Chris Preimesberger

There’s no question that the sudden death on June 25 of the King of Pop, Michael Jackson, has caused the biggest Web traffic surge since the election of President Obama last November. It’s truly a testament to the entertainer’s great talent from people all over the world. While all the surge talk has been about […]

EMC waited until the close of the business day June 26 to extend its $1.8 billion cash offer to snatch midrange storage provider Data Domain away from its original suitor, NetApp.The world’s largest external disk storage provider wants to purchase all outstanding shares of Data Domain common stock for $30 per share. NetApp’s offer of […]

Three-quarters of IT executives surveyed believe virtualization by itself can play a major role in an enterprise disaster recovery plan, but it in no way represents a complete answer to a DR strategy, according to a “State of Disaster Recovery” survey released June 25 by market researcher Harris Interactive.While many IT decision makers say they […]

Virtualization investments in data centers and in enterprise IT systems are beginning to pay off — sometimes very handsomely — for early adopters. More and more examples of this are coming to the fore in these days of a sharply reduced-spending economy. The most recent example: San Francisco-based IT services provider BEAR Data Systems, a […]

SanDisk, which makes and sells more Flash memory cards for digital cameras than anybody else, on June 24 unveiled what it claims is the world’s fastest 32GB card — one that has both the capacity and I/O speed to handle HD video clips. SanDisk’s Extreme SDHC card features a sustained write speed — up to […]

With companies such as Seagate, Synology, Cisco Systems, Rebit, FalconStor, Iomega and several others elbowing each other in the desktop personal storage market with inexpensive yet capacious machines, it seems as if there is little room for another competitor.No worries. Turns out there’s plenty of room for everybody. All these things are selling like lemonade […]

In the environmentally conscious section of enterprise IT, there are two camps: the true green-bleeding companies who innovate, and the so-called “greenwashers.” The latter are organizations that simply hitch their wagons to others and pretend to be green IT leaders, when in fact they are merely using the appearance of being good environmental citizens to […]

The Swiss National Supercomputing Centre in Manno, Switzerland, announced June 22 that it has upgraded its current Cray XT3 supercomputer to an even faster Cray XT5 system, and that it selected LSI to handle the massive storage requirement. The announcement was made on the opening day of the International Supercomputing Conference 2009 in Hamburg, Germany.The […]

Following its corporate upheaval in January, Seagate Technology has made it clear that it wants to own the branded small office/home office storage market and not simply be known as the world’s largest supplier of spinning disk drives to other manufacturers. Seagate on June 22 expanded its growing portfolio of external storage products for small […]

Massive Storage Arrays Help DreamWorks Make Digital Movie Magic Where Many Famous Film Characters Live One of the studio’s three data storage centers is located in an attractive new building at the Pacific Shores Center on the edge of the San Francisco Bay in Redwood City, Calif.(Photo by Chris Preimesberger, eWEEK) No Title The Data […]

Storage area network-maker Compellent’s annual C-Drive Conference in Minneapolis is always a first-class event. The Station moderated a panel discussion there last year and was all set to go again this time until a family health issue came up. Sigh. Maybe next year. At its May 2009 conference, Compellent did some polling of attendees during […]

Any time a company proves it can save seven figures’ worth of cash for a client, that’s good news. According to the city of Minneapolis, Unisys’ data center outsourcing service has saved it $18 million—and improved its services to taxpayers—over the last five years. Now those are serious bucks. Minneapolis used to run its own […]