection and Recovery), new advanced continuous data protection and high-availability mirroring software that lets storage administrators roll back to any previous point in time prior to a disaster, virus attack or other disruptive event. DataCore, based in Ft. Lauderdale, Fla., officially will introduce the product […]