Chris Preimesberger

An IT analyst reported a significant drop in the number of Fortune 1000 companies that plan to spend more budget dollars on SANs in 2006, TheInfoPro reported June 15 in its twice-yearly Storage Networking and Management study. Storage consolidation and productivity—and not increased spending—are emerging as trends for the survey participants, said Robert Stevenson, managing […]

Enterprise and mobile software maker Sybase, needing to round out its data integration software product set, announced June 14 that it has acquired Hamburg, Germany-based Solonde, a privately held provider of leading-edge products for data integration and interface management needs. A Sybase spokeswoman said it was an all-cash transaction for an undisclosed amount that closed […]

E-mail storage management company Azaleos and its partners IBM and Microsoft introduced a new specialized appliance June 14 that aims to lower the operation and maintenance costs of the notoriously complex Microsoft Exchange e-mail server. Azaleos BladeMail, announced at Microsoft TechEd in Boston, is a turnkey, stand-alone e-mail appliance based on IBM BladeCenter hardware and […]

SAN FRANCISCO—Sun Microsystems first entered the blade server market back in spring 2004 with the launch of the SPARC-powered Sun Fire B1600 and the B100/200 lines. They had heat and I/O problems and werent exactly a roaring success, and they made little impact in a market since dominated by IBM and Hewlett-Packard. Two years later, […]

IT management software provider CA filled a major gap in its product offerings June 13 by acquiring MDY Group International, a small but leading-edge provider of enterprise records management software and services. CA and MDY did not disclose terms of the transaction. MDYs signature product, FileSurf, automates and centrally manages physical and electronic records distributed […]

Samsung and Toshiba on June 5 introduced their largest storage disk drives yet—Samsung with two new 400GB desktop/server drives and Toshiba with a 200GB drive for laptops and notebooks. Samsungs SpinPoint T133 Series disk drives are aimed at small businesses and the home-user market. “Utilizing 133GB per-platter technology, these best-of-breed [drives] open up a new […]

Data management software maker CommVault announced an advance in its data recovery management software June 12 with the availability of new features for the QiNetix 6.1 Unified Data Management suite. This new feature set, called RecoveryDirector 6.1, combines the functionality of the Oceanport, N.J.-based companys QuickRecovery and Galaxy Backup and Recovery software products. The new […]

Network Appliance announced June 12 that it has broken a standard network file system performance record using the first version of its new operating system for clustered NAS. Going up against the industrys SPEC (Standard Performance Evaluation Corp.) SFS97_R1 benchmark, 24 nodes of NetApps new Data ONTAP GX high-performance operating system worked together under a […]

The worldwide storage software market grew in double digits again—10.2 percent year over year to $2.4 billion in the first quarter of 2006—marking 10 consecutive quarters of double-digit year-over-year growth, IDCs Worldwide Quarterly Storage Software Tracker reported June 12. In Q1 of 2006, the storage replication market demonstrated a 15.2 percent year-over-year growth. In addition, […]

Software security and storage specialist Symantec June 7 announced an agreement with IBM to port its Veritas Cluster Server, Veritas Storage Foundation family and NetBackup recovery technology to IBMs Linux on POWER platform, opening a new door to the open-source enterprise storage market. As a result of this port, Symantecs Data Center Foundation products are […]

Seagate Technology on June 7 introduced 10 new disk drives designed to store and distribute digital content across a wide range of devices and applications on demand. These new products, most of which use the industrys hot new perpendicular recording technology, include 1.8-inch, 2.5-inch and 3.5-inch hard drives with up to 750GB of capacity, and […]

High-end network storage hardware/software maker BlueArc revealed June 6 that it has landed $29 million in equity financing, led by new investor Morgenthaler Ventures and including financial support from existing BlueArc investors and new investors Chevron Technology Ventures and Wasatch Advisors. This funding will enable BlueArc, of San Jose, Calif., to expand its field sales […]