Chris Preimesberger

There’s no question that whether EMC or NetApp ends up owning storage deduper Data Domain, the top bidder will have paid far too much for the company. DD’s value has tripled artificially in the last 100 days—due strictly to the intense bidding war between the two storage rivals. It’s like an auction for a piece […]

Much of the world stopped what it was doing July 7 to watch the Michael Jackson memorial event in downtown Los Angeles on live television. But another huge number of fans also viewed the event on the Web and commented on it to their friends — using such services as Facebook, Twitter, FriendFeed and other […]

Is EMC allowing its considerable corporate ego to gain control in a non-solicited campaign to acquire Data Domain? And why does it want to add a feature-deduplication-that it already has in spades in its voluminous catalog?Industry analysts who read/research/blog/report on these things tell eWEEK they are generally in agreement: The corporate battle between NetApp, the […]

Since we’re we’re right smack in the middle of the calendar year — and the news flow is slowing down a bit due to summer vacation time — it’s a good time to stop, enjoy a break from hard news and take a high-level look at trends in the storage business. And a good place […]

The people whose job it is to schedule aircraft for takeoff, help guide passengers to their destinations and get them safely back down on the ground finally have some powerful new open-standards computer systems up and running to help them do their work more reliably.The Federal Aviation Administration has endured a lot of grief in […]

Data storage historically has been thought of as a solid, super-important but not-very-exciting sector of IT. Well, “not-very-exciting” is a value judgment made strictly in the mind of the beholder, and storage certainly is not a newsless valley in the overall IT landscape.New products with a connection to data storage, data disaster recovery, deduplication, thin-provisioning, […]

As IT systems get more and more intricately interconnected and virtualized (check out Cisco Systems’ new UCS, a peek into the future), the need for trusted software to keep control and make sense of it all also gets elevated in importance. Some vendors specialize in storage capacity planning (Aptare and MonoSphere are two examples). Some […]

Facebook Finds New Digs in Vintage Silicon Valley Office Text and photos by Chris Preimesberger No Title Facebook CEO and founder Mark Zuckerberg welcomes invitees to the open house on June 15. No Title Facebook staff members and visitors socialize during the open house on the roof garden of the new headquarters, which is located […]

The U.S. Department of Energy already has put a lot of its own power into its Energy Star server and storage programs. Now it is undertaking an ambitious educational program centering on data center energy saving.Through its Save Energy Now program, the DOE is developing several training certificate programs for data center managers that will […]

As NASA begins looking for potential sites for new moon bases, enterprise cloud storage provider Nirvanix is doing its part to hold and protect thousands of digital images that will comprise moon-mapping history.As the archiver of new high-definition digital photos of the moon that will begin transmitting this week from NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), […]

Online enterprise application provider Akamai Technologies announced June 29 that it is partnering with Dubai-based KIT Digital, a maker of IP-based video management software, to deliver streaming video on a new platform that will move content across multiple mediums, including online, mobile networks and IPTV-enabled set-top boxes.The new platform, expected to be released later this […]

Oracle certainly would like to complete its acquisition of Sun Microsystems as soon as possible, but the Department of Justice has, in effect, told the enterprise database giant: “Not so fast.”A deadline for the Department of Justice to file an “all-clear” affidavit passed after 30 days at the end of business on June 26. Approval […]