Chris Preimesberger

The shocking events of Sept. 11, 2001, will always haunt us, but they’re also helping the video security business big-time right now. As one might imagine, George Orwell’s Big Brother is now well ensconced–make that accepted–in our daily lives, let’s face it. Before 9/11, people were much more apt to get riled up and file […]

One month to the day after announcing the impending arrival of vSphere 4, virtualization market leader VMware on May 21 released for general availability the latest version of its industry-leading hypervisor development package.vSphere 4 is the first major upgrade to VMware’s main product in three years. The Palo Alto, Calif.-based company is dubbing vSphere 4 […]

NetApp surprised the data storage market in a big way on May 20 with the announcement that it intends to acquire rival Data Domain for about $1.5 billion.Funny, we may have had a premonition about this here at eWEEK, and didn’t realize it. Storage Station, our storage news blog, had NetApp and Data Domain in […]

Two of the world’s most successful independent data storage companies, NetApp and Data Domain, announced May 20 that they are merging in a $1.5 billion cash and stock transaction.NetApp will acquire Data Domain by paying $25 for each share of common stock. The $1.5 billion deal, which is net of cash in Data Domain’s accounts, […]

This item is a bit strange. McAfee, the world’s second-largest IT security company behind RSA Security, said May 18 that it plans to partner with storage giant EMC to offer online PC backup services. This is odd for this reason: EMC already owns a security division (RSA, as a matter of fact). Why would it […]

Elementary and high school districts are always under pressure from parents, school board members, teachers unions, truant trackers–you name it. My hat’s off to district superintendents; this is no job for the faint of heart. Anyway, there’s another headache for these long-suffering folks to ponder: increasing attacks on school IT systems from cyberhackers. And, it […]

NAND flash storage maker SanDisk, down in the dumps after reporting a $1.9 billion loss in the fourth quarter of 2008, apparently is back on the road to financial black ink.CEO Eli Harari on May 19 told attendees of the Reuters Global Technology Summit in New York that 2009 could well be “significantly better” for […]

Hard disk and solid-state storage make more headlines, but digital tape — while a dwindling market overall — is still a major production standard for a great number of enterprise users. Sun Microsystems, Tandberg, Imation, Quantum and others continue to invest in its development. For example, Sun on May 19 unveiled new capacity and performance […]

It took longer than many industry observers thought, but telco giant AT&T announced May 18 that it intends to offer cloud-based storage services for enterprises. EMC, which is busy this week with its annual EMC World users’ conference in Orlando, Fla., will supply the hardware, software and services behind the new offering. Thus, AT&T jumps […]

In a report released May 18 that ostensibly takes roll of everything digital-up to and including the calendar year ending at midnight, Dec. 31, 2008-IDC and EMC estimate the so-called digital universe to be 487 billion gigabytes in size, give or take a few bytes.Apparently to get a head start on next year’s universal digital […]