Chris Preimesberger

The disk drive industry had big news to celebrate on Oct. 12. Drs. Albert Fert and Peter Grünberg were awarded the $1.5 million 2007 Nobel Prize for physics by discovering GMR (giant magnetoresistance)—a key physical technology now widely used in HHD (Hybrid Hard Drive) development and manufacturing. GMR is a quantum mechanical effect observed in […]

As demand for green data centers continues to rise, some smaller vendors are looking to build components that will reduce the amount of heat that servers generate and the amount of power they consume. Multiple forces—from more dense servers to smaller and more powerful processors to the rising cost of energy—are conspiring to drive up […]

Copan Systems joined on Oct. 10 an ever-growing list of storage companies offering deduplication, adding the technology to its virtual tape library solution, the Revolution 300 series, a MAID-based product line. Deduplication eliminates redundant data—down to sections of individual files—throughout a storage network and enables the system to run faster and more cost-effectively. EMC, Hewlett-Packard, […]

CA is moving into the information governance business that so far has been dominated by the likes of Symantec, EMC and Zantaz. CAs new Information Governance package, announced Oct. 8 and assembled with products from two recent acquisitions and an OEM partner, is designed to handle a companys compliance, legal and business requirements by providing […]

Big EMC and little Berkeley Data Systems made official Oct. 4 what eWEEK reported on Sept. 24: They are now betrothed. The Hopkinton, Mass.-based data storage and infrastructure giant now has its own online storage property. And BDS, a small company that offers the Mozy Home and Mozy Pro subscription backup plans for free or […]

Appro, a relatively unknown but highly regarded provider of high-performance enterprise computing systems, announced Oct. 2 that three major federal weapons labs will purchase and install its Xtreme-X high-performance computing clusters. This is the first time, under a single contract, that the three labs—Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Los Alamos National Laboratory and Sandia National Laboratories—will […]

Pillar Data Systems Oct. 3 introduced its first 1-terabyte Serial ATA disk drive, for use in its frontline Axiom storage system. Pillar OEMs its new drive from Hitachi Global Storage Technologies. On Jan. 5, Hitachi unveiled what it claimed to be the industrys first 1TB hard drive, the Deskstar 7K1000. Seagate Technology and Western Digital […]

Data protection provider Iron Mountain announced on Oct. 2 the acquisition of RMS Services-USA, a $27 million records management company and a major provider of outsourced file room services for hospitals. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Known since 1951 as the company that trucks away enterprise data tape cassettes to safe archive locations, […]

NEW YORK—If youre an IT manager considering a major storage buy, there are a few things you should be sure to take into consideration. According to Bill Peldzus, director of storage architecture at the Glasshouse Technologies consultancy in Framingham, Mass., there is a list of important items you must include in the overall company strategy […]

NEW YORK—SGI has been making data storage products for about two decades, but officials really havent been able to talk about them much until recently. Why? Because the CIA, Secret Service, science labs and other whispered-about organizations have largely made up its customer base, and SGI officials will not talk officially about them. Guess who […]