Chris Preimesberger

Solid-state disk provider Samsung announced Feb. 2 that it has successfully completed customer evaluations of the industry’s first 30-nanometer-class DRAM in 2G-bit densities, and that the results bode well for the technology’s potential to help in saving electricity and the environment.The Korean company’s 30nm-class 2Gb, Green DRAM reduces power consumption by about 30 percent over […]

IBM invigorated its information governance product line Feb. 3 with monitoring and data protection software and services aimed at improving the overall quality of business data for enterprises.IBM’s two new software products, InfoSphere Business Information Monitor and Optim Data Redaction, are designed to help enterprises better manage the access and use of their information.IT governance […]

HP Bids for Wider Market with Half-Size Portable Data Center by Chris Preimesberger Have Data Center, Will Travel Media members and analysts take a tour of the 20x8x8-foot HP Performance-Optimized Datacenter, a module that can just as easily be set up in a parking lot, loaded aboard ship or installed indoors to handle business IT […]

CUPERTINO, Calif.-Hewlett-Packard on Feb. 2 introduced a made-to-order 20-by-8-by-8-foot portable IT system called the Performance-Optimized Datacenter, a module that can just as easily be parked in a parking lot or aboard ship as stationed indoors to handle business IT workloads.For about $600,000, a customer gets a fully enclosed, portable, ready-to-plug-in data center frame that can […]

IT researcher IDC on Feb. 3 offered additional proof — as if any more is needed — that increasing demand by IT buyers for more efficient storage systems will continue to keep deduplication features in high demand during the next year. According to its latest survey, nearly two-thirds of the 501 respondents [companies with 100 […]

Because Oracle’s acquisition of Sun Microsystems affects so many different markets, reaction to the completion of the $7.4 billion deal is still coming in from various corners of the IT world.With all of its newly acquired Sun intellectual property and R&D in hand, Oracle is now moving headlong into the server, storage, processor, networking and, […]

Intel and Micron Technology set the NAND flash capacity bar a little higher and the chip size threshold a little lower Feb. 1 with the introduction of the world’s first 25-nanometer solid-state processor. The 25-nm, 2-bit-per-cell chip can hold 8GB of digital capacity, more than 10 times the 700MB capacity of a standard CD. The […]

CommVault seems to be a very sociable storage company. It is playing nicely with several hot online storage providers, and with the way cloud storage is growing, this appears to be a very smart move. The New Jersey-based company announced Feb. 1 that it is shipping a new “cloud connector” for its Simpana storage software, […]

Oracle Finally Gets to Bask in Satisfaction of Sun Buyout After nine months of jumping through legal hoops, Oracle on Jan. 27 closed its $7.4 billion deal to buy Sun Microsystems. The world’s second-largest software company wasted no time explaining to everybody what it is going to do with its newly acquired hardware, software and […]

Oracle CEO and co-founder, America’s Cup enthusiast, serial entrepreneur and multibillionaire Larry Ellison has never been afraid of expressing himself. He proved it again Jan. 27 at the Oracle+Sun Microsystems road map and strategy event on the Oracle campus. During his hourlong series of remarks about the inclusion of Sun in Oracle’s domain, the state […]

Quantum Chairman and CEO Rick Belluzzo told The Station after his company’s quarterly earnings call on Jan. 28 that Quantum may have lost a good OEM deduplication partner in EMC, but that a replacement will be announced soon. EMC, as you might recall, acquired dedupe specialist Data Domain last year and already had Avamar’s IP […]

Some companies have sales. Others let you pay next year at low interest or offer a money-back guarantee. All kinds of sales incentives are out there making business work. Hitachi Data Systems, in a bold step to separate itself from competitors such as EMC, NetApp, HP and IBM, on Jan. 28 announced one of its […]