Chris Preimesberger

IBM, Hewlett-Packard, and EMC went 1-2-3 in 2005 as the most successful individual companies in worldwide storage services market share, according to a report released July 5 by Gartner Dataquest analyst Adam W. Couture to clients and made public July 17. Big Blue, EMC, and Sun Microsystems ranked 1-2-3 in the regional “Americas” ranking, with […]

Software security provider McAfee revealed July 14 that it fixed a serious flaw in its enterprise security package Common Management Agent in January 2006 with a regular update (v3.5.5) and didnt even realize it. Common Management Agent is McAfees flagship technology for managing protective software in large organizations. John Viega, McAfees chief security architect, told […]

Data storage giant EMC on July 14 reported its financials for the second quarter of 2006, and, although total revenue was 10 percent higher than a year ago, demand for EMC products continues to be strong, and company morale is said be good, all was still not well. During the conference call, CEO, President and […]

Imation announced on July 13 that it is making its new Blu-ray media disks available to major IT and data storage channel partners. The announcement came at Imations “Blue Technology” conference at its headquarters in Oakdale, Minn. Imation becomes the 14th media manufacturer to begin producing disks in the Blu-ray Disc format. The others are […]

The July 11 merger of two medium-size enterprise data security companies into a formidable, $250 million-per-year corporation could create a new force in the enterprise gateway security market to compete head-on with such established players as Symantec and Trend Micro, analysts say. Security appliance maker Secure Computing, based in San Jose, Calif., announced after market […]

Analysts were surprised by the news July 10 that EMC had readjusted its outlook for the second quarter and blamed its misread on an “unfavorable inventory mix” due to a high number of late orders for two of its storage systems. Shares of EMC, based in Hopkinton, Mass., fell nearly 7 percent to close at […]

Sun Microsystems is coming out with the latest of its Opteron-based Galaxy servers, including its first system that will give the hardware maker a presence in the fastest growing and highly competitive blade space. At an event in San Francisco July 11, Sun officials—including CEO Jonathan Schwartz, Executive Vice President of Systems John Fowler and […]

Iomega, whose inexpensive external Zip and Jazz storage disk drives peppered the SMB landscape in the early part of the decade, announced July 11 that it has acquired CSCI, a privately held managed services and IT outsourcing company. Iomega CEO Jonathan Huberman, who joined the San Diego-based company in February, told eWEEK that the transaction […]

CA extended its already substantial storage management portfolio July 11 with the acquisition of privately held XOsoft, a provider of disaster recovery software. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. The acquisition is CAs third in the last three months, following similar buyouts of automated job scheduling provider Cybermation and MDY Group International, a provider […]

EMC president and CEO Joe Tucci said his companys decision to buy RSA Security for $2.1 billion makes sense in a world where data continues to grow and security is a constant concern. And while financial and industry analysts were mixed in their views on the acquisition—why pay so much for a company that made […]