Chris Preimesberger

Fujitsu Computer Systems, trying hard to establish a foothold in the U.S. enterprise-class SAN market, will introduce a series of new storage systems Sept. 26 that the company claims feature the worlds largest-capacity drives. Fujitsus new Eternus 8000 and Eternus 4000 systems, which compete directly with offerings from IBM, Hewlett Packard and EMC, come equipped […]

Flash memory is more than simply a hot commodity—it is rapidly blazing up all the market charts. The overall flash memory market is growing quickly, and the NAND (high-end) flash market in 2005 alone totaled $10.8 billion, up a whopping 63 percent from 2004. Industry analytics firm iSuppli in El Segundo, Calif., estimates the market […]

Most data storage news these days is all about open systems storage—networks that link up to thousands of servers and desktop machines. IBM, however, is one of those few companies still working on improving the venerable mainframe computer model. Big Blue unveiled some new heavy metal backup for those big machines Sept. 21 with the […]

BOSTON—No business user really cares about IT infrastructure. All they want is for something to work, and work well. They do not care how it works. As cold and dire as those statements may seem, they are true on an everyday basis, said storage analyst Steve Duplessie, founder and senior analyst of Enterprise Strategy Group, […]

SAN FRANCISCO—Which so-called Web 2.0 site will become the next MySpace.com, Facebook or Flickr? Wouldnt you—along with all those savvy IT venture capitalists in those fancy BMWs—like to know? Well, TechCrunch.com founder and attorney Michael Arrington seems to know, and he was willing to share this valuable information at the first Future of Web Apps […]

BOSTON—Its easier than one might think to identify when a particular technology or methodology is hot—just Google around for all the conferences springing up around it. Data storage, it all its forms, is precisely that hot IT subject right now. With the proliferation of data in dozens of formats, the increased demands placed on its […]

After two years of planning/development and the importation of intellectual property from three of its recent acquisitions, storage giant EMC on Sept. 18 introduced a new set of enterprise products and services designed to provide automation for intelligent file management. EMC, of Hopkinton, Mass., becomes the first large OEM to enter its own home-brewed product, […]

Seagate Technology, citing major research and development strides in improving areal density of hard drive disks, claimed on Sept. 15 that it has set a data storage world record of 421G bits per square inch in revealing the results of a magnetic recording demonstration. A hard drive with that kind of areal capacity could carry […]

Suddenly, tape in old-fashioned cassettes-technology that is, um, 55 years old-has become the new turf in the latest war between two very progressive IT giants. Santa Clara, Calif.-based Sun Microsystems made a special trip to New York Sept. 13 to introduce a spate of new products, including new device-level tape encryption with key management for […]

Business intelligence provider Business Objects revealed Sept. 12 that it will acquire privately held Armstrong Laing—a provider of profitability management and activity-based costing solutions—for about $56 million in an all-cash transaction. Armstrong Laing, based in Atlanta, is also known as ALG Software. Its BI offerings will help fill out the current Business Objects catalog. The […]

IBM introduced what it called the data security markets “first comprehensive tape encryption solution” Sept. 12 with its new Encryption Key Manager, which stores and encrypts data—and the keys that open the data—on high-density tape cassettes. The Encryption Key Manager enables users to encrypt data on the tapes, whether they are using IBM mainframes or […]

EMC continues to enjoy a substantial lead in both market share and total revenue in the worldwide storage software market, but third-place IBM is increasing its year-over-year revenue growth at a surprising rate, according to a quarterly report released Sept. 11 by IDC. EMC, based in Hopkinton, Mass., owned 26 percent of the world storage […]