Chris Preimesberger

U.S. businesses are going to have to change the way they handle electronically stored information when new federal rules go into effect Dec. 1. The new regulations, adopted by the U.S. Supreme Court in April, say businesses must be able to quickly find such data when required by the federal court. That means that every […]

IBM is filling a hole in its catalog of storage hardware and software for small and midsize businesses and is extending its relationship with Network Appliance to continue providing new products for the same market. The Armonk, N.Y., company announced Nov. 16 that it is rolling out a new midrange N-series (for NetApp) storage system […]

Network storage software maker Exanet on Nov. 27 introduced a new intelligent enterprise package that uses system virtualization to provide automated data storage and delivery services across a wide range of enterprise platforms. By harnessing commodity storage hardware into a virtual single unit, ExaStore-ICM (Intelligent Cluster Management) offers interoperability by providing support for NFS, CIFS […]

Mendocino Software on Nov. 21 introduced InfiniView, a new software product that enables customers to create and use one or more data images—or “virtual views”—of current production data for a number of concurrently running functions. Those uses may include rapid application recovery, testing, development, data analytics, reporting, data staging or any off-host processing tasks where […]

IBM, the worlds largest IT company, and supercomputer builder Cray were notified Nov. 21 that they will be awarded nearly $500 million in contracts by the Pentagons Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to build next-generation, multi-petaflop computers. Reuters reported that as Wall Street heard the news Crays stock shares rose 31 percent to $13.04 on […]

Data storage infrastructure provider Brocade Communications Systems reported a sharply higher quarterly profit on Nov. 21, largely due to increased growth in its storage area network division, which led the way to a 43.5 percent rise in revenue over a year ago. The company, based in San Jose, Calif., reported financial results for its fourth […]

Data deduplication, which eliminates redundant data throughout a storage network, is one of the hottest new technologies in the data storage industry. The fact that data storage giant EMC did not have a deduplication strategy within its product line was a major hole-that is, until this month. The company, based in Hopkinton, Mass., on Oct. […]

Content-addressed storage provider Caringo Nov. 16 introduced the beta version of a new file system gateway that it claims gives systems integrators and ISVs a simpler way to deploy high-end CAS architectures for business applications. Content-addressable storage, also referred to as associative storage or abbreviated CAS, is a mechanism for storing information that can be […]

Fiber optics and SAN test and measurement provider Finisar on Nov. 16 unveiled its NetWisdom Enterprise, a family of SAN monitoring and analysis products and services that storage administrators can use to increase application availability in enterprise environments. NetWisdom Enterprise was created to eliminate so-called “fabric blindness,” or the inability to look deeply into the […]

IBM on Nov. 16 filled a hole in its catalog of storage hardware and software for small and midsize businesses and extended its relationship with Network Appliance to continue providing new products for the same market. The announcement involved a new midrange N series (for NetApp) storage system as well as expanded virtualization interoperability and […]