Chris Preimesberger

In a union between two influential solid-state memory and storage players, Micron Technology said Feb. 10 that it will acquire Numonyx for $1.27 billion in an all-stock transaction, based on Micron’s current price of about $9 per share.Numonyx is a flash memory joint venture startup created by Intel and STMicroelectronics in March 2008 to develop […]

NetApp’s been partnering around a lot lately. Following the deal it is doing with Cisco and VMware to offer an optimized next-generation data center hardware architecture, the “good little file server company” that grew up [as once described by its chairman, Dan Warmenhoven] has re-upped its deal with CA to keep their cloud management development […]

Back on Nov. 3, 2009, Cisco Systems, VMware and EMC came to the media with an announcement that they would collaborate on a new joint venture, the Virtual Computing Environment, to produce cloud computing systems called vBlocks that integrate hardware and software from all three companies.Three months later, two of those players-Cisco and VMware-have now […]

When it comes to enterprise-grade hard drives, smaller is turning out to be better-and for a lot of reasons. Seagate, the world’s highest-volume producer of HHDs, Feb. 9 began shipping a new 600GB, 2.5-inch enterprise drive to its OEMs that runs at 10,000 rpm. Most enterprise drives run at 5,400 or 7,200 rpm.Seagate said the […]

Somebody should think about staging an actual I/O race among some of the solid-state disk companies, because almost all of them claim to have the fastest gun in the west for new mobile devices. Maybe The Station will organize some kind of controlled speed-off competition between proud and dignified companies such as Samsung, SanDisk, Western […]

Hewlett-Packard is coming at enterprise storage organization problems from a Microsoft SharePoint-read that nonstorage-vantage point.HP on Feb. 8 introduced a new version of its Web-based records management package, TRIM (Total Records Information Management) 7, which enables an enterprise to manage all of its Microsoft SharePoint Server records within a single environment-regardless of the source of […]

Following a professional conference, most of us return loaded down with things like: a) yet another cheapo backpack, b) a pile of company brochures, c) a stack of new business cards, and d) schwaggy items, like T-shirts and light-up yo-yo’s. Unless you’ve videoed all the events you attended, you’ll have to rely on your notes […]

SAN JOSE, Calif.-Two-thirds of enterprises that deploy data centers currently have no corporate incentives in place for increasing energy efficiency in those IT systems, industry research made public Feb. 4 by The Green Grid reported.This equates with the fact that most companies are not currently offering incentives to their employees to help increase energy efficiency, […]

The Station reported on Jan. 26 that Sun Microsystems Chairman and co-founder Scott McNealy and CEO Jonathan Schwartz would not be moving to the newly combined Oracle Sun organization, which plans to become an important player in the next-generation storage market. McNealy sent an email that day to all current and many former Sun employees […]

SAN JOSE, Calif. — Environmentalist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told members of the Green Grid Technical Forum in a keynote address Feb. 4 that he believes the IT sector should be the prime mover in the establishment of a new power grid able to transport renewable power resources over long distances. Kennedy (pictured) identified wind, […]

SAN JOSE, Calif.-The Green Grid, which has quickly become one of the more influential green IT organizations in the world in only three years of existence, on Feb. 4 introduced two freely available online tools to help data center managers keep track of power and cooling efficiency.The Green Grid’s new Power Efficiency Estimator enables data […]

10 Important Enterprise Disaster Recovery Tips for IT Managers by Chris Preimesberger Plan for Enterprise-Class Capacity Requirements The volume of data continues to grow exponentially. The most efficient and cost-effective disaster recovery strategy is to use a solution that can back up and store petabytes of data on a single system. This can be achieved […]