Chris Preimesberger

Moonwalk, an Australia-based creator of what it calls “all-inclusive data management and protection software,” made its U.S. debut April 11 with the introduction of its Moonwalk 6.0 software suite. Moonwalks software uses no middleware, yet automates and proactively manages the migration, copying and movement of data transparently throughout the enterprise, CEO Peter Harvey told eWEEK. […]

The Green Grid, a nonprofit consortium based in Portland, Ore. and dedicated to cutting the use of ITs single most precious resource—electricity—announced on April 10 plans for a technical summit to be held April 18-19 in Denver. The summit, the first event the organization will host since its formal launch on Feb. 26, is expected […]

Messaging security, storage and compliance provider LiveOffice Managed Messaging Services April 9 introduced its Sentinel e-mail portal, a web-based administration console that enables organizations to search and retrieve archived messages for e-discovery purposes, while also providing real-time views of inbound threats, e-mail volumes and storage utilization. LiveOffices new client portal acts as mission control for […]

Intel, the worlds largest microprocessor maker, has been granted a few more days to explain how it is trying to locate a long list of missing e-mails in the legal discovery phase of a 2-year-old court battle initiated by its major competitor, Advanced Micro Devices. A U.S. District judge on March 7 originally gave Intel […]

Storage system maker Nexsan Technologies and virtualization software provider Reldata announced April 4 that they have produced a unified IP SAN/NAS storage package that includes storage area network-level data replication over wide-area networks. The new product combines Nexsans SATABeast array with the Reldata 9240 IP Storage Gateway, resulting in an enterprise-class storage system that aims […]

Following a highly successful word-of-mouth entrance into the market, online data backup provider Berkeley Data Systems officially launched April 3 a business-oriented version of Mozy, its hosted storage service. The MozyPro remote backup service, which Berkeley DS founder and CEO Josh Coates said already has signed up more than 2,500 businesses, is similar to its […]

Former Vice President Al Gore told Embedded Systems Conference keynote attendees in San Jose, Calif. today that energy-efficient IT systems of the future—many containing embedded processors—will be a major factor in helping overcome the climate problems the Earth is now facing. “Embedded systems can be the key part of this,” the self-styled “recovering politician” Gore […]

Launchpad.net 1.0, a new collaborative Web site and service package designed to improve the flow of communication between developers on different software projects, began public beta testing April 2. Launchpad joins a well-established group of online open-source development sites and communities that include SourceForge.net, CollabNet and FreshMeat.net, among others. Registration to be a beta tester […]

Nearly five years after the original lawsuit was filed, data integrator Informatica was awarded $25 million April 2 by a jury in the San Francisco federal court against a Business Objects subsidiary, Acta. The award was based on the finding that business intelligence provider Business Objects willfully infringed on two Informatica patents in selling its […]

Data Domain, which makes storage appliances for disk-based backup and network-based disaster recovery, filed a Form S-1 registration statement late on March 30 for an initial public offering of as much as $100 million in common stock. Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, Thomas Weisel Partners LLC Pacific Crest Securities will underwrite the IPO, according to a […]