Chris Preimesberger

November: Thailand Floods Significantly Impact HDD Industry Record rainstorms and flooding in Thailand—a region that assembles about 70 percent of the world’s HDDs—caused a flooding disaster that hit the world IT supply chain harder than the March 2011 Japanese tsunami. As a result, there are now massive shortages of hard disks in the first quarter […]

Even though Oracle launched its 12-petabyte data-storage Exadata server in 2008 and its cloud database/analytics Exalogic server to equally high visibility two years later, it still believes it needs a product that is actually named “big data” so there’s no mistaking its purpose.So on Jan. 10 it launched a new data center machine called the […]

You Only Need Real or Synthetic User Monitoring Depending on the situation, several end-user monitoring technologies are required to communicate the relevant information to the right people at the right time with critical information that contributes significantly to the overall success of the business. Using all three categories of end-user monitoring technologies—synthetic monitors, real user […]

High-performance solid-state storage device maker OCZ Technology added a key ingredient to its software lineup Jan. 9 in announcing the acquisition of privately held flash caching and virtualization software/hardware provider SANRAD. Terms of the deal were not revealed by OCZ. Mountain View, Calif.-based SANRAD, founded in 2000, has its research and development center in Tel […]

Storage used to be considered a snoozer of an IT beat. You get data, you store data, and sometimes you back it up. Couldn’t be simpler.Right. Well, the storage beat is a bit more than that. Storage is the home base for all our data, in whatever form. The advancements in various types of media, […]

Ford Motor Co., whose vehicles have become rolling computers thanks to partnerships with Microsoft, Google, Bluetooth and others, announced Jan. 6 that it plans to open a research lab near Stanford University to get closer to IT innovators. The Dearborn, Mich.-based automaker said that the Palo Alto, Calif., facility will be its “first-ever dedicated R&D […]

Infoblox, a maker of Domain Name System servers and data center optimization software, announced Jan. 6 that it has filed a registration statement with the Securities and Exchange Commission for a proposed initial public offering of its common stock. The company requested to sell the maximum amount ($125 million) of stock. The number of shares […]

Storage used to be considered a snoozer of an IT beat. You get data, you store data, and sometimes you back it up. Couldn’t be simpler.Right. Well, the storage beat is a bit more than that. Storage is the home base for all our data, in whatever form. The advancements in various types of media, […]

Evolving Data Centers Yield Massive Data Growth New-generation data centers are undergoing a rapid shift to cloud-enabled services, mobile computing and 24/7 operations, which is leading to new methods of creating information that help enterprises grow. The side effects, naturally, are massive data growth and a new set of management challenges as organizations struggle to […]

The Station got a surprising number of communications (emails, social networking IMs, etc.) about yesterday’s story on the NeatDesk and Neat Receipt, so we might as well keep the personal storage ball rolling with another late gift suggestion. This time it’s a slightly different kind of storage — voice storage. After all, digital voice is […]

Existing Storage Continues to Be Used For most companies, the notion of moving all their data to the cloud is not feasible. However, continuously expanding data storage is fueling a need for more capacity. What better way to address this need than with cloud storage? The benefits are access to a secure, limitless pool of […]

There are still three days before Christmas, counting what’s left of today. As we all know, some of the most intense gift-buying happens in the last few days before the holiday. What would we all do without deadlines? You don’t have to answer that. Anyway, The Station brings this up because it has tested a […]