Chris Preimesberger

SAN FRANCISCO-Three of the biggest companies in the IT world are combining next-version technologies to make it more palatable for enterprises to install and configure Oracle‘s monster data warehouse, a complicated clustered-storage project that takes months to deploy to full production.The three vendors introduced a new version of Oracle Optimized Warehouse for Dell and EMC […]

Seagate Technology said Sept. 23 that it has created a new wholly owned subsidiary called i365 that will comprise its EVault, MetaLINCS, and Seagate Recovery Services companies, which previously were operating loosely under the name Seagate Services. As of Sept. 23 these companies-each of which Seagate acquired within the last two years-will be known formally […]

Fujitsu Group has established a new company, Fujitsu North America Holding, to serve as the central clearinghouse for Fujitsu’s IT products and services base in North America.The new corporate entity, which opens for business Oct. 1, will combine Fujitsu Consulting, Fujitsu Computer Systems and Fujitsu Transaction Solutions in one unified corporate structure.The announcement is similar […]

SAN FRANCISCO — EMC on Sept. 22 said its Symmetrix DMX-4 storage systems — which have a reputation for slowing down as they load up more and more data — are showing much faster I/O speeds running Oracle database applications when they are outfitted with new enterprise-class flash drives.Off the top, this isn’t altogether surprising, […]

More evidence of the continued trickle-down of high-performance computing capabilities to enterprises and small-to-medium-size businesses came Sept. 22 from a company not exactly well-known for HPC: Microsoft.At the 2008 High Performance on Wall Street Conference in New York, Microsoft announced that it has released to manufacturing its newest server, Windows HPC Server 2008. The new […]

With the announced acquisition of enterprise instant messaging provider Jabber on Sept. 19, Cisco Systems is adding another key girder to its construction of a unified communications and collaboration product portfolio.Cisco, which already had a basic instant messaging option but one that didn’t scale for an enterprise nearly as well as Jabber’s, has just about […]

SANTA CLARA, Calif.-SanDisk, the innovative but struggling NAND flash maker, flatly rejected a formal bid by Samsung for a $26-per-share takeover Sept. 17, but that event is hardly the final chapter in this new storage sector soap opera.Samsung, the South Korean IT giant that is one of the two largest providers of NAND flash processors […]

Michael Arrington of TechCrunch reported last evening that people he trusts at Microsoft now confirm Jerry Seinfeld’s literally out of the picture in the company’s $300 million Vista television campaign, which was worse than a train wreck. So it’s three and out: Three commercials, three whiffs. Why are we not surprised? Who came up with […]

3PAR, a high-quality utility and cloud storage vendor with a loyal enterprise client base, often is overlooked by the media because a) it doesn’t have the name-brand recognition of Dell, EMC or NetApp, and b) there’s such a numbers game going on in the sector right now. What does that mean? In athletics, for example, […]

SANTA CLARA, Calif.-Solid-state drives replacing spinning disks in laptops and servers is trendy as a news topic for publications such as eWEEK, but they’re hardly making much of an real impact on the world at the moment. After all, only 473,000 of them were sold worldwide in 2007, and the total number sold in 2008 […]

It’s a sinking feeling when you realize your cell phone isn’t in the place it should be — in its holster, a pocket, a purse or some other personal travel container. So it follows that there have been a lot of sinking feelings lately in New York City, capital of the taxicab business. Credant Technologies, […]

When it rains, yes, it pours. The Station has been so busy reporting, talking to people and Facebooking (yes, that’s now a verb) that we’re not getting enough writing and blogging done. (Writing versus blogging: two different things?) Well, this non-writing dry spell has now officially ended. (Truthfully, we also wish our real dry weather […]