Chris Preimesberger

Hitachi, which partners with South Korea’s LG Data Storage to make storage devices, on Oct. 4 introduced what it called the world’s first hybrid NAND flash optical disk drive with its own on-board storage.Boise, Idaho-based Micron Technology supplies its new 25-nanometer NAND as the flash memory for the new optical disk drive, oddly enough acronymed […]

Okay, well, about that last Station post from earlier today … Never mind. Read this and you’ll see why: HP Selects Former SAP Chief as Its New President, CEO. Have a great rest of the day! We’re sure a lot of folks at Hewlett-Packard are breathing easier now that they have a new corporate leader. […]

And so, almost two months in, the Hewlett-Packard“Search for a CEO” show meanders on. The venerable legacy company of David Packard and William Hewlettdid its annual all-day meeting with securities analysts on Sept. 28 but barely mentioned the fact that there is no real CEO at the controls. Um, that’s a rather large rhino in […]

Hewlett-Packard elected to go the road less traveled to find its new chief executive officer.After a nearly two-month search, the world’s largest IT company on Sept. 30 named former SAP chief executive Leo Apotheker, 57, as its new president and CEO, replacing Mark Hurd.It was a move few industry people saw coming. In choosing Apotheker, […]

Storage OEM-er FalconStor Software, which provides storage software to EMC, Oracle, Nexsan, SGI, Acer and Data Direct, among other companies, revealed in a very unclear press statement Sept. 29 that its CEO, ReiJane Huai, has resigned. That he resigned is the only clear part. The company then said that Huai made this decision “following his […]

Hewlett-Packard’s top printing and imaging executive told analysts Sept. 28 that the IT giant’s franchise in that sector expects to report flat to 2 percent growth in 2010 and that he believes his division will improve to between 3 percent and 4 percent growth in 2011.HP’s Imaging and Printing Group (IPG) is a $29 billion […]

Data center software and systems maker Oracle, which has seen its own share of litigation over the past several years–especially involving the acquisition of Sun Microsystems–is seeking legal restitution against solid-state memory maker Micron for alleged price fixing. Oracle, which now owns the Sun server, storage and workstation franchises, filed legal action Sept. 24 in […]

It’s been seven and a half weeks since Aug. 6, when Hewlett-Packard announced that CEO Mark Hurd was vacating the job he’d held since March 2005. Since then, under interim CEO Cathie Lesjak, the company has forged right ahead as if nothing has changed — including deciding to spend a non-trival $2.35 billion to buy […]

Hewlett-Packard executives dropped nary a hint Sept. 28 at its annual securities analyst meeting in Palo Alto, Calif., about the progress of its search committee in finding a new chief executive officer to replace Mark Hurd, who was forced to resign under a cloud Aug. 6.The search committee has been working for seven and a […]

Wouldn’t it be great to be able to obtain a print copy of a document, on demand, from wherever you may be located-and quickly?This is now possible. Now that bandwidths can handle the traffic, the management software is ready to go and network printers are becoming more available, the market for cloud-based document printing services […]

Storing Business Data on Personal Devices: Eight Things Enterprises Must Know by Chris Preimesberger There Is No Perimeter Anymore With the convergence of personal and business devices, there is no “inside” or “outside” any longer. Web-facing applications provide direct access to ERP systems, and these vulnerabilities expose internal systems to cyber-criminals. A recent example is […]

Kaviza, the fast-up-and-coming virtual desktop software startup, now has added support for iPads, iPhones and Android smartphones.Users of those devices now can access virtualized Windows desktops using Version 3.1 of Kaviza’s VDI-in-a-Box product and Citrix Receiver, CEO Kumar Goswani told eWEEK on Sept. 23.What this means is that users can access an enterprise VDI system […]