Chris Preimesberger

IBM revealed Jan. 22 that digital tape-thought dead by many storage industry people for more than a decade-still has plenty of room for development. Researchers, led by IBM Fellow Evangelos Eleftheriou, demonstrated a world record in areal data density on linear magnetic tape. The research and testing were done over the last few years at […]

We’ll be talking a lot more about cloud storage in 2010 [as if we didn’t talk about it last year]. A number of clever new companies are coming to the fore with good ideas in this space. Egnyte is one of them. The Mountain View, Calif.-based newcomer specializes in building file servers for cloud computing. […]

Oracle won its protracted legal disagreement with the European Commission Jan. 21 when the agency’s antritrust regulators approved the company’s $7.4 billion acquisition of Sun Microsystems. The world’s second-largest software maker now can do business combined with Sun in the 27-country European Union. Oracle sells more than 20 percent of its software in the European […]

Redmond, Wash.-based Synology America, a rising supplier of next-generation network-attached storage products for consumers and small-to-medium-sized businesses, on Jan. 20 began shipping a fast new five-bay NAS array with a lot of enterprise-type features. The DiskStation DS1010+ is designed for smaller businesses with growing storage needs — in other words, all SMBs — who seek […]

Oracle’s complicated nine-month-long mission to acquire Sun Microsystems will come to an end at some point in the next seven days.The world’s second-largest software company is now confident enough that the European Commission will sanction the acquisition that on Jan. 20 it called a news conference for Jan. 27 to unveil its “Oracle+Sun” strategy for […]

Don’t forget that the e-discovery business wouldn’t exist without reliable data storage. So this is no peripheral topic for The Station. Bringing e-discovery software in-house for legal purposes looks like a legitimate trend for 2010 and beyond, thanks to the impressive cost and content control it brings to users. E-discovery software used to be a […]

Schooner Information Technology, a provider of solid-state data access appliances for Web 2.0 enterprises, cloud computing and enterprise data centers, has found its new No. 1 business executive. The startup, based in Sunnyvale, Calif., announced the appointment Jan. 12 of longtime industry executive Jerry Rudisin as its new president and CEO. Rudisin brings to Schooner […]

OK, well, somebody had to come out and say it first at some point. And that somebody was Brent Thill, a San Francisco-based software industry analyst with the international wealth management firm UBS AG. Thill came out with a report for his clients Jan. 13 — first reported by Bloomberg News — that surmises that […]

Compellent announced Jan. 14 that it has upgraded its front-line storage area network, Storage Center 5, with advanced features.Building on Storage Center’s dynamic block-based architecture, the new features are designed to simplify data recovery duties and provide an automated, secure and tiered environment to enterprises of any size.These new features, as described by Compellent, are:Portable […]

Dell on Jan. 14 said that it has enhanced its front-line PowerVault storage portfolio with new 6G-bps SAS-connected arrays that are aimed at small and medium-sized enterprises and corporate branch offices.The new PowerVaults are designed for users who want to expand their server-based storage networks or for those seeking an alternative to a more complex […]

Cisco Systems on Jan. 14 introduced several new network-oriented hardware and software tools for its storage-area network product line that dovetail with the company’s Unified Computing System development effort.With these new tools, IT and network managers can direct data traffic using any protocol from any node to any device within a Cisco fabric.“Cisco is leveraging […]

Rebit—yes, it sounds like what a frog utters—says it is “dedicated to relieving the burden of backup for PC users.” To prove it, the little Longmont, Colo.-based company has launched a new line of desktop storage devices called SaveMe. Rebit’s SaveMe is a backup/system recovery device that starts working as soon as it is installed. […]