Chris Preimesberger

There’s been a Cone of Silence for a week now around the impending IBM acquisition of Sun Microsystems. When such a mystery takes place, people get nervous. We’re just so used to things happening now and in real time that we often take our eyes off the prize far too quickly. Well, this deal just […]

SANTA CLARA, Calif.-The promise of cloud computing is pretty darn alluring. You can ostensibly get your workload done everyday and not need to buy software or hardware; capital expenses start shrinking; maintenance and head count costs are lower; scalability is there if you need it; and so forth.However, as in journalism, there are two sides […]

You never know what’s going to tickle the readers’ fancies here at eWEEK. Take today, for example: The Station put together a slide show on new products in the solid-state storage sector, and wowsie, did that one explode off the blocks (an ancient track & field analogy). The news desks in New York and San […]

Western Digital, the second-largest hard disk drive maker in the world behind Seagate Technology, said March 30 it had acquired neighboring SiliconSystems for $65 million in cash. WD is located in Lake Forest, Calif., only a few miles from SiliconSystems’ headquarters in Aliso Viejo, Calif.SiliconSystems, founded in 2002, is a major supplier of embedded SSDs […]

Solid-State Disks Invading Storage World by Chris Preimesberger No Title Fusion-io, which is working on handheld-size solid-state storage arrays that the company claims can do the same enterprise-level heavy lifting as conventional rack arrays, has been making a lot of news lately. In February it signed Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak as its chief scientist, and […]

Internet Archive Gets a Place in the Sun (Portable Data Center) No Title Brewster Kahle, founder of the Internet Archive and a longtime digital librarian, demonstrates how big he thinks the Internet is at the launch event of the archive project in Santa Clara, Calif. No Title The Internet Archive is powered by 60 Sun […]

SAN FRANCISCO-Dell had a busy day March 25, launching a flotilla of new products that included five snazzy new midrange storage arrays from its EqualLogic division, three new towers for high-performance workstations and a new server.When Michael Dell announced that his company was acquiring EqualLogic and its second-generation iSCSI storage system for $1.4 billion in […]

So while the legalese continues to be smoothed out, sliced, diced and relegated to memory by IBM lawyers in the upcoming Big Blue acquisition of Sun Microsystems, another angle to the story came out March 24. This is from two excellent Storage Station sources: Apparently only a short time ago, dyed-in-the-wool Sun enemy Hewlett-Packard and […]

The Woz is in the news again.Steve Wozniak, co-founder and former chief technologist of Apple Computer, revealed March 24 that he is joining DeepDyve, a Sunnyvale, Calif.-based search engine startup, as an advisory board member.Wozniak, 59, has been busy lately. In addition to his high-visibility role on ABC-TV’s “Dancing With the Stars,” he joined solid-state […]

SAN FRANCISCO-Open-source software and middleware, which is now populating every part of modern data centers, has always had to fight a reputation-deserved or undeserved-of being simply too “Wild West” for many enterprises. Not so anymore, Alfresco’s general manager for the Americas, Matt Asay, told a near full-house audience in his opening remarks at the sixth […]

Data deduplication specialist Data Domain March 23 became the latest storage vendor to announce the option of quad-core processors in its architecture for midrange systems. Data Domain’s DD660 system is really a combination server/storage architecture, with the x86 quad-core chips running the system in the controller. Intel unveiled the first quad-core storage server — the […]

What do Cisco Systems’ key competitors in the data center systems business really think of the big networking fish that will soon be flopping around in their pond, trying to gain new market share?Cisco announced on March 16 its Unified Computing System strategy, which includes the production of new network-centric server, software and services that […]