Chris Preimesberger

EAST PALO ALTO, Calif.-Earlier this week, in a conference room here at the Four Seasons, some of the most powerful figures in Silicon Valley gathered for an informal meeting to discuss the state of IT in general and, by the way, how the rapidly zig-zagging economy also is impacting it.The conference, hosted by the DLA […]

Flash memory provider Samsung said Oct. 22 it has withdrawn its $26-per-share bid to acquire innovative but struggling NAND flash maker SanDisk. SanDisk’s common stock was trading at slightly above $10 on Oct. 22.The move by Samsung comes a mere two days after longtime flash memory partners Toshiba and SanDisk announced an agreement that turns […]

Despite the nosedive in the overall U.S. economy during the last month of the quarter, data storage giant EMC posted yet another exemplary financial report Oct. 22, recording its 21st consecutive quarter of double-digit, year-over-year revenue growth.The company did advise, however, that it does believe overall IT spending will slow down during the next 12 […]

Hewlett-Packard has been enabling its server/storage array and data center design customers to save power and cooling costs since long before it became the bandwagon topic it is today.The company itself has always been ecology-minded, going way back to the 1970s, when it put more efficient power supplies into its network printers, offered holistic data […]

Michael “Vizionary” Vizard, one of my most esteemed colleagues here at eWEEK, has a good blogster today on Cleversafe that we’d recommend for a quick, enlightened read. Cleversafe is a Chicago-based, open-source storage software provider that comes at the storage area-network idea from a very different angle. Here’s how their “dispersed-storage” process works. As Michael […]

A survey of C-level technology executives revealed Oct. 20 that a substantial majority believe that the industry is currently being hit-and will continue to be hit-especially hard by the downturn in the U.S. macroeconomy and that it is not a short-term situation.DLA Piper, an international law firm that does venture capital and intellectual property work […]

Flash memory providers Toshiba and SanDisk, partners for the last several years, announced an agreement Oct. 20 that turns over 30 percent of SanDisk’s share of current manufacturing capacity of the companies’ joint ventures to Toshiba. In exchange, SanDisk will get equipment-leasing cost reductions and a cash infusion amounting to about $1 billion.The deal throws […]

Companies that aren’t solely focused on data storage made some of the most important news at Storage Networking World in Dallas Oct. 13 to 16. Cisco Systems, for example, which is plunging swiftly into the data center systems business while continuing to roll along as the world’s No. 1 networking infrastructure supplier, unveiled some groundbreaking […]

The Station wanted to expand upon a point made in a story published Oct. 16 on eWEEK, “How the ‘Down’ Macroeconomy Will Impact the Data Storage Sector.” Most people and organizations are not good editors of digital files. It’s too easy to keep everything and simply buy more storage as needed. After all, it takes […]

And so the theorizing begins: How will the impending recession in the overall U.S. economy be impacting the various sections of the IT storage and data center businesses?As vital as they are to the continuity of business, the data storage, archiving, disaster recovery, e-discovery, risk management and online storage businesses are certainly not immune from […]

Storage new-product news usually involves items that are bigger, faster and cheaper, as disk drives themselves become more capacious and cutthroat competition lowers pricing. However, EMC’s Iomega, well-known for personal disk storage products such as the Zip and Jaz drives, is coming out with new products that are smaller-yet “bigger” in capacity-and cheaper.Iomega on Oct. […]

Novell added a major piece to its data center management software portfolio Oct. 15 when it acquired privately held Managed Objects. Terms of the deal were not made available.Managed Objects, which has been in business in the Washington, D.C., area since 1997, makes business service management software. Novell develops open-source software that manages various kinds […]