Chris Preimesberger

Hewlett-Packard, determined to assert itself in a rapidly escalating scramble against IBM and EMC for small and midsize businesses, announced on July 24 a bevy of new storage products and services expressly aimed at that market. HP boosted its frontline StorageWorks server portfolio with new, improved firmware for its entry-level and midrange disk array offerings. […]

IBM on July 21 began selling a retooled version of its high-performance Tivoli enterprise data protection software to home and small-business customers via online distributors. The company said its the first time a Tivoli product has been made available to a mass market. IBM, of Armonk, N.Y., said that its real-time data backup software, IBM […]

Seagate Technology strengthened its No. 1 sales position in the worldwide hard disk drive market in the first quarter of this year even before the company recorded its acquisition of No. 4-ranked Maxtor, market researcher iSuppli reported July 20. The company also improved its standing despite stronger-than-expected overall demand and competition throughout the industry, an […]

It was a busy week for new product releases in the enterprise data storage business, with several major vendors introducing new packages or enhancements to existing ones. NetApp Integrates Shadow Tape Backup with Other Vendors Products Network Appliance announced July 19 it is integrating its NearStore VTL Shadow Tape backup product with Veritas NetBackup and […]

SAN FRANCISCO—Intel finally has its dual-core Itanium 2 chip out on the market. The question now becomes whether “Montecito” is the technology that will invigorate the architecture, or if it will become another in a long line of expensive Itanium processors that yield relatively disappointing results. The Santa Clara, Calif., chip maker launched the Itanium […]

Due to the sheer volume of digital video content being created each day by the broadcast and television networks and independent production facilities, all play-to-air content that has been ingested into digital systems is being stored in in-house servers. But while the content is increasingly being distributed online, virtually none of it is being stored […]

Everyone has a favorite wide-screen movie memory. Maybe it is Darth Vader breathing loudly through his words in “Star Wars”; Yoda offering sage advice to Luke Skywalker in “The Empire Strikes Back”; or Rhett Butler carrying Scarlett O’Hara up the stairs in “Gone with the Wind.” These images might be etched forever in our minds, […]

Sun Microsystems next steps into the world of x86 servers simultaneously include ventures into the most competitive area of the market and another space essentially abandoned by rivals. The Santa Clara, Calif., systems maker on July 11 rolled out the latest of its Opteron-based Galaxy servers, including a blade server and another system that can […]

IBM, Hewlett-Packard, and EMC went 1-2-3 in 2005 as the most successful individual companies in worldwide storage services market share, according to a report released July 5 by Gartner Dataquest analyst Adam W. Couture to clients and made public July 17. Big Blue, EMC, and Sun Microsystems ranked 1-2-3 in the regional “Americas” ranking, with […]

Software security provider McAfee revealed July 14 that it fixed a serious flaw in its enterprise security package Common Management Agent in January 2006 with a regular update (v3.5.5) and didnt even realize it. Common Management Agent is McAfees flagship technology for managing protective software in large organizations. John Viega, McAfees chief security architect, told […]

Data storage giant EMC on July 14 reported its financials for the second quarter of 2006, and, although total revenue was 10 percent higher than a year ago, demand for EMC products continues to be strong, and company morale is said be good, all was still not well. During the conference call, CEO, President and […]

Imation announced on July 13 that it is making its new Blu-ray media disks available to major IT and data storage channel partners. The announcement came at Imations “Blue Technology” conference at its headquarters in Oakdale, Minn. Imation becomes the 14th media manufacturer to begin producing disks in the Blu-ray Disc format. The others are […]