Chris Preimesberger

SAN FRANCISCO—Intel Chief Technology Officer Justin Rattner gave about 2,000 software developers a glimpse of the future of data centers—and perhaps of all IT instruments—Sept. 26 during the opening session of the Intel Developers Forum here at the Moscone Center West. Intel, together with researchers from the University of California-Santa Barbara, had announced on Sept. […]

Open-source backup and recovery software maker Zmanda on Sept. 25 introduced what it claims to be the first comprehensive, enterprise-class backup and recovery software designed specifically for MySQL databases. Zmanda Recovery Manager for MySQL is the first backup and recovery solution that meets the specific requirements of MySQL database administrators and also provides enterprise-class backup […]

Fujitsu Computer Systems, trying hard to establish a foothold in the U.S. enterprise-class SAN market, will introduce a series of new storage systems Sept. 26 that the company claims feature the worlds largest-capacity drives. Fujitsus new Eternus 8000 and Eternus 4000 systems, which compete directly with offerings from IBM, Hewlett Packard and EMC, come equipped […]

Flash memory is more than simply a hot commodity—it is rapidly blazing up all the market charts. The overall flash memory market is growing quickly, and the NAND (high-end) flash market in 2005 alone totaled $10.8 billion, up a whopping 63 percent from 2004. Industry analytics firm iSuppli in El Segundo, Calif., estimates the market […]

Most data storage news these days is all about open systems storage—networks that link up to thousands of servers and desktop machines. IBM, however, is one of those few companies still working on improving the venerable mainframe computer model. Big Blue unveiled some new heavy metal backup for those big machines Sept. 21 with the […]

BOSTON—No business user really cares about IT infrastructure. All they want is for something to work, and work well. They do not care how it works. As cold and dire as those statements may seem, they are true on an everyday basis, said storage analyst Steve Duplessie, founder and senior analyst of Enterprise Strategy Group, […]

SAN FRANCISCO—Which so-called Web 2.0 site will become the next MySpace.com, Facebook or Flickr? Wouldnt you—along with all those savvy IT venture capitalists in those fancy BMWs—like to know? Well, TechCrunch.com founder and attorney Michael Arrington seems to know, and he was willing to share this valuable information at the first Future of Web Apps […]

BOSTON—Its easier than one might think to identify when a particular technology or methodology is hot—just Google around for all the conferences springing up around it. Data storage, it all its forms, is precisely that hot IT subject right now. With the proliferation of data in dozens of formats, the increased demands placed on its […]

After two years of planning/development and the importation of intellectual property from three of its recent acquisitions, storage giant EMC on Sept. 18 introduced a new set of enterprise products and services designed to provide automation for intelligent file management. EMC, of Hopkinton, Mass., becomes the first large OEM to enter its own home-brewed product, […]

Seagate Technology, citing major research and development strides in improving areal density of hard drive disks, claimed on Sept. 15 that it has set a data storage world record of 421G bits per square inch in revealing the results of a magnetic recording demonstration. A hard drive with that kind of areal capacity could carry […]