Chris Preimesberger

Iomega keeps cranking out desktop storage machines that off the top appear to be way underpriced. But that’s simply the result of continued intense competition in the marketplace right now, and the customer gets to reap the benefits.Back on Aug. 31, the company rolled out its StorCenter ix4-200d at price of $700 for 2 terabytes […]

At last month’s VMworld 2009 conference in San Francisco, VMware CEO Paul Maritz told a large audience of developers, customers, partners, analysts and journalists that VMware planned to put muscle on the bones of its basic vSphere 4.0 Cloud OS virtualization manager, and that is indeed starting to take place.The data recovery function turned out […]

Dataram, which ranks only a few notches below IBM and HP in IT business longevity (42 years), has introduced a new storage optimization appliance with rather fantastic claims: Chief Technologist Jason Caulkins told The Station that it will deliver 10x-30x performance improvements to existing applications. If you could plug in a box that would speed […]

It took a little while for IBM to define its corporate approach to cloud computing during the last few years, but now that it has one, the world’s largest IT company is going all out in the sector.On Oct. 6 at its Information Infrastructure Analyst Summit in Boston, the company introduced three more additions to […]

Minnesota-based Xiotech announced Oct. 5 that it is extending what turned out to be a popular sales program, “Cash for Disk Clunkers,” through the end of the calendar year. The Cash for Disk Clunkers program isn’t far off the path set by President Obama in the automobile industry, except that there are no federal dollars […]

Networking provider Brocade Communications Systems made some headlines and subsequently saw its stock price jump Oct. 5 when it was leaked that it might be up for sale.That got some people in the data center business thinking again about NetApp, a highly successful storage appliance company that endured a body blow when EMC outbid it […]

Pittsburgh-based storage newcomer Avere Systems introduced a series of new-generation NAS [network-attached storage] devices that dynamically move data between standard hard drive and solid-state drive tiers, depending upon what the workload requires. Obviously, this kind of system is one that can pay dividends over time in terms of capacity provisioning, efficient storage capacity management and […]

Compellent on Sept. 30 launched a series of Fibre Channel storage packages in preset configurations for small and midsize size businesses that have little or no IT staff.The QuickStart SE bundles consist of storage software and hardware in starter configurations. They include a number of high-end storage features previously unavailable for smaller deployments, according to […]

The Green Grid, a consortium of about 220 data center-related technology companies, had a high-visibility day on Oct. 2, ringing the closing bell at the New York Stock Exchange and meeting with media and analysts to introduce new tools and reports that data center managers can use to improve power efficiency in their operations.The Green […]

The Station just came across a storage company called General Atomics. And you thought all the good names for IT companies were taken. In any case, the San Diego, Calif.-based company received some good news Sept. 30: It has been awarded a $22.5 million, multiyear, multisite project by the High Performance Computing Modernization Program Office […]

Xiotech, one of the more innovative midsize data storage companies, has a new president and CEO as of Oct. 1. He is Alan Atkinson, who moves over from EMC to succeed Casey Powell, who served four years as the company’s CEO. Powell will remain with Xiotech as a member of its board of directors, the […]

Toshiba and Fujitsu said Oct. 1 that they have signed final papers that clear the way for Toshiba to take over Fujitsu’s multinational hard drive design and manufacturing businesses.Financial details of the buyout, which has been in the works for months, were not disclosed. The two companies, which came to this agreement back in February, […]