Chris Preimesberger

To read the introduction to this Top 10 list, go here: Data Storage 2008: It Was All About Capacity and the Cloud Here are Storage Station blogger and eWEEK Senior Writer Chris Preimesberger’s Top 10 Storage Stories of the year, somewhat in order of importance:Feb. 22: Why We’re Starting to Trust Storage in the CloudOnline […]

IT’s 2008 data storage story centered around three major developments: the steady growth of online backup services, the emergence of private “cloud-type” storage systems for enterprises and continued improvement in the enterprise quality of NAND flash for speedier data access.Another trend involved pricing: Prices came down all over the sector, from high-end EMC, IBM, Hewlett-Packard […]

Dell and EMC, IT systems goliaths that have an intricate storage array marketing relationship, Dec. 9 announced the extension of their global alliance through 2013. Under the previous contract, which centered on EMC’s Clariion product line, the relationship would have ended in 2011.The two companies said they will add the EMC Celerra NX4 storage system, […]

SAN FRANCISCO-It doesn’t have anything called the Sun Cloud Computing platform to demonstrate to potential enterprise clients, but Sun Microsystems appears confident going into 2009 that it can still serve as Cloud Central for companies that want to venture into the vast Internet skies on their own.The company told journalists and analysts Dec. 9 here […]

Here’s more evidence that the data storage business, at least to this point, is unaffected by the U.S. economic downturn that started earlier this year. Researcher Gartner reported Dec. 9 that worldwide external controller-based disk storage revenue totaled $4.3 billion in the third quarter of 2008 — a full 10 percent increase over the same […]

Ziff Davis Enterprise, publisher of eWEEK, on Dec. 9 reported survey results indicating that the data storage sector of IT generally remains unblemished by the economic downturn that is zapping most of the U.S. and world economy.The survey and analysis for the new report, “Outlook for the 2009 Storage Market: An Online Survey of Ziff […]

It’s not very often that a utility literally pays back a customer. NetApp got an early Christmas gift on Dec. 8: a cool $1.4 million rebate from the local power company — Pacific Gas & Electric — in the San Francisco Bay area. Now that news should motivate some other companies to consider modernizing old […]

Harvard University has been recruiting students since the 17th century. On Dec. 8, however, the prestigious institution began recruiting people with computing power to help out in research projects that could benefit mankind in big ways.When a personal computer is on and connected to the Internet but sitting idle, a portion of that computing power […]

Santa Barbara, Calif.-based RightScale, which makes cloud computing management software, announced Dec. 8 that it has secured $13 million in its second round of venture capital funding. Index Ventures was the lead investor.Undoubtedly, this has been in the works since before the Wall Street and mortgage-market implosions. Nonetheless, whenever a VC funding story comes to […]

SAN FRANCISCO–Intel may be known as the world’s largest microprocessor maker, but not many people are aware that the company also is doing a great deal of research in order to get into the energy-sensor and power-optimization businesses.The overall goal: Finding creative ways to identify and harness new sources of power for IT devices that […]

Zigzagging Wall Street numbers may be giving investors indigestion, the mortgage and credit card markets may be in tatters, and the auto industry may be on the verge of collapse. But the IT disk storage market keeps chugging along well into the black as if the macroeconomy were just fine.Researcher IDC reported Dec. 5 in […]

Data center and power-supply industry veteran Paul Marcoux was hired a year ago to serve as director of all of Cisco Systems’ green IT initiatives, and that’s one tall order. Cisco employs some 68,000 people and owns dozens of workplaces around the world.Marcoux (pronounced Mar-KOO), whose official title is vice president of green engineering in […]