Chris Preimesberger

This doesn’t happen very often in the bustling storage hardware and storage-related software businesses, but The Station received tips April 23 from several reliable industry sources that storage software maker Gear6 is in the process of shutting down its operations. Gear6, based in Mountain View, Calif., is a 4-year-old maker of Memcached-enhanced software that helps […]

How HP Envisions Making Printing Available Anywhere You Happen to Be by Chris Preimesberger HP Starts Whole New Printing Initiative Paper docs aren’t going away, probably ever. HP’s is already the world’s largest and most successful client-based printer manufacturer, but now the company is expanding its horizons to include the cloud. Using its own data […]

IBM, which hasn’t made a lot of storage news in the last 12 months, April 21 announced the availability of several new tiered storage products.Nothing here is revolutionary, but the additions are indeed improvements to its previous portfolio that catch the company up to features that smaller companies already have made available.Lately, IBM has been […]

Like “Ol’ Man River” in the old Jerome Kern-Oscar Hammerstein II song, EMC just keeps rolling along — making lots of money, that is. The world’s largest independent data storage company April 21 reported its best first quarter in company history with earnings of $3.9 billion, an increase of 23 percent over Q1 2009 as […]

SAN FRANCISCO-Hewlett-Packard, Research In Motion (maker of BlackBerry connected devices), FedEx Office and Hilton Worldwide joined forces April 21 to kick-start a new cloud-based service for mobile printing, long a nagging problem for many traveling businesspeople.As a result of this new initiative, BlackBerry users now can search for the closest connected printer wherever it may […]

Hitachi Data Systems has jumped aboard the unified computing system bandwagon currently occupied by Hewlett-Packard, Dell/Brocade and Cisco Systems’ UCS partnership with EMC and VMware.The Santa Clara, Calif.-based subsidiary of Japan’s Hitachi announced April 19 that it is launching its own open-standards-based, unified computing platform aimed at cloud computing deployments for ISPs and enterprises.Partners in […]

Seagate cloud storage subsidiary i365 came out April 19 with a new version of its EVault storage appliance optimized for Microsoft’s data protection suite, System Center Data Protection Manager 2010.The collaborative project is indicative of Microsoft’s determination to move deeper into the cloud storage and services sector and of i365 starting to climb to higher […]

VMware, maker of a hypervisor and virtualized desktops that have been selling particularly well in some far-flung worldwide markets, reported a bang-up first quarter in its April 20 earnings call.International and U.S. domestic revenues for VMware were dead even, with each bringing in $317 million for a total of $634 million. The company’s international income […]

While Toyota, the world’s largest auto manufacturer, keeps having to put out fires involving manufacturing issues, Ford-which recently replaced General Motors as the No. 1 seller of American cars-is plunging ahead by putting more and more IT features into its product line.Ford revealed April 20 that its 2011 Fiesta model will become the first vehicle […]

VMware, which makes a hypervisor that is present in most of the world’s largest IT systems and which will reveal its quarterly numbers April 20, is certainly a leading figure in the virtualization software business. However, other market indicators are coming to the fore, and most of them are pointing to one very clear trend: […]

Several companies-including Intel/Micron and Toshiba-have been talking about it, but Samsung Electronics April 19 was the first to announce that it is now producing 20-nanometer-class NAND flash chips for use in memory cards made for handheld devices and embedded deployments.Samsung, however, would not reveal to eWEEK the actual size of the node that it is […]