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Gemini Mobile Unveils NoSQL-based Storage Platform
By Chris Preimesberger | Posted: 2011-09-26
In the late 1980s, there came Sybase SQL Server, a powerful relational database server that Microsoft bought and set out to compete with Oracle, Siebel, SAP and others. Later,
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Xignite: Pronounce It Hot on the Cloud Service Fast Track
By Chris Preimesberger | Posted: 2011-09-15
Once you learn how to say the name of the company, which phonetically is pronounced "Ex-ignite," Xignite really is not that hard to identify.
The 30-person financial market
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Now the Analysis Really Begins on HP's Bombshell News
By Chris Preimesberger | Posted: 2011-08-19
Because Hewlett-Packard Co. is one of those IT companies that is everywhere, everybody seems to have an opinion on decisions that have been made recently on Hanover Street in
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HP to Announce $10B Acquisition of Autonomy Today
By Chris Preimesberger | Posted: 2011-08-18
When Hewlett-Packard's board of directors selected former SAP CEO Leo Apotheker as its new leader to replace Mark Hurd in September 2010, they purposely picked a software guy to
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LiquidPlanner Puts Project Management into Social Network
By Chris Preimesberger | Posted: 2011-08-12
Project management software not only helps guides daily enterprise business from Point A to Point Z, but it also deals with the storage and accessibility of content.
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VTL, Mainfame Backup Back in Storage News at EMC
By Chris Preimesberger | Posted: 2011-08-11
Here's a topic you don't see every day in the IT trade press--or in any press, come to think of it: Virtual tape backup for mainframes.
Oh yes. This is still big business with
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Nimbus Scores Major-League Win in 100TB eBay Deployment
By Chris Preimesberger | Posted: 2011-08-03
Use cases, which illustrate real life in IT better than almost anything else, are sometimes underrated as relevant data points. Most often they do not have a hard news angle,
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Seagate Gives Android Devices 500GB of Wireless Storage
By Chris Preimesberger | Posted: 2011-08-01
Back from vacation and we're seeing plenty of news in storage, despite the usual mid-summer business lull.
For example, Seagate chose Aug. 1 to open new accessibility for
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Teradata Apparently Getting Under Oracle's Thick Skin
By Chris Preimesberger | Posted: 2011-07-21
Ever heard of Oracle getting aggressive against competitors by publishing surprising claims in major international newspaper ads? Nah, can't be possible. (Right.)
Well, it's
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Gluster Seeking Beta Testers for Storage File System v3.3
By Chris Preimesberger | Posted: 2011-07-20
Gluster, one of the more creatively named IT companies here in the Valley of Silicon, issued a beta release of open-source GlusterFS 3.3 on July 20.
This newest version of
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Is Cloud Storage Over-the-Top Too Expensive?
By Chris Preimesberger | Posted: 2011-07-18
Is cloud storage, which appears to be a bargain off the top, overly expensive when compared to buying your own drive and keeping everything on your desk? It certainly looks that way.
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LexisNexis Risk Solutions Unveils Alternative to Hadoop
By Chris Preimesberger | Posted: 2011-07-15
Valuable "big data" open-source software from an unexpected place is our topic for today.
LexisNexis Risk Solutions, which has been using its home-developed, large-scale
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Nimble Storage Lands $25M Series D, and for Good Reason
By Chris Preimesberger | Posted: 2011-07-14
Interesting bit of storage industry investment news on July 14, Bastille Day. Not that there's any connection with the French holiday, but year-old Nimble Storage revealed that
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Nerds on Site Use iPads to Admin KineticD Cloud Storage
By Chris Preimesberger | Posted: 2011-06-20
We at The Station enjoy discovering good and creative company names. It's perfectly OK, of course, to have your company named for what it does; International Business
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Sir Paul to Rock 'n' Roll for HP Discover Conference
By Chris Preimesberger | Posted: 2011-06-02
Sir Paul McCartney, who's way past 64 (hard to believe he'll be 69 on June 18), is really getting into IT lately.
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