Chris Preimesberger

Hewlett-Packard and QLogic announced Feb. 18 that HP will add stackable QLogic 8G-bps Fibre Channel SAN switches to sell into its storage catalog for midsize and small businesses.The new switches contain 20 Fibre Channel ports apiece. The switches can be acquired individually as needed and stacked in groups of six per cluster to scale out […]

Cisco Systems and Hewlett-Packard made it official Feb. 18: They are getting a divorce, thanks to irreconcilable differences in IT direction.The final decree will come April 30, when both the channel partner and system integrator agreements between the two IT giants end.It boils down to the fact that HP is focused on servers, while Cisco […]

Believe it: Some of the most significant storage stories of the coming year will involve NAND flash. So much new data is being stuffed into those little solid-state drives on iPhones, Blackberries, cell phones, and other devices that the media is becoming more strategic for companies and individuals virtually every day. It holds a lot […]

Well, this might be a sign of better times ahead, we all hope. NetApp, the market’s second-largest independent storage-only company, reported in its quarterly earnings conference call Feb. 17 that it has washed the awful 2009 out of its system and is back in the sunlight of black ink. [Just having a little fun with […]

There’s all kinds of research being done on cloud computing: Who’s looking at it, who’s using it, who’s skeptical, who thinks it’s just a fad, etc. Then there is analysis by influential individuals, such as Oracle CEO/founder Larry Ellison [whose BMW Oracle boat defeated the Swiss to win the America’s Cup last weekend, by the […]

EMC has upgraded the hardware and information management software in its Atmos cloud infrastructure package.Atmos, launched in May 2009, offers cloud storage capacity that includes enterprise-level services such as data movement policies and data retention controls.The on-premises system is designed to help IT managers automate and optimize the distribution of unstructured information across geographically dispersed […]

SUNNYVALE, Calif.-Startup Virsto on Feb. 16 introduced both itself and a new brand of storage virtualization software, a product that the company promises will put much-needed law and order into willy-nilly data flow inside virtualized systems.Data gets scrambled as if in a blender when it travels from servers through pipelines to a hypervisor and then […]

10 Cloud Computing Trends That Are Rapidly Catching On by Chris Preimesberger The Public-Private Hybrid Is Here to Stay The hybrid cloud model is here to stay. We will see the use of private clouds by some large companies and the use of public clouds by some smaller companies. Moving some applications such as CRM […]

Here at The Station, we write a lot about data residing in storage arrays, servers, the cloud, flash thumb drives, etc. Because data moves so fast, it’s easy to take for granted the security of the actual transit path our important shared information takes to get from one place to another. So, in the interest […]

Did you see The Station’s story on Nasuni’s new cloud gateway yesterday in eWEEK? If you missed it, check it out here. Nasuni [for NAS-unity] Filer is a virtual NAS file server/front end that runs on VMware and uses publicly available cloud resources — namely, Amazon S3, Iron Mountain Digital, Nirvanex and Rackspace — to […]

Dell, already one of the world’s top three IT hardware sellers, remains focused on building up its data center software catalog.The server, storage and computer maker took a giant step toward optimizing and untangling complicated virtual machine administration Feb. 11 when it announced it will acquire systems management appliance maker Kace Networks.Dell did not disclose […]

Imagine if you or your business had a familiar-looking, Web-based storage file application that Windows-familiar users-meaning just about everybody-can use to store and retrieve primary files from a cloud provider.This is now possible, thanks to startup Nasuni, which on Feb. 9 introduced a beta version of its new NAS cloud storage gateway, Nasuni Filer.Nasuni Filer […]