Chris Preimesberger

Microprocessor manufacturer Advanced Micro Devices waited until after business hours July 6 to announce that it has cut its sales forecast for Q2, saying it expects income from its chips to fall 9 percent from its first-quarter results. The Sunnyvale, Calif., company had previously forecast that sales would be flat to slightly down from the […]

Sun Microsystems and Imation said July 5 that they have agreed to jointly develop and launch a new version of the Sun StorageTek T9840 drive platform. The product is scheduled for delivery in early 2007 and aims to increase the capacity of its half-inch tape cartridges to 75GB from the current 40GB, a 53 percent […]

While analysts have been all over the dartboard judging the value of data storage giant EMC’s $2.1 billion cash purchase of RSA Security, investors at the New York Stock Exchange reacted very sharply, as EMC’s stock price tumbled 7 percent the day after the merger was announced. “They paid an awful lot of dollars,” Steve […]

PC maker Gateway, not well-known for its storage portfolio, introduced three additions to its line of enterprise data storage products June 29—a storage area network and two automated tape backup systems. The E-842R is an entry-level SAN in a rack-optimized storage enclosure. The E-824R DLT-V4 SuperLoader 3 and E-826R automated tape backup systems incorporate more […]

The executive trickle-down effect—which started with Jonathan Schwartz replacing Scott McNealy as CEO in April—is delving deeper into Sun Microsystems, which said June 29 that it has reconfigured its storage division and named a new vice president to run the storage marketing operation. The Santa Clara, Calif., company has consolidated its tape, disk, software, storage […]

An IBM-led group of 10 data storage vendors initiated an open-source project on the Eclipse Foundation community Web site June 28 to build a new API for developing software that manages storage devices and the networks in which they reside. The group, Aperi (from the Latin, meaning “to open”), was founded in the fall of […]

CA introduced a new set of software, services and training programs June 27 that aim to help its customers implement and automate yet another set of regulations, IT Infrastructure Library best practices. The ITIL (Information Technology Infrastructure Library) is a framework of best-practice approaches intended to facilitate the delivery of high-quality IT services. These procedures […]

SAN FRANCISCO—BloggerCon IV: Now here is one event at which a person with a laptop computer can set it down on a table or chair in a roomful of strangers, go to get a cup of coffee or a bottle of water, and not have to worry about whether someone will run off with it […]

Security appliance maker Blue Coat Systems had a big day June 23, announcing a $42 million investment by venture capital firms Francisco Partners and Sequoia Capital and using an unspecified portion of the money to acquire the assets of the NetCache business from its Sunnyvale, Calif., neighbor, Network Appliance. NetApps NetCache product line is a […]

EAST PALO ALTO, Calif.—Cyber-criminals are multiplying quickly and becoming more sophisticated in the ways in which they take advantage of unwitting Internet individual users and companies, a nationally recognized cyber-security specialist told an SD Forum seminar audience June 22. And peer-to-peer networks such as Limewire, Kazaa, Grokster and others arent helping to quell the increase […]