Chris Preimesberger

Not to be upstaged by rival SanDisk, Koreas Samsung said March 27 that it plans to roll out a 64GB, 1.8-inch solid state drive sometime this spring for its OEM partners. Back in January, SanDisk, of Milpitas, Calif., introduced a 32GB SSD that can be used as a drop-in replacement for a standard spinning-disk hard […]

Two leading IT think tanks estimate that 5.6 million hard drives will fail in 2007, and chances are fair to good that one or more of them might well be yours. So a new company has decided to step in and help out. Data Recovery Whos Who on March 28 launched the Internets first one-stop […]

Its no secret that powering and keeping cool ever-enlarging data centers has become a serious pain point for enterprises—particularly those with anywhere from 100 to thousands of servers. Power-allocation limitations are beginning to suffocate an increasing number of IT centers. By the end of the decade, warns a recent Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory report (in […]

Consumer/small-office storage vendor Hammer Storage on March 22 introduced a new appliance resembling a microwave oven that provides 1TB of data storage—for a retail price of $499. The appliance, called Myshare 1TB, is the first release in a new product line now being developed by Hammer, a division of Bell Microproducts. Myshare comes with two […]

Mozilla on March 20 released new security and stability updates for both versions of its Firefox browser and for its Internet application suite, SeaMonkey. The new updates eradicate a minor FTP PASV port-scanning vulnerability, a Mozilla spokesperson said. A malicious Web page hosted on a specially coded FTP server could exploit this weakness to perform […]

Data recovery provider FarStone Technology has launched an inexpensive new suite of applications designed for small and midsize businesses that tend to have problems losing data stored on their computers. FarStones bread-and-butter product, RestoreIT, takes a troubled computer back to the state it was in before the problem occurred, so that users can pick up […]

Enterprise network-attached storage vendor Agámi Systems, which specializes in live file system replication, has unveiled a new version of its NAS-based Information Server appliance that includes support for iSCSI connectivity, among other improvements. The new Agámi Information Server also will support advanced enterprise storage management capabilities and data protection offerings for iSCSI applications, a company […]

AMCC rolled out a powerful new 24-port RAID controller March 19—the first of its kind in the industry—that can safeguard data against two simultaneous drive failures. Applied Micro Circuits now offers the broadest line of PCI Express-to-SATA II (Serial ATA II) RAID controllers, with 2-, 4-, 8-, 12-, 16- and now 24-port offerings, a company […]

Overland Storage March 19 introduced a new disk-based backup, recovery and VTL (virtual tape library) appliance for small- to mid-size businesses as an alternative to similar disk storage packages produced by larger companies, such as HP, IBM and NetApp. The REO 1500 is a complete package that aims to ensure reliable, unattended backups and near-instantaneous […]

Those little blue flash cards that store photos and video clips in digital cameras and camcorders keep adding more capacity as users keep creating more content. SanDisk, which invented the SD-format flash storage card, on March 16 introduced an 8GB SD High Capacity (SDHC) version—twice that of the highest capacity now available in the familiar […]