Chris Preimesberger

That’s right. The Station is tweeting new items and good quotes from today’s Oracle+Sun event, in which Oracle will explain how integrating a 27,000-employee company like Sun Microsystems is going to work. Inquiring minds want to know. If you want to listen in at some point to the Webcast, here is the URL. You will […]

Network and application management software provider SolarWinds moved into the growing storage resource management business Jan. 27 when it acquired Tek-Tools’ Profiler software package for $42 million in cash and stock.Austin, Texas-based SolarWinds will bring about 60 Tek-Tools employees into its realm as a result of the transaction. Tek-Tools, based in Dallas, will remain its […]

REDWOOD CITY, Calif.-Oracle CEO and co-founder Larry Ellison took turns discounting rumors, chiding IBM, and extolling the speed and scalability of combined Oracle-Sun data center products Jan. 27 before a packed auditorium here on the bayside campus of the world’s second-largest software maker.Actually, Oracle from today on will need to be described as a full-service […]

REDWOOD CITY, Calif. — Oracle, which earlier in the day closed its $7.4 billion acquisition of Sun Microsystems following nine months of thorny legal exercises, Jan. 27 explained to the media how it is morphing the creator of Java, Solaris and the Zettabyte File System and its 27,600 employees into its own database-driven world.Oracle executives, […]

Sun Microsystems co-founder and Chairman Scott McNealy, 55, the main face and voice of Sun throughout its 28-year history, told employees Jan. 26 he is stepping down and exiting the company he helped start up during the Reagan administration.McNealy told his employees and former employees in a long, rambling e-mailed memo obtained by eWEEK that […]

As the world’s data multiplies, EMC keeps right on selling places to keep it — and making a handsome profit at the same time.The world’s largest independent data storage company Jan. 26 reported a fourth-quarter profit of $426.5 million [20 cents per share] — up 54 percent from a year ago — as demand for […]

If data storage companies were dinosaurs, EMC would be Tyrannosaurus Rex. If they were all fish, EMC would be a shark. Nothing wrong with being a T-Rex or a shark. They’re just large and fearsome. As we know, these animals eat lots of other animals, because that’s what they have to do to survive. They’re […]

The InfoPro, one of the better storage analyst firms around, came out with a report Jan. 25 that bears a good look. The New York City-based firm said its new data shows “further effects of the recession on Fortune 1000 and midsize enterprise storage organizations.” Basically, the report says that budgets are still going to […]

Virtualization software maker VMware on Jan. 25 dazzled Wall Street with its quarterly results and cautiously predicted that its sales and licensing income growth could more than double in 2010 over the previous year-if the economy continues to improve.Revenue for the company increased 18 percent to $608 million, substantially above the average analyst forecast of […]

Apple’s anticipated tablet PC won’t be introduced until Jan. 27, yet analysts have already been projecting its influence on various supply markets. Since the new device apparently will rely heavily on NAND flash for its computing and storage needs, and because the most recent products Apple has produced have tended to sell very well, the […]

How far the mighty have fallen! Fortune magazine announced Jan. 22 that network storage provider NetApp has been knocked from its No. 1-in-the-world perch in 2009 and slipped all the way down to No. 7 in its annual “100 Best Companies to Work for” list for 2010. What’s going here? A chef in the cafeteria […]

Online storage provider Carbonite on Jan. 22 launched an application that covers the iPhone-to-PC backup gap. Carbonite’s new offering is an extension of its remote access feature, in which a user can access backed-up files on a computer at home or office through a mobile device — and now through an iPhone or iPod Touch. […]