Chris Preimesberger

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 […]

Worldwide external disk storage systems factory revenues continue to spiral up, growing 10.3 percent in first quarter of 2006 from a year ago to $4.2 billion, according to IDCs Worldwide Disk Storage Systems Quarterly Tracker report. The 2006 projection of nearly $20 billion is on a fast track to the $65 billion neighborhood by 2010, […]

If Sun Microsystems is going to pull itself out of a five-year financial nosedive, one of the three key areas in which it will need to perform well is data storage-a very competitive market for which the company is not well known. Jonathan Schwartz, speaking in his first public financial briefing as CEO on May […]

IBM continued its steady movement into the SMB storage market and at the same time extended its year partnership with Network Appliance by introducing three new products May 31, including the IBM System Storage N5000 Gateway, which is a NAS gateway specifically for NetApp Fibre Channel-based storage subsystems. The new gateway, which is really a […]

Sun Microsystems is cutting up to 13 percent of its workforce as part of a growth plan designed to return the struggling tech giant back to profitability. About 4,000 to 5,000 of Suns global workforce of about 37,500 will lose their jobs as part of a plan announced May 31 by the Santa Clara, Calif., […]

UK-based Canonical will introduce all-new versions of its popular Debian-based Linuxes—Ubuntu, Kubuntu, and Edubuntu—along with its first enterprise server edition on June 1, a company spokesperson told DesktopLinux.com. The full release of Ubuntu 6.06—code-named Dapper Drake and featuring the latest GNOME desktop—includes both installable live desktop CDs and text-mode install CDs for three architectures. Canonical […]

Data storage giant emc disclosed May 22 that it intends to focus a substantial amount of its resources on what it sees as a growing small and midsize business market in India. The business plan includes the launch of a dozen hardware and software products specifically for the SMB market; the opening of new sales […]

IBM introduced next-generation enhancements to its storage “virtualization engine” software May 25—improvements that help companies move large amounts of data over greater distances at higher speeds and across a number of different platforms. Storage virtualization is a logical view and control of physical storage systems. Enterprise-class virtualization offers high levels of redundancy and advanced data […]

Thirteen months after acquiring IBMs personal computer division for $1.25 billion, Chinas Lenovo Group revealed a fourth-quarter loss May 25 that doubled analysts forecasts. Analysts said the shortfall reflects Lenovos struggles to build itself as a brand. Lenovo, the worlds third-largest PC maker behind Dell and Hewlett-Packard, reported earnings of 32 cents per share on […]

Hewlett-Packard, in step with its recent spate of new storage and data management products and services now available for small and midsize businesses, said on May 24 that it has begun shipping several new or enhanced secure storage offerings for that market. HPs updated “business-protection” portfolio now offers a new virtual tape library system and […]

PC disk-drive maker Seagate Technology wrapped up its months-long acquisition of Fremont, Calif.-based Maxtor on May 22, marking another step in the continued consolidation within the disk drive business. Seagate said it plans to lay off about half of Maxtors 12,000 employees during the rest of calendar 2006. Most of those cuts will occur in […]