Chris Preimesberger

Network-attached storage maker Isilon, which made its niche supplying large-scale, linear-oriented, clustered systems — mostly for huge workloads created by media companies and scientific labs — has upgraded its operating system and added two new data management software applications to its product line. The new apps are SmartPools and InsightIQ, which fit snugly into Isilon’s […]

Promise Technology, which has been operating under the radar-but is well known within the industry-as the OEM storage for Apple’s Xserve systems, on July 6 launched a line of branded storage appliances for small and midsize enterprise customers.The company’s main enterprise product, VTrak, has been expanded to include the new VTrak S3000, which features a […]

Inside Intel’s Hottest Advanced Computing Projects by Chris Preimesberger The Wired Brain: The Ultimate Interface to Computers In a collaborative project with Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Pittsburgh, Intel is developing a system that reads human neural activity—brain waves—and attempts to use that input to perform tasks. For example, simply thinking an e-mail […]

Here at The Station, we don’t get as many opportunities as we would like to highlight interesting use cases, so let’s enjoy one while we can. One doesn’t often think of a tennis tournament — even an international Grand Slam tourney — as necessarily needing a data storage system, but the All England Lawn Tennis […]

EMC, in a corporate move apparently unrelated to the same-day acquisition of cloud storage analytics provider Greenplum, told eWEEK July 7 that it is recommissioning its Atmos Online storage service.Atmos Online, which had a soft launch about 14 months ago at EMC World 2009, is an EMC enterprise cloud storage service that as of July […]

IBM announced July 7 that it is entering into a collaborative agreement with the European Union and several academic institutions to launch a research consortium on cloud computing.The work group’s mission is to help businesses understand the nature, structure and business purposes of cloud systems and to enable them to use “e-services”-aka cloud-based services-to smooth […]

Storage giant EMC revealed July 6 that it is acquiring privately held Greenplum, which provides next-generation database warehousing software and self-service, cloud-based analytics for enterprises.Terms of the all-cash transaction were not disclosed, but EMC did say it expects the deal to close in September.Greenplum, the main market of which is enterprises with large amounts of […]

Once again, as we do at six- or 12-month intervals here at eWEEK, we offer a snapshot of important continuing trends in data storage. These are based upon daily conversations with storage vendors, analysts, data center managers, CIOs and CTOs. New products involving storage pooling, data tiering, disaster recovery, deduplication, thin-provisioning, capacity management and a […]

Dell is adding an important ingredient to its data center management software recipe. The company announced July 1 that it is acquiring automation software vendor Scalent Systems, which provides shortcuts intended to make data center infrastructure easier and more efficient to operate.Dell will integrate Scalent’s V/OE (Virtual Operating Environment) into its AIM (Advanced Infrastructure Manager) […]

It had to happen sooner or later, and in this case it happened sooner than the industry expected. Hard drive and storage device maker Seagate Technology announced June 29 that has made available the industry’s first 3TB desktop storage device, a new version of its popular FreeAgent GoFlex. Only a few weeks ago, Seagate was […]

As Cisco Systems reinvents itself partly as a cloud-computing infrastructure provider, it needs to add a set of services to wrap around all the hardware and software it wants to sell.On June 30, that’s what the company did, launching a set of what it calls Cloud Enablement Services to go with its growing Data Center […]

A day after introducing a major rebuild of its data center networking equipment and its Intel-based servers, Oracle — seemingly as an afterthought — on June 29 announced upgrades to its Sun Storage 7000 product line.Oracle became the first all-purpose data center systems maker to include built-in, at-the-gateway data deduplication and DTrace storage analytics in […]