Chris Preimesberger

There’s no question that IBM is sending a message to both Oracle and EMC with its $1.7 billion acquisition of data warehousing appliance maker Netezza announced Sept. 20. If they actually had to write it down, that message would go something like this: “OK, EMC, you’ve got Greenplum. Oracle, you’ve got all that existing in-house […]

SAN FRANCISCO-Well, that didn’t take long. In an era in which legal cases are often drawn out far longer than they should be, Hewlett-Packard and Oracle spent only 13 days in a legal tussle over the move of former HP CEO Mark Hurd to Oracle to serve as its co-president. On Sept. 20, HP dropped […]

SAN FRANCISCO-Solid-state storage drive maker STEC on Sept. 20 introduced a new industrial-strength SSD aimed at enterprises deploying fast and/or continuous read/write workloads that include metadata logging, journaling and database indexing applications.The announcement was made at Oracle OpenWorld here at the Moscone Center.STEC’s ZeusRAM, which is currently being tested by several high-performance OEMs, will be […]

SAN FRANCISCO–For the first time, Oracle OpenWorld is about much more than faster databases, middleware, enterprise apps, Linux and the America’s Cup. Those items alone certainly are worthy of a huge conference like this one, staged again at cavernous Moscone Center. But now, with the addition of Sun Microsystems in the Oracle fold, there’s quite […]

SUNNYVALE, Calif.-Yahoo, whose user base has been either flat or slowly slipping, depending upon whose research you believe, announced some upgrades in its Web products Sept. 16 that it hopes will help regain some luster. The venerable Web services provider, still one of the most relied-upon Websites in the world, didn’t show analysts and media […]

Data compliance and e-discovery software maker Clearwell Systems announced Sept. 16 the addition of an Identification and Collection Module in Version 6.0 of its Clearwell E-Discovery Platform. Clearwell, which has been supplying the e-discovery tool set for Cisco Systems since 2007, said the module enables IT teams to easily identify and collect electronically stored information […]

At the recent VMworld 2010 conference in San Francisco, Isilon told the media that it has integrated the popular iSCSI block-level protocol into its file-based OneFS storage operating system, amounting to a unified scale-out storage platform for the enterprise. In short, Isilon now enables users to consolidate both file- and block-based applications into one shared […]

Oracle may have had some digestive troubles swallowing huge Sun Microsystems earlier in 2010, but Sun’s financial woes certainly aren’t showing in its new owner’s quarterly reports. Sun was losing more than $100 million per month in 2009 before the January acquisition. No matter. To the surprise of many market observers, Oracle easily exceeded Wall […]

EMC and Oracle are two big IT dots that one does not automatically connect very often. After all, Oracle is trying to become the newest full-service systems provider and doesn’t need EMC to provide storage hardware, for one thing. However, a lot of IT shops use both EMC and Oracle products, so somebody thought there […]

Object-Oriented Storage: 14 Things You May Not Know by Chris Preimesberger Aligns Storage Costs with the Value of Data Object storage systems remove the complexity and management costs associated with keeping an enterprise storage system in production-ready status. Object storage is based on a single, flat address space that enables the automatic routing of data […]

Seagate Technology told The Station last week — then announced Sept. 14 — that after three years of development, its Momentus self-encrypting hard disk drive for laptops has been granted the FIPS (Federal Information Processing Standard) 140-2 certification from the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology. This is the first such drive to earn […]

SAN FRANCISCO-Paris-based storage provider LaCie on Sept. 14 launched what it claims is the first RAID system to incorporate USB 3.0 connectivity.The company said the twin-disk LaCie 2big and the single-disk LaCie d2-which work with both Macs and PCs-feature high-speed USB 3.0 ports.LaCie made the announcement at the Intel Developer Forum here at Moscone Center […]