Chris Preimesberger

Symantec’s new CEO, Enrique Salem, told attendees in a keynote address at the Storage Networking World conference in Orlando, Fla., April 7 that enterprises should stop buying new storage and focus on obtaining better mileage from their existing systems.“Stop buying storage. You heard me right: Stop buying storage,” Salem said. “How? Reduce the amount of […]

After turning down a reported $7 billion offer to be acquired by IBM on April 4, Sun Microsystems’ board of directors is scheduled to gather today, April 8, to discuss its next move, eWEEK has learned.Talks between Sun lawyers and executives-including Chairman/co-founder Scott McNealy, CEO Jonathan Schwartz and the board members-have been tabled since the […]

You know in the old movies, when the reporters are all sitting around in the press room, playing cards and smoking cigarettes, waiting for the verdict to come in from the jury at the big trial? That’s the way IT and business journalists are feeling right about now in covering the alleged IBM acquisition of […]

Data Robotics, a 4-year-old startup that has circumvented conventional RAID by using a new approach to direct-attached enterprise storage, on April 7 launched DroboPro, billing it as “the first business-class storage array that manages itself.”The DroboPro software features advanced self-monitoring and self-healing functionality and is designed for use by business-not necessarily IT-trained-personnel.Using the BeyondRAID virtualized […]

Netbooks at CTIA Wireless 2009: Quality Trumps Quantity by Chris Preimesbergerin Las Vegas No Title The Samsung N310, released to retail in mid-March in the West Pacific Rim, is a smooth-edged, 10.1-inch-screen netbook with a “pebbled” keyboard that features lifted and separated keys. The keyboard is 97 percent the size of a regular keyboard, making […]

Sun Microsystems had better have something else up its corporate sleeve.History is written so it can repeat itself. It was less than a year ago, on Aug. 1, 2008, that Eric Jackson, president of Ironfire Capital, an investment fund that owns 3.2 million shares of Yahoo, told eWEEK after the company spurned a $47 billion […]

Fusion-io, which makes handheld-size solid-state storage arrays for enterprise systems, announced April 6 that it has broken an I/O speed barrier of sorts: 1 million IOPS and 8GB per second of sustained throughput, running on a single Hewlett-Packard ProLiant server.Fusion-io’s frontline product, the ioDrive, is the first direct-attached, solid-state server storage array that uses PCIe […]

Sun Microsystems has finalized significant changes to its sales and service organization, resulting in a more centrally structured chain of command-a significant move away from the distributed regional model it has used for years.Employees were informed of the changes through an internal memo issued April 2.Under the new plan, Sun’s top salespeople will focus exclusively […]

IBM is apparently closer to closing a deal to acquire Sun Microsystems after negotitating down the per-share price from between $10 and $11 per share to between $9 and $10, the Wall Street Journal reported April 2.Apparently, Sun has agreed to accept the lower price in return for stronger commitments from IBM that it will […]

LAS VEGAS — The Station took a little detour in his regular data center/storage/virtualization/cloud computing/green IT beats and went to the Nevada desert to catch the opening day of CTIA Wireless 2009 at the Convention Center. I filed a couple of stories — one on Verizon’s LTE plans and one on netbooks. Normally, this show […]

LAS VEGAS-It was amazing to discover that most of the big-brand portable computer makers on April 1 decided to skip out on the world’s largest event dedicated to wireless gadgets: CTIA Wireless 2009, here at the Convention Center.That’s correct. Recessionary budget cuts left major-league names such as Dell, Lenovo, MSI, Acer, Asus, Hewlett-Packard and even […]

LAS VEGAS-There’s plenty of news and new products to interest approximately 30,000 attendees on the opening day of the CTIA Wireless show here at the Las Vegas Convention Center. Not only did Research In Motion officially unveil its BlackBerry App World “on-device” store, a formidable-looking new competitor to Apple’s iTunes online music, video and application […]