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From the Beginning, It Was Never Going to Work
By Chris Preimesberger | Posted: 2008-05-05
Of course it's easy to say it now, and The Station will accept any email guff on this topic in retrospect: There was no way in heck that Microsoft was ever going to corral Yahoo --
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Rackspace to Launch New Cloud Storage Service
By Chris Preimesberger | Posted: 2008-05-02
Internet hosting provider Rackspace, of San Antonio, Texas, on May 5 launched its own Web-based storage service -- dubbed CloudFS -- to beta users through its "cloud" computing
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Moonwalk, Caringo Hook Up for Alternative Single-Tier Storage
By Chris Preimesberger | Posted: 2008-05-02
A couple of hot "disruptive" data storage companies -- whose technologies are revolutionary yet complementary -- have joined forces and will commingle their wares.
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Free eSeminar on 'How to Add De-Dupe to Your iSCSI Array'
By Chris Preimesberger | Posted: 2008-04-29
ExaGrid, a company sometimes overlooked due to the larger storage players but which has its own powerful deduplication secret sauce, is offering a free eSeminar tomorrow,
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Lots of Discussion on Handling Fried Hard Drives
By Chris Preimesberger | Posted: 2008-04-29
It used to be that journalists like The Station did our research, talked to a few sources, then wrote and filed our stories -- and that pretty much was the end of our relationship
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VMware Claims Citrix Isn't Telling Whole XenDesktop Story
By Chris Preimesberger | Posted: 2008-04-25
VMware took issue with a story The Station filed earlier this eWEEK, claiming that Citrix isn't telling the whole truth about its new XenDesktop.
In other words, VMware
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Storage Earnings Going Nowhere but Up, Up and Away
By Chris Preimesberger | Posted: 2008-04-25
The Station never fails to be amazed at the amount of money being made throughout this sector.
EMC on Wednesday, April 23, turned in a report card showing a cool $3 billion in
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Your Take Is Wanted on Dedupe Acquisitions
By Chris Preimesberger | Posted: 2008-04-24
EMC swallows Avamar in November 2006. IBM acquires Diligent a few weeks ago.
More of this is bound to happen, believe me. Deduplication, virtualization layers and e-discovery/compliance
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New USB Flash Drive Self-Destructs If Tampered With
By Chris Preimesberger | Posted: 2008-04-24
When The Station hears the word "Kingston," the first thought that comes to mind is the Kingston Trio, who owned the folk music world for a few years in the late 1950s and early
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Hard Drive Sales Up Despite Cooling Economy
By Chris Preimesberger | Posted: 2008-04-23
How hot was the hard disk drive (HDD) market in 2007? Pretty darn sizzling, despite the cooling U.S. economy, according to Southern California-based industry analyst iSuppli.
2007 was
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Teradata's New DW Appliance Begets Wrath from Netezza
By Chris Preimesberger | Posted: 2008-04-22
Data warehousing -- remember when that was a hot buzzphrase about seven years ago? -- remains a growing sector of IT data storage, and the generally acknowledged market leader
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De-dupe Vendors: See 'Drunken Data' Online Quiz
By Chris Preimesberger | Posted: 2008-04-21
Jon Toigo, CEO of Toigo Partners, writes a cliche-busting, skeptical, yet thoughtful storage blog. It's colorfully named DrunkenData.com.
Toigo, who eschews the term "analyst," is a
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Why Firefox 3.0 Beta Looks Like a Major Improvement
By Chris Preimesberger | Posted: 2008-04-21
It took about four years of research and development, but it looks like the Mozilla developers have finally plugged most of the memory leaks that were irritating some users of the
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Samplify's Data Compression a Blessing for Storage
By Chris Preimesberger | Posted: 2008-04-11
Samplify Systems, a real-time sampled data compression startup in Santa Clara, Calif., that solves I/O bottlenecks, has an interesting, second-generation take on data movement and
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Big Blue to Unveil New Digital Video Storage Software
By Chris Preimesberger | Posted: 2008-04-10
The digital video storage business is hopping. Companies like Isilon, BlueArc, NetApp (thanks to its 2003 Spinnaker acquisition) and several others are generally doing quite
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