Chris Preimesberger

Data storage infrastructure maker Adaptec has introduced a new set of Unified Serial RAID controllers for the PCI Express interface—including the industrys first 12- and 16-port models. The five new products include standard four- and eight-port models and are designed for bandwidth-intensive applications, such as media servers, e-mail databases and application servers. These Unified Serial […]

Storage infrastructure vendor Emulex on March 15 introduced a new appliance for data centers that provides acceleration for SAN-based storage virtualization applications. Emulex, based in Costa Mesa, Calif., made the announcement in Hannover, Germany on the opening day of the annual CeBIT IT conference. The Model 765 platform is a 1U system with four Fibre […]

Iron Mountain, best known as the company that trucks away data tape cassettes to safe archive locations, has been building its digital managed services package for a few years and now has completed it with the March 12 launch of its e-mail management software package. The Framingham, Mass. companys Active Archiving Service for Email, supplied […]

Electronic discovery software provider Attenex launched March 12 an online resource center consisting of white papers, case studies, Web seminars and industry analyst reports in an effort to assist IT departments with integrating e-discovery workflow into an overall data management strategy. The resource center, which includes reports from leading industry analysts such as Barry Murphy […]

Removable storage media maker Imation introduced a first-of-its-kind data storage tracking system March 12 using radio frequency identification tags so data center managers can more efficiently track the location of data cartridges within their own inventory. The new DataGuard rf Tape Tracking System is designed to help account for the inventory location of all cartridges. […]

EMC, IBM and Hewlett Packard continue to lead the world pack in the data storage industry in terms of revenue and market share in all the major categories, according to numbers released March 12 in IDCs Worldwide Disk Storage Systems Quarterly Tracker report. For the full year, the total disk storage systems market posted 6 […]

EMC, a juggernaut in the data storage industry since the beginning of the decade, widened its overall lead in the controller-based disk storage market in 2006, increasing its market share to 24.8 percent in 2006 compared with 23.4 percent in 2005, according to statistics released this week by Gartner Inc. Worldwide ECB (external controller-based) disk […]

Samsung on March 7 shipped what it called the “worlds first hybrid hard drive” to the commercial marketplace, but it will get an argument from Dynamic Network Factory, which started shipping its own hybrid storage hard drive on Feb. 1. Hybrid hard disks combine a standard disk drive with solid state—usually NAND flash-based—random-access memory in […]

Intel is facing some big-time legal problems in its 2-year-old legal tussle with a major competitor, AMD—largely because its own internal e-mail archiving system apparently isnt doing the job. A U.S. federal judge on March 7 gave the worlds largest microprocessor maker 30 days to try to recover about 1,000 lost e-mails that it was […]

Clustered storage software maker Isilon Systems, known for helping power such Web 2.0 companies as MySpace.com, on March 5 unveiled the data storage industrys first software application that enables automated data migration between multiple tiers of clustered storage. MigrationIQ, the latest addition to Isilons standard suite of intelligent clustered storage software applications, provides large enterprises […]