Chris Preimesberger

Data center managers and CTOs already know that system downtime can be very expensive for an enterprise, but it’s possible they may not know the real extent of that expense when servers, networking and storage suffer a major outage. New industry research from Emerson Network Power released this week at the Uptime Institute Symposium in […]

Before long, we’ll be able to get any type of IT service through a cloud-based connection. In fact, we’re virtually at that point now-and modern-era cloud services are still only toddlers at 5 years old or less. Data integration and management software maker Queplix, a relatively new name in the cloud scene, is a good […]

Data storage provider Tandberg Data revealed May 12 that it is in the process of acquiring ProStor Systems’ RDX removable disk storage business to augment its own RDX division. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Tandberg said that it would retain most of the ProStor engineering staff to go with the company’s intellectual property. […]

Perhaps it was coincidence and perhaps not, but IBM just happened to come out this week with a major new Big Data storage product launch at exactly the same time as competing storage giant EMC is holding its big annual conference in Las Vegas, which is titled “Cloud Meets Big Data.”Big Blue on May 9 […]

Data protection and software management provider Symantec on May 11 reported a 9 percent decline in its profits for its fourth-quarter 2011 earnings, but the company still bettered Wall Street analysts’ projections.The Mountain View, Calif.-based company that makes the popular Norton Security Suite cleared $168 million (22 cents per share) for the three-month period ending […]

LAS VEGAS — It’s uncanny how competing companies seem to know all about each other’s product launches, despite the cloaks of supposed secrecy under which they try to hide. Not all the time, but now and then The Station will get notice of a new product release from a competitor before the issuing company or […]

CA Technologies and Microsoft, which have been partners on various products for two decades, revealed May 10 they have signed an agreement to partner on a new cloud platform. Starting in the second half of 2011, CA’s ARCserve SAAS (software-as-a-service) data protection offering will use Microsoft’s Windows Azure cloud platform as its home base. The […]

LAS VEGAS — Box, formerly called Box.net, is moving up the partnership food chain.On May 9, the Palo Alto, Calif.-based cloud storage and collaboration company announced at EMC World 2011 here a new agreement that gives its users access to EMC’s Documentum enterprise repository directly from the cloud.Box, which focused on the consumer market during […]

LAS VEGAS – EMC is literally going the distance with its Virtual Storage initiative. The world’s largest storage and data-security company on May 10 at EMC World 2011 introduced VPlex Geo, an improvement upon a year-old product that enables terabytes of data inside non-EMC and non-connected storage systems in geographically dispersed data centers to be […]

LAS VEGAS-Even though it appears to be only a matter of time before world storage market leader EMC officially enters the server market, Joe Tucci will admit to nothing of the sort at this point. “No, we’re not,” EMC’s triple-threat president, CEO and chairman of the board told eWEEK May 9 when asked that question […]

LAS VEGAS-It would be laughable, really, to have a conference headlined “Cloud Meets Big Data” and not talk about the Apache Software Foundation’s Hadoop analytics engine at some point. So EMC wasted no time May 9 on Day One at EMC World 2011 here at the Venetian Hotel bringing Hadoop, the once-tiny open-source project that […]

Iomega, which EMC bought in 2008 to provide a top-line consumer brand to go with its enterprise business, is beginning to work its way back upstream into the business market with the help of its parent company.Iomega on May 4 launched a new line of StorCenter network storage products — two for desktop deployments and […]