Chris Preimesberger

IBM on Oct. 30 announced it is adding six new machines to its enterprise tape storage portfolio and is enhancing some optional features for its enterprise line of disk arrays—including the introduction of a new flexible-choice warranty option. The new products and services, announced on the eve of Storage Networking World in Orlando, Fla., augment […]

eBay, like Xerox and Google, is fast becoming its own generic verb for what it does (“Oh, just eBay it”). And when a company itself becomes the name for what it does, then a certain level of success has been reached. Make that a very high level of success. Among Web 2.0 companies, San Jose, […]

Data storage chip and software maker LSI Logic announced late on Oct. 25 that it has acquired Israeli firm StoreAge Networking Technologies, in a cash deal worth about $50 million. StoreAge Networking Technologies, a privately held company based in Nesher, Israel, with U.S. offices in Irvine, Calif., provides SAN storage management and multi-tiered, data protection […]

SAN JOSE, Calif.-If Cisco Systems and its effervescent president and CEO, John Chambers, are right-and they have been right a lot of the time-the company’s new TelePresence system or something like it will indeed become a killer app for business, education, government and even consumer use. On the surface, TelePresence doesn’t sound like it would […]

High-performance computer/server maker SGI, which emerged from five months of Chapter 11 bankruptcy in mid-October, wasted no time in refocusing its agenda on business development by launching two new storage products Oct. 24. Mountain View, Calif.-based SGI (formerly Silicon Graphics Inc.) introduced two NAS (network-attached storage) appliances, the InfiniteStorage NAS 4550 and the InfiniteStorage NAS […]

Data storage provider EMC, in an effort to save some face as soon as possible after a third-quarter financial report that wasnt well received, announced a set of new products Oct. 23 to try to change the subject. Companies often wait until major trade shows to make new-product announcements. Storage Networking World, set for Oct. […]

Theres a new enterprise resource planning kid on the block, and it appears to be spoiling for a fight. The company, based in Sliedrecht, Netherlands, is called Unit 4 Agresso—a name that fits its overall attitude quite well, as it prepares to challenge powerful ERP market leaders Oracle, SAP and Microsoft. Unit 4 Agresso is […]

Microsoft is hooking up with IBM for the first time to help large companies handle an increasingly worrisome problem: e-mail archiving for e-discovery, legal and audit reasons. Starting Oct. 19, Microsoft and its channel partners are to begin recommending a new IBM e-mail archiving product to enterprise customers through an extensive business partner program that […]

Gear6, a 2-year-old Menlo Park, Calif., startup that makes an appliance that accelerates NAS/NFS deployments, announced mid-October it is testing a beta version of the industrys first centralized storage caching product for the data center. This marks the first time that high-capacity, high-performance cache can be deployed as a scalable, shared network resource, a company […]

MENLO PARK, Calif.-Sun Microsystems is so eager to become a larger player in data storage and data centers that it threw away the book this week regarding the way it usually announces new products. Normally, the Santa Clara, Calif.-based IT hardware/software giant waits until just before a product is ready to go to work in […]