Chris Preimesberger

With little fanfare, Hewlett-Packard used the first day of summer in the Northern Hemisphere on June 21 to roll out some fresh additions to its small- and medium-size business data center catalog.The new products include servers, storage arrays, a networking switch and software upgrades. None of these products is particularly ground-breaking in their IT, but […]

The terms “Oracle Corp.” and “Web experience” aren’t often used in the same sentence, but that’s all changing now. The huge database and IT infrastructure provider June 21 revealed that it is buying Mineola, N.Y.-based FatWire Software, which describes itself as a provider of “Web experience management solutions.” Terms of the transaction were not disclosed […]

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 Machines, for example, certainly tells it like it is, and there’s no mistaking what that famous company does. (Then again, it technically doesn’t “make” business machines any more, […]

NAND flash storage maker SanDisk (NasdaqGS: SNDK), putting into quick action its May 16 acquisition of Pliant Technology, on June 20 added six new 2.5-inch solid-state drives to its enterprise-level catalog. SanDisk, internationally known for its little blue NAND flash memory cards used in digital cameras and phones and for thumb drive-type storage devices, had […]

Imagine a company spending millions of dollars to buy workstations, software, servers, networking and storage equipment for everyone working on one large project. Then imagine recycling those systems and buying everything new for the next project. This may seem like IT overkill, but it’s a way of life at Glendale, Calif.-based DreamWorks Animation, creator of […]

As mind-boggling as it seems, it’s only a matter of several years before enterprises will be dealing with exabyte-level data stores. That’s correct: storage of billions of billions of bytes in on-site disks and in the cloud. High-definition video and data cargo from scientific research projects, health care imaging, and oil and gas exploration data […]

Pronounced Just As It Appears SPDY (derived from the word “speedy” rather than an acronym) is a TCP-based application-level protocol for transporting Web content. It is proposed by Google and is being developed as one of their Chromium open-source projects. A white paper on SPDY states that it is intended to augment, rather than replace, […]

ProBook 4436s The s-series notebooks are built of highly anodized aluminum and feature HP’s DuraFinish for a smudge- and dirt-resistant shell. They are available with 14.0-inch or 15.6-inch displays. ProBook 4535s (side view) The s-series notebooks come with Windows 7, SUSE Linux or Free DOS operating systems and are very thin and easy to carry. […]

Hewlett-Packard and Toshiba, longtime enemies in the global portable PC marketplace, are reaching over that chasm to collaborate in a different sector: IT infrastructure and cloud computing services. The two companies said June 16 they have created a new partnership to provide hardware, software and services to public networks that provide power, water and gas […]

Network storage provider NetApp on June 14 upgraded its OnCommand storage management software, which now includes the capability to automate and analyze shared storage infrastructures. NetApp, like its archrival EMC, comes at cloud management from what it considers the center of the data center universe: storage. Conversely, Cisco Systems comes at cloud-type systems from a […]

Hitachi Data Systems jumped into the increasingly crowded “converged” data center systems pool June 14 with the launch of several items that include two new blade servers, an appliance for Microsoft Exchange 2010, and new automated cloud system hardware/software packages.Converged data center system components — often simply another term for “pre-configured”components — feature more functionality […]

Backup/recovery and archive specialist Quantum added specialized software for protecting data in virtual machines in its DXi and StorNext product lines when it acquired Pancetera Software on June 14. The $12 million transaction comprised $8.4 million in cash and $3.6 million in Quantum common stock (approximately 1.2 million shares), Quantum said. Keeping control of and […]