Chris Preimesberger

EMC, the world leader in several data storage markets and the worlds sixth-largest software company, is being forced to tighten its belt and lose some weight—in the form of extra employees—after 36 months of digesting other companies in order to fill out its product offerings. The Hopkinton, Mass., company reported its third-quarter financials Oct. 17, […]

Data protection and storage specialist Data Domain Oct. 9 introduced what it claims to be the industrys first data center-scale deduplicating protection storage array. Deduplication is a method by which all redundant copies of data and files are eliminated in order to improve overall data accessibility and drive down operational costs. Powered by the new […]

eHarmony.com, that romantic cyber-space place where people meet and often get serious relationships off and running, has been a textbook example of a successful Web 2.0 company since it made its debut six years ago. With more than 8 million users, Pasadena, Calif.-based eHarmony claims to be the Internets fastest-growing relationship service. It stores background […]

Former Apple Chief Financial Officer Fred Anderson resigned Oct. 4 from the companys board of directors following a three-month investigation into alleged irregularities in the way the company distributes stock options to executives. Mr. Anderson, who served as CFO from 1996 until 2004, informed the company that he believes it is “in Apples best interests […]

Thanks to new levels of competition in the market sector, storage devices continue to get smaller in footprint and less expensive—while offering increased capacity and more desirable features, such as auto-backup and encryption. The latest example of this IT storage bonanza for consumers is Buffalo Technologys new DriveStation Duo, which features USB 2.0 and FireWire […]

SANTA CLARA, Calif.—Microsoft announced Sept. 28 that Intel has joined it in an initiative to get its proposed Office Open XML format standard approved by an international standards body. The Office Open XML format standard for documents—a more than 4,000-page, 6.7MB Microsoft Word document—is less of a standard and more of a detailed description of […]

SAN FRANCISCO—Chip-making partners Intel and Emulex each introduced new storage processors Sept. 27 at the Intel Developer Forum that can work hand-in-hand to serve market segments ranging from small and midsize businesses to Fortune 100 enterprises. Intel, in Santa Clara, Calif., unveiled its IOP34x family of microprocessors, which integrate a number of features: advanced data […]

SAN FRANCISCO—Intel, which long ago built its considerable reputation on desktop, server and mainframe microprocessors, also has quite an agenda when it comes to mobile computing, and it isnt shy about telling everybody about it. David “Dadi” Perlmutter, senior vice president and general manager of Intels Mobility Group, offered a large audience of Intel Developer […]

Microsoft is well-known for many things, but data storage and replication are not among them. But it is beginning to make a move in that market. The worlds largest software company, based in Redmond, Wash., introduced on Sept. 27 the public beta of its System Center Data Protection Manager version 2 at the Storage Decisions […]

SAN FRANCISCO—IBM gave its online cutting-edge ideas department, AlphaWorks.com, a 10-year birthday party here Sept. 25, and at the same time introduced AlphaWorks Services, a new way to give businesses access to emerging technologies being developed at IBMs labs. AlphaWorks founder John Patrick, an author and former IBM vice president who is now president of […]

SAN FRANCISCO—Intel Chief Technology Officer Justin Rattner gave about 2,000 software developers a glimpse of the future of data centers—and perhaps of all IT instruments—Sept. 26 during the opening session of the Intel Developers Forum here at the Moscone Center West. Intel, together with researchers from the University of California-Santa Barbara, had announced on Sept. […]

Open-source backup and recovery software maker Zmanda on Sept. 25 introduced what it claims to be the first comprehensive, enterprise-class backup and recovery software designed specifically for MySQL databases. Zmanda Recovery Manager for MySQL is the first backup and recovery solution that meets the specific requirements of MySQL database administrators and also provides enterprise-class backup […]