Chris Preimesberger

There’s a new converged enterprise storage system available in the market as of Sept. 27, and both Hewlett-Packard and Hitachi Data Systems are claiming that it’s theirs. There’s no controversy here: They’re both right.HP and Hitachi both announced a new converged-type storage platform for midrange and larger enterprises.Hitachi actually builds the hardware and labels a […]

Hewlett-Packard reported Sept. 27 that it has closed the $2.35 billion acquisition deal announced Sept. 2-on Labor Day weekend-for utility storage vendor 3PAR.HP and Dell had competed in a furious 10-day bidding war that started Sept. 23, when HP tendered an unsolicited bid of $1.6 billion-one week after Dell had announced it was going to […]

What Xerox PARC Will Do with Its Next 40 Years by Chris Preimesberger Legendary Research Location PARC, located in the Palo Alto, Calif., foothills, is literally a place where dreams come true, although sometimes it can take years of development before they become commercially successful products. The institution currently holds about 2,500 patents and not […]

That was way cool news about online game creator Zynga leasing 270,000 square feet of office space in downtown San Francisco, four blocks from CalTrain and five blocks from AT&T Park, where the Giants call home. The company also plans to hire up to 2,000 more employees to go with its current 1,200. That’s a […]

We’ve written about Nasuni several times here at The Station and on eWEEK, and that’s because it’s both newsy and innovative. We named it as one of 17 promising new-generation storage companies a few months ago, and it’s fulfilling that promise. Nasuni Filer is a virtual NAS file server/front end that runs on VMware and […]

Back in February, startup Virsto introduced both itself and a new brand of storage virtualization software, a product the company promised would allow better control of random data flow threads inside virtualized systems. After all, storage administrators were finding out all too often that hypervisors were not only providing virtualization advantages, but also causing irritating […]

Xerox PARC Research Center Looks Back on 40 Years of Invention by Chris Preimesberger Simple Logo, Complex Work PARC holds about 2,500 patents. Since 2002 it has been averaging about 150 patents filed per year with 1,300 patents granted. Commercial clients include DNP (Dai Nippon Printing), Fujitsu, Motorola, NEC Display Solutions, Microsoft Powerset, Samsung, SolFocus, […]

Online storage and document file sharing service Dropbox Sept. 22 made available a new set of mobile applications, including updates for the company’s Apple iPhone and iPad and Google Android apps, and the first release of the new Dropbox for BlackBerry.Dropbox is a free and premium application that automatically makes available files on one computer-a […]

High-performance computer maker SGI on Sept. 22 introduced its newest storage system, SGI InfiniteStorage 16000, intended for high-octane environments that deal with mixed workloads. Most often, HPC (high-performance computing) systems that handle computation for projects such as genome rendering, oil and gas geologic exploration, and weather prediction use dedicated servers and storage because the projects […]

Sir Paul McCartney has been one of the world’s most-renowned entertainment content creators for two generations. Like most of us, his personal collection has been stored on old-school media that’s considered at risk. Not anymore. McCartney has decided to digitize everything he has and is moving it to the cloud. Starting immediately, all of the […]

NetApp and analytic database maker ParAccel have gone into business together. On Sept. 20, the two companies jointly announced that ParAccel’s analytics engine has been integrated to run natively inside NetApp’s unified storage architecture. What does this mean for NetApp customers? For one thing, it gives them a new measure of storage control and visibility, […]

Seagate Technology, which introduced the first multiplatter, 3TB portable storage device only three months ago, on Sept. 21 added another item to its list of breakthroughs by launching the first 1.5TB 2.5-inch portable external drive.With that kind of storage capacity in its newest FreeAgent GoFlex, Seagate figures users can store up to 60 high-definition movies, […]