Chris Preimesberger

Oracle on April 19 released its first new Java-related virtualization products since closing the acquisition of Sun Microsystems back on Jan. 27.The Redwood City, Calif.-based IT systems provider started shipping Oracle Virtual Assembly Builder and Oracle WebLogic Suite Virtualization Option. Both are expected to become mainstays of Oracle’s new Sun software catalog, which is undergoing […]

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.-Nervous CEOs were sighted pacing the hall April 16 as they awaited their opportunity to introduce fledgling companies at Under the Radar, an annual new-company showcase for analysts and venture capitalists held here at Microsoft’s Silicon Valley campus.This was a huge chance for them to impress a group of potential investors and reassure […]

President Barack Obama is redirecting the U.S. space program from return trips to the moon to locations far, far beyond.Obama said in an address April 15 at the Kennedy Space Center on Merritt Island, Fla., that he wants the United States to send astronauts into orbit around Mars by the mid-2030s, and that despite recent […]

Mezeo Software, a relative newcomer on the cloud computing scene, April 15 introduced a new version of its private-cloud storage platform for the enterprise.The Houston-based startup made the announcement at Storage Networking World in Orlando, Fla.Mezeo originally launched its cloud software in December 2008 specifically for the IT service provider market. The product now has […]

Toshiba’s Storage Device Division on April 15 launched a new 200GB, single-platter hard drive designed for navigation and entertainment deployments in the automotive market.Following a bit of research on other drives in this class, eWEEK confirmed Toshiba’s claim that the 2.5-inch, 4,200 rpm SATA (Serial ATA) MK2060GSC drive is the highest-capacity automotive-grade hard disk drive […]

High-performance computing specialist SGI, which is becoming a more competitive player in the enterprise data storage and virtualization sectors, April 13 introduced an integrated x86-class storage array for new-generation data centers.The reconstituted SGI, which in February bought the assets of bankrupt Copan Systems, represents the combination of Rackable and the original Silicon Graphics and continues […]

Results of a survey on virtualization practices released April 14 by the Independent Oracle Users Group didn’t unearth a lot of new information, but it did put the spotlight squarely on where the main problems lie when it comes to virtualizing an IT system.The survey of 381 enterprise data center decision makers supported already well-known […]

Xiotech on April 13 unveiled a network-attached storage package that combines its own “intelligent” arrays with Symantec’s FileStore server to provide a new NAS-type system powerful and capacious enough to handle cloud computing workloads.The company made the announcement at the Symantec Vision 2010 conference in Las Vegas, which continues through April 15.Xiotech’s Intelligent Storage Element […]

Everybody knows that the Achilles’ heel of electronic devices is keeping them charged up-especially when one is traveling.When you’re on the road, it’s often hit-or-miss as to whether you will be able to find a power outlet that works-and a window of time to use it-in order to charge up a cell phone, PDA, iPod, […]

SANTA CLARA, Calif.-Schooner Information Technology, a new provider of solid-state data access appliances for Web 2.0 enterprises, cloud computing and enterprise data centers, on April 13 started shipping upgraded versions of its products for MySQL and NoSQL.One year to the day after emerging from stealth mode, the two-year-old startup made the announcement at the MySQL […]

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There is an amazingly random thread of things going on here at Storage Station. For example, did you know that even martial arts fighters need to have storage systems for their business purposes? It’s true. Muhammed “King Mo” Lawal, the high-flying mixed martial arts fighter preparing for the Strikeforce World Light Heavyweight title bout this […]