Chris Preimesberger

Storage hardware and software maker Hitachi Data Systems on Jan. 22 introduced what it called “significant” performance enhancements in its mid-range Hitachi Adaptable Modular Storage AMS1000 that it claims boosts the systems processing power by about 20 percent. Hitachis new multi-processor design in the AMS1000 augments the storage systems business-enabling capabilities first unveiled in April […]

Storage provider 3PAR on Jan. 19 took the idea of “greening” the data center a step further by announcing that for every terabyte of its Thin Provisioning storage capacity it sells in 2007, 3PAR will purchase the equivalent cost in so-called “carbon credits” to help offset the greenhouse gas emissions of the disk drives required […]

Continuing its strategy to add more products to its SMB storage catalog, IBM Jan. 16 introduced two entry-level-priced disk arrays with high-end, integrated management software boasting functionality previously found only in much larger systems. Big Blues announcement comes at a time when competing storage vendors, such as NEC, EMC, Quantum, Sun Microsystems and HP, are […]

LSI Logic, one of the few IT companies that develops and makes storage chips, software and hardware, started shipping in mid-January the newest addition to its lineup of enterprise-class SAN systems for OEM partners: a direct-attached storage array that can transition into a SAN with minimal reconfiguration. The Fibre Channel-connective Engenio 1932, which features a […]

Data storage and security provider Symantec on Jan. 17 began shipping Veritas Storage Foundation 5.0 High Availability for Windows, a feature-packed enterprise storage software package that delivers high-end data and application availability for Microsoft Windows environments. It combines two existing products—Storage Foundation for Windows and Veritas Cluster Server—for the first time with enhanced usability tools […]

Data retrieval and security provider Permabit on Jan. 16 began shipping through resellers new enterprise data management and archiving software designed specifically to work on storage servers laid out in a grid system. Grid computing provides higher overall throughput for an enterprise by leveraging a number of networked computers to distribute computing power across an […]

Data warehousing provider teradata, which has operated as part of ATM-making giant NCR since 1995, is splitting off into its own corporate entity in a transaction the company expects to take six to nine months to complete. The tax-free spinoff, announced Jan. 8, will produce two publicly traded companies: Teradata and NCR, which will retain […]

SAN FRANCISCO—Outside of Apples introduction of the iPhone earlier this week, there really werent that many breakthrough-type products at the Macworld Conference and Expo, which ended Jan. 12. But one of the few was a new data storage software system exclusively for Mac OS X produced by a small and relatively unknown software developer and […]

The calm discussion between Apple and Cisco Systems over the product name iPhone that started in 2001 may turn into an unpleasant legal tussle if its not settled out of court, because the two companies remain staunch that they each have the right to use it. Apple CEO Steve Jobs on Jan. 9 introduced what […]

In what could be a preview of the future of laptop computers, a group of top hardware companies have banded together to tout the benefits of hybrid hard drive technology to computer makers and users. And it wont hurt their own bottom lines if the new computers become hot commodities. The Hybrid Storage Alliance, introduced […]