Chris Preimesberger

Apple co-founder and two-time CEO Steve Jobs, recognized around the world as one of the most successful innovators in the history of American business, died Oct. 5 as the result of an eight-year battle with pancreatic cancer. He was 56. Ironically, Jobs passed away less than 24 hours after the announcement of yet another new […]

Oracle Unveils Exalytics This new in-memory appliance is Oracle’s latest whiz-bang IT machine. Exalytics comprises a Sun Fire X4470 M2 server, which is a four-socket, 3U-size box running Intel’s multicore (in this case, 10 CPUs) Westmere-EX Xeon E7 processor. As such, it features 40 processors. Each box can store an impressive 5TB to 10TB of […]

Red Hat, the world’s most financially successful Linux software and services company, made a bold move into the storage software business Oct. 4 with the acquisition of Gluster, whose open-source storage file system for unstructured data runs a growing number of new-generation IT companies. The transaction will cost Red Hat about $136 million in cash. […]

SAN DIEGO-Data analytics infrastructure provider Teradata, which released its first Aster Data-based database and a new MapReduce “big data” implementation two weeks ago, announced Oct. 3 that the fifth generation of its data warehousing appliance using both components will be available in a few months. The company made the announcement at its annual Partners Conference […]

The data storage industry has added yet another acronym to its already large set of lettered shortcuts: PAS. But it may well be an important one to learn. PAS stands for Protection and Availability Storage, as coined by 3-year-old storage startup Actifio. On Oct. 3 the company introduced PAS, which it contends is the industry’s […]

SAN FRANCISCO — Oracle OpenWorld 2011, like most mega-conferences of its type, is all about potential customers, analysts, integrators, partners and developers asking three main questions: a) What’s next; b) how much; and c) when?In Oracle’s case, the answers this year are: a) Exalytics; b) undisclosed at this time; and c) undisclosed at this time. […]

SAN FRANCISCO – Emerson Network Power, which is developing a new data center control package called Trellis, revealed Oct. 3 at Oracle OpenWorld 2011 that its base platform will be Oracle Fusion Middleware. Trellis, expected to become available early in 2012, is an open architecture-based data center infrastructure management (DCIM) package with real-time event-analysis capabilities […]

During its 43 years in business, Intel, the Santa Clara, Calif.-based processor maker, has built an international reputation based on making high-quality x86-type processors for uses that generally involve personal computers, enterprise servers, storage arrays and other familiar IT machines. Now, as the proliferation of various types of other connected devices explodes into all corners […]

Larry Ellison and his band of Oraclenians don’t do Oracle OpenWorld/JavaOne in a small way. This two-headed conference is so big, it is the only one held at Moscone Center in which an entire city block of Howard Street (between Third and Fourth) is closed off to all traffic. Last year, in a memorable OpenWorld […]

So this isn’t exactly a storage story, although technically it is because Hewlett-Packard sells StorageWorks arrays and other storage-related IT. But here at The Station we’re filing this little item anyway. The topic is now ex-CEO Leo Apotheker. (To be truthful, we’re thankful we won’t have to spell A-p-o-t-h-e-k-e-r as often anymore; it’s not intuitive […]

It isn’t necessarily news when Oracle and another company become embroiled in a war of words and egos, because it happens quite often. Oracle, never a shrinking violet, has been known to be proactive in corporate skirmishes with competitors from time to time. It is more newsy, perhaps, when the argument involves a company that […]

SAN FRANCISCO-At the tender age of 6, cloud storage and collaboration software provider Box (aka Box.net) is barely past the startup phase, yet it is already putting on world-class launch events similar to those staged by much larger and better-known companies. On Sept. 28, the Palo Alto, Calif.-based company, which already has 7 million consumer […]