Chris Preimesberger

Prices for disk storage hardware keep slipping downward. Who knows when this trend is going to change? Samsung’s and Seagate’s assembly factories in the Far East apparently have become so much faster and more effective in recent years that an oversupply of products is the root cause of this price–and margin–slippage. Good news for the […]

EMC and IBM continue to lead the pack in the storage industry, but trend-type news is being made by three other companies slightly down the list, according to research firm IDC. Dell and Network Appliance continue to gain market share steadily each quarter, while Hewlett-Packard is losing ground, IDC reported March 6 in a report […]

SAN FRANCISCO-How is the data security industry keeping a safe distance ahead of those who revel in stealing information from companies and individuals and using it for their own profit?The current answer is by continually building more business intelligence, developed and collected by security technology companies, into large databases and the latest security products that […]

Storage and networking infrastructure provider Brocade Communications Systems announced March 4 that it is acquiring Strategic Business Systems, a privately held professional services company that specializes in data center design, virtualization and data migration projects. The companies did not disclose the transaction terms.SBS brings industry-respected expertise in the IP networking sector, something that Brocade, centered […]

Portable disk storage drive maker Iomega introduced March 4 its latest and most capacious REV backup product, the REV 120GB Backup Drive, positioning it squarely at small and midsize businesses and remote workgroups.The new drive represents the third generation of the company’s REV technology, which divides its components into a drive bay and a low-cost […]

Storage system component maker Adaptec on March 3 introduced the industry’s first 28-port RAID controller product line, which the company claims can deliver data I/O performance up to five times faster than that of competitors such as LSI Logic, AMCC and Network Appliance.Adaptec’s Series 5 Unified Serial RAID controllers were shown first at the annual […]

SAN FRANCISCO-Sun Microsystems has seen the future of education, and it can be viewed right there on a desktop monitor.Scott McNealy, Sun’s chairman of the board, explained his take on this topic Feb. 28 at Sun’s annual education summit here at the Westin St. Francis. Some 1,000 school district, K-12, college and university IT administrators […]

Sun Microsystems, which is always fighting to come from behind in the storage hardware and software space, is staying on message about the way it is integrating open source and open standards capabilities into all of its products.The company Feb. 28 introduced four new additions to its archive portfolio-two new models and two upgraded versions […]

EMC, owner of the MozyPro online backup service since fall of 2007, sent e-mail notices to its customers on Feb. 25 saying prices for its popular SMB server backup service would be going up substantially on March 1.The e-mail from EMC’s sales department said, “The MozyPro [consumer] desktop offering will maintain the same low monthly […]

Hewlett-Packard, continuing to invest heavily in products for the midrange storage market, Feb. 26 introduced an upgrade of its best-selling Fibre Channel SAN disk array, which ostensibly can be installed and run by IT-savvy employees who are not storage experts. The StorageWorks 4400 Enterprise Virtual Array provides improved capacity (up from 56TB in the previous […]