Chris Preimesberger

PC disk-drive maker Seagate Technology wrapped up its months-long acquisition of Fremont, Calif.-based Maxtor on May 22, marking another step in the continued consolidation within the disk drive business. Seagate said it plans to lay off about half of Maxtors 12,000 employees during the rest of calendar 2006. Most of those cuts will occur in […]

Data storage giant EMC disclosed May 22 that it intends to focus a substantial amount of its resources on what it sees as a growing small and midsize business market in India. The business plan includes the launch of a dozen hardware and software products specifically for the SMB market, the opening of new sales […]

Intransa, which makes SAN software and hardware, said May 22 that it is teaming up with a San Jose, Calif., neighbor—storage software toolmaker Sonasoft—to provide a new backup-and-recovery network storage package for Microsoft Exchange, SQL and Windows Servers. Intransa will incorporate Sonasofts Sonasafe Point-Click Recovery suite of software tools—which offer one-click backup and recovery capability […]

Since most large and small businesses use spinning disks to store most of their data, the idea of employing linear magnetic tape machines for vital storage seems like a throwback to an age gone by. However, enterprise magnetic tape storage is far from obsolete; in fact, it might be about to enjoy a quantum leap […]

Unisys, not known for being active in the open-source community, hooked up with a key global open-source partner May 16 by announcing a worldwide distribution agreement with Sweden-based database maker MySQL AB. The new pact will enable Unisys, of Blue Bell, Pa., to resell MySQL premium software products and provide a wider array of consulting, […]

Sun Microsystems and SAS AG jointly trumpeted May 17 what they described as a “world record for data integration” into a business intelligence warehouse—the extraction, transformation and loading of 3.9 terabytes of sustained data throughput in 1 hour using two servers. The companies utilized a Sun Fire E25K server running 48 1.5GHz UltraSPARC IV+ dual-core […]

Sun Microsystems has been a prime supporter of open source in the enterprise in its own way for years, mainly through the OpenOffice, NetBeans and OpenSolaris communities. Yet due to restrictive and often-tangled licensing practices involving Java, Jini networking and other home-grown technologies, the company has never fully earned the respect-or trust-of the open-source community. […]

Sun Microsystems, which has released such technologies as its Solaris operating system and multicore UltraSPARC T1 processor to the open-source world, is continuing to court the community. At its JavaOne Conference in San Francisco the week of May 15, Sun will announce initiatives aimed at killing animosities over old Java licensing restrictions and will unveil […]

A new international standards organization that aims to enable a vast array of enterprise content management systems to interoperate began its first day of business May 16. The iECM (Interoperable Enterprise Content Management) Consortium, organized by a trade group, the AIIM (Association for Information and Image Management) of Silver Spring, Md., was born following a […]