Chris Preimesberger

The Station ruffled some journalistic feathers with our previous post. Sorry about that, but it happens in this bidness; it’s part of the job. The editor of ReadWriteWeb, Richard MacManus, told us off in a huff, crying “shame on you” for blasting a lame IT story on his site. It’s a free-speaking/writing country, he’s welcome […]

Get with it, ReadWriteWeb. If you’re going to try to wedge your way into the enterprise IT news business, you’d better make a more impressive showing than the silly piece you published Oct. 2 under the byline of Sarah Perez. The headline is “5 Big Data Center Trends for 2008.” There’s your first mistake. Um, […]

Virtualizing a desktop PC, a server, a storage array or an entire data center to obtain better efficiencies and draw less power certainly makes a lot of sense.As more enterprises each day finish their testing and QA projects, they are putting “virt,” as it is casually known, into production play-whether it’s market-leading VMware, Citrix’s XenSource, […]

Hewlett-Packard made the kind of acquisition Oct. 1 that IBM also is expected to make at some point: It bought a company, LeftHand Networks, a pioneer in second-generation, virtualization-ready data storage area networks for midmarket customers.HP said it will make the deal for $360 million in cash.The acquisition was not a big surprise to storage […]

The Station will make a personal appearance tomorrow, Oct. 1, at a special daylong SDForum conference on “Cloud Computing and Beyond: The Web Grows Up (Finally),” to be held from 9 a.m. to 5:15 p.m. at the Network Meeting Center, Tasman and Great America Parkway, in Santa Clara, Calif. If you happen to be in […]

The largest U.S. financial debacle since the weeks and months following the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on New York and Washington has left no U.S. business unaffected. The IT industry, meaning all sectors of the software, hardware and associated services businesses, is certainly not immune to what is transpiring.Indeed, all financial institutions, by their […]

Flash memory and storage device provider SanDisk said Sept. 29 that it will soon bring to market the world’s largest removable storage capacity for mobile phones-16GB MicroSDHC (SD High Capacity) and Memory Stick Micro mobile memory cards.Best Buy Mobile and Verizon Wireless stores will be the first major retail outlets in the United States to […]

The free fall in the U.S. macroeconomy is going to greatly magnify the importance of the e-discovery software business. Now is a good time to be Kazeon, Autonomy, Clearwell Systems, Attenex, Symantec, Seagate Technology’s MetaLINCS, Iron Mountain’s Stratify, LexisNexis, Recommind or a host of other smaller companies. As the government takes over commercial banks such […]

SANTA CLARA, Calif. — Apparently, there are some real career paths available in the online fraud business. One can become an identity harvester, a software developer who builds botnets, a delivery middleman, a salesperson–the list is long and resembles legitimate businesses in many ways.At an analysts’ briefing Sept. 25 at EMC’s Silicon Valley offices, RSA […]

The Station has been writing so often about the issues dogging U.S. air traffic IT systems lately that we could probably fill a daily blog called “Air Traffic Data Storage Station.” The reasons for this coverage here at eWEEK are many, and they deal with far more than simply IT and data storage. Most of […]

It has endured a lot of grief lately due to some well-documented crashes of its national flight plan-filing system, but the Federal Aviation Administration is finally starting to bring its Cold War-era IT systems into the new century.In the last several months, the FAA has upgraded its legacy internal business systems to a new open-systems […]

A major portion of the decades-old national air traffic control system used to manage thousands of commercial and general aviation takeoffs and landings every day in the United States has crashed multiple times under the 20-year strain of its 24/7 operations.As a result, industry analysts and a number of former Federal Aviation Administration staff members […]