Chris Preimesberger

Toshiba revealed Aug. 22 that it will soon add three new high-density flash memory cards to its product lineup—including one it touts as the worlds first 32GB flash card. The Tokyo-based company, which partners with SanDisk to produce SanDisk High Capacity cards, also announced a 16GB SDHC card and an 8GB microSDHC card. All the […]

Colleges Getting Proactive on Disaster Communication”> When any kind of weather system enters the Gulf of Mexico, Casey Paquet and the emergency management team at Eckerd College in St. Petersburg, Fla., make it their business to watch very closely. In the event of a hurricane or other emergency, Paquet—Web manager at the 1,800-student, private liberal […]

StorageCraft Technology, a provider of disk-based backup and disaster recovery for Windows-based servers, desktops and laptops, announced on Aug. 22 upgrades to its two frontline backup and disaster recovery software products. ShadowProtect Server Edition 3.0 and ShadowProtect Desktop Edition 3.0 both include the companys “secret sauce,” HIR (hardware-independent restoration). HIR allows IT administrators to back […]

Iron Mountain announced Aug. 21 that it has opened its first data center in Toronto, Canada and will offer online PC and server backup through it as hosted services. The new center is the third wholly owned data center built and operated by Iron Mountain; the others are in the United States and in the […]

Data backup, recovery and archive provider Quantum on Aug. 20 introduced an extension to its intelligent data management software product line that it says enables customers to more effectively manage their data protection infrastructure across distributed environments. The new addition, StorageCare Vision, is designed for companies with remote or branch offices where data protection processes […]

More evidence that deduplication software continues to be a hot data storage property was revealed Aug. 20 when Diligent Technologies announced that it has completed $10.5 million in Series D venture capital funding, bringing the total amount raised to date to $46.5 million. New investor Eastward Capital joins existing investors Matrix, Accel Partners and Gemini […]

During the last week, the talk on the street about struggling BEA Systems has become more concentrated on not if the company will be acquired, but when it will be acquired. The rumors first surfaced a full year and a half ago within the futuristic, rounded blue glass walls of its main application server and […]

RSA revealed its intent Aug. 9 to acquire Tablus, a data loss prevention vendor adding to RSAs security portfolio the ability to identify sensitive data and find it in places where it shouldnt be stored. Neither party would disclose details of the deal, but executives expected RSAs acquisition of Tablus, which is based in San […]

STANFORD, Calif.-When Steve Sams looks into the not-so-distant future, he can see a time when data centers will no longer be the power-consuming beasts they are now. And when he looks around now, he sees the seeds of those self-contained data centers already being sown. “We do have a number of data center components now […]

American Express Bank International learned an expensive lesson when it agreed on Aug. 6 to pay a stiff penalty to the federal government after admitting that it failed to install and maintain anti-money-laundering software at its Miami office. The bank, which has about $1 billion in assets, must fork over a whopping $65 million, including […]