Chris Preimesberger

CA introduced a new set of software, services and training programs June 27 that aim to help its customers implement and automate yet another set of regulations, IT Infrastructure Library best practices. The ITIL (Information Technology Infrastructure Library) is a framework of best-practice approaches intended to facilitate the delivery of high-quality IT services. These procedures […]

SAN FRANCISCO—BloggerCon IV: Now here is one event at which a person with a laptop computer can set it down on a table or chair in a roomful of strangers, go to get a cup of coffee or a bottle of water, and not have to worry about whether someone will run off with it […]

Security appliance maker Blue Coat Systems had a big day June 23, announcing a $42 million investment by venture capital firms Francisco Partners and Sequoia Capital and using an unspecified portion of the money to acquire the assets of the NetCache business from its Sunnyvale, Calif., neighbor, Network Appliance. NetApps NetCache product line is a […]

EAST PALO ALTO, Calif.—Cyber-criminals are multiplying quickly and becoming more sophisticated in the ways in which they take advantage of unwitting Internet individual users and companies, a nationally recognized cyber-security specialist told an SD Forum seminar audience June 22. And peer-to-peer networks such as Limewire, Kazaa, Grokster and others arent helping to quell the increase […]

EAST PALO ALTO, Calif.—IBM on June 22 released two new free software security tools for Java software developers—one that improves protection of data moving through Java-based network applications and another that automatically embeds data encryption at its origin point. IBM has made the tools available for free download via AlphaWorks, its developer-oriented Web site that […]

The white hats and the black hats are taking sides in the streets of storages Dodge City, loading their six-shooters for a possible clash over industry standards. With data storage and so-called ILM (information lifecycle management) becoming hotter than the weather this summer, industry leaders are jockeying for position and political clout, much like the […]

Corporate e-mail storage vendor LiveOffice of Torrance, Calif. said June 21 that it has added fully integrated, Web-based mailbox management and business continuity features to its flagship product, AdvisorMail, which is aimed at the financial services market. The new functions in AdvisorMail 5.0 provide continuous user access to fresh and archived message data, even if […]

STANFORD, Calif.—Sun Microsystems may not have made a profit for nearly five years, but the struggling IT infrastructure giant isnt shying away from giving some dollars back to the ol alma mater now and then—especially when it fits a long-term agenda item of its own. Stanford University President John Hennessy and a couple of Stanford […]

Quantum revealed June 20 that it has increased the capacities of several of its disk-based backup appliances, added new functionality to them and yet decreased their pricing, in an ambitious ploy to get the attention of the SMB market. The announcement was made on the opening day of the Storage World conference in Long Beach, […]

After a two-year absence, Sun Microsystems is getting ready to rejoin a blade server space that is becoming a key battleground for top-tier OEMs. IBM and Hewlett-Packard—which on June 14 unveiled a new blade server architecture—are continuing their two-horse race at the top of the market, while Dell later this month will launch the latest […]

Rackable Systems, a maker of high-density storage servers with basic software features for large-scale data centers, introduced on June 19 several new additions to its family of rack-mount products. The Milpitas, Calif., company, which sold Google its first 10,000 servers in 1999, builds servers that can be connected to produce storage capacity as high as […]

Data storage giant EMC revealed on June 19 that it has purchased ProActivity Software Solutions, its third acquisition in six weeks. ProActivity, based in Newton, Mass., is a privately held provider of content management software for BPM (business process management). ProActivity provides tools to monitor, analyze and optimize business processes that treat business processes as […]