Chris Preimesberger

The Station gets pinged every once in a while by Mac users who complain — and with righteousness, God knows — that we don’t report enough about Mac-related storage. Well, folks, your time has come. Other World Computing said today that it is now shipping a 4GB DDR3 Memory Upgrade Kit for Apple’s new MacBook […]

FalconStor Software, which provides storage software for companies such as Sun Microsystems and EMC and doesn’t get a lot of recognition for it, said Oct. 13 that its FalconStor Network Storage Server is the first package to include full block-level support for failover and disaster recovery for Microsoft’s new Windows Server 2008. FalconStor provides “near-instantaneous […]

It turns out there are some so-called dirty little secrets that not every vendor will tell you about archiving products. They fall into five categories of “secrets”: scalability, data protection, performance, data migration and energy efficiency.Dirty Little Secret No. 1: Scalability. CAS(content-addressable storage) archives have a hard limit on the number of objects that can […]

If you’re an IT manager considering a major-or even a minor-data archiving buy, there are a few things you should be sure to take into consideration. It turns out there are some so-called dirty little secrets that not every vendor will tell you about archiving products.By this is meant that customers of data archive systems, […]

Now here’s a great response from a smart company to the current U.S. financial panic: Lower prices for a hot item—storage in the cloud. Amazon Web Services Oct. 9 announced that it will lower prices for the very popular Amazon Simple Storage Service (known as Amazon S3) effective Nov. 1. The new tiered pricing will […]

Venture capital firm Sequoia Capital, known for backing IT mega-hits such as Google, Apple and YouTube, Oct. 9 became one of the first VC firms to issue a strict advisory warning to both startups and established companies in their portfolios to trim expenses, cut ancillary jobs and contractors and tighten budget belts.Web 2.0 blogster Om […]

EMC is a $23.5 billion company that makes no secret of the fact that in the 80 countries in which it does business, it has notched 20 consecutive quarters of double-digit, year-over-year revenue growth. It certainly has a right to be proud; this is an enviable accomplishment in any market.Even in the volatile U.S. macroeconomy, […]

1. How EMC was bornOn Aug. 23, 1979, EMC was born in Richard Egan’s Newton, Mass. home. To raise money for their future business, Egan and Roger Marino (the “E” and “M” in EMC) began working as product reps selling a special desk specifically designed for computer users. Sales of the desk eventually funded development […]

Dell on Oct. 7 introduced a new disk-to-disk backup and recovery package and aimed it squarely at midmarket enterprises with few or no IT staff members, which is still by far the fastest-growing enterprise market segment.Dell touts that its new PowerVault DL2000 cuts backup process time in half and data “restore” times by three-quarters, as […]

Risk management, secure and managed file transfers, e-discovery, e-mail archiving, and enterprise search are all positioned for a boom as the business and financial sector call on their unique services more than ever. 1. Risk management Companies that offer risk assessment tools, such as RSA Security, CA, BMC, McAfee, Symantec, Hewlett-Packard, SAP, Fortify and NitConnect, […]

Now is a good time to be an e-discoveryware provider. Companies such as Kazeon, Autonomy, Clearwell Systems, Attenex, Symantec, Seagate Technology’s MetaLINCS, Iron Mountain’s Stratify, LexisNexis, Recommind and some other smaller companies stand to gain business from what many expect to be a surge in litigation surrounding the Wall Street financial crisis. These companies, by […]

Like any movement in the U.S. macroeconomy, the current banking implosion and subsequent credit contraction are hurting a lot of enterprises, but it also is uncovering some opportunities for those in the right place at the right time. As the government takes over banks such as Washington Mutual and investment houses such as Bear Stearns, […]