Chris Preimesberger

Disk and tape storage vendor Overland Storage on April 20 reported that it has reduced its work force by 14 percent worldwide and reorganized its executive lineup to reduce costs. The San Diego company said that, in addition to other spending cuts which are still being formulated, it has reduced its employee work force by […]

Mozilla today released the final version of Thunderbird 2, the next generation of the organizations open-source e-mail client. Key new features include message tagging, message history, and a new function to search for content within messages, among numerous other enhancements. The major new features, according to a Mozilla spokesperson, are: Message tagging—users can organize e-mails […]

SAN DIEGO—Data archive and backup provider Spectra Logic on April 18 proposed a new angle on consolidation by introducing a kind of storage Swiss army knife: a multipurpose backup/archive/disk/tape server. The Boulder, Colo., company, which specializes in products for Tier 2 and 3 storage, made the announcement to a small group of journalists and analysts […]

SAN DIEGO—Sun Microsystems, struggling to keep up with powerhouses Hewlett-Packard, Network Appliance, EMC, IBM and others in an effort to gain share in the exploding SMB storage market, announced April 17 at Storage Networking World here that it is making available its first serial-attached SCSI array. And it has put the products largest value proposition […]

SAN DIEGO—IBM on April 16 announced two recycled entry-level storage systems and a spate of services to go with them on the first day of Storage Networking World, one of the data storage industrys largest conferences of the year. The new storage packages are actually enhanced configurations of the IBM System Storage DS3200 and DS3400, […]

SAN DIEGO—Intel, joining an ever-growing crowd of companies touting data storage systems, introduced on April 16 at Storage Networking World here the industrys first storage server to be based on quad-core processors. The new rack-mounted Intel Storage Server SSR212MC2 is powered by the quad-core Intel Xeon processor 5300 series and can be configured as a […]

SAN FRANCISCO—The sporting eyes of the world will be on AT&T Park this baseball season. Five years after playing in the World Series against the Los Angeles Angels, the resident San Francisco Giants reworked their lineup during the off-season to make another run at the National League pennant, including signing starting pitcher Barry Zito to […]

Data storage vendor NetApp and e-mail management appliance maker Azaleos announced April 12 that they have united to provide a new enterprise-class messaging hardware/software package for SMBs that use Microsoft Exchange servers. Azaleos OneServer2 appliance and OneStop managed services basically separate the flow of e-mail from the storage apparatus and act like a traffic cop […]

This will come as no surprise to anybody following the data storage market: Hewlett-Packard is focusing a substantial corporate effort to win the small-to-medium business sector over to its new, simplified products. Part of the reason for this concerted SMB campaign, analysts surmise, may be that HP is slowly but surely losing market share to […]

EMC brought deduplication to the attention of the IT world with its $165 million acquisition of startup Avamar Technologies in November 2006. Officials with the Hopkinton, Mass., company said this technology was one of the last pieces of the storage puzzle it did not own. Since then, most all storage vendors have been acquiring the […]