Chris Preimesberger

UPDATED: Just remember, you read this here first. Both IBM and Hewlett-Packard, the Nos. 1 and 2 IT system-and-service vendors in the world, will be making big news announcements around blade servers, storage and virtualization on Tuesday, Sept. 2. IBM will be introducing its first blade server designed specifically to reduce security threats. HP is […]

Dell, in its zeal to expand its nonenterprise market share in Europe and in various IT sectors, may have expended too much marketing energy and cash trying to set up retail outlets and woo consumers over to its laptops, desktops and peripherals. Dell revealed in its quarterly report on Aug. 28 (link will expire in […]

Storage infrastructure provider Adaptec is getting back into the ASIC production business. Adaptec announced Aug. 27 that it is acquiring privately held RAID board maker Aristos Logic for about $41 million in cash.Aristos employs about 75 people and has been supplying a handful of the top 10 largest storage makers with application-specific integrated circuits since […]

Michael Phelps and Usain Bolt weren’t the only superstars at the Beijing Olympics who set some eye-popping records over in Beijing. The Station just saw some numbers from NBC and Sun Microsystems, which will soon release the results of the NBCOlympics.com Web metrics that show how the site served as a significant supplement to television. […]

Cisco Systems is heading into a big-time “co-opetition” to handle enterprise e-mail against a longtime partner, Microsoft, thanks to the Aug. 27 acquisition of privately held PostPath.Cisco will pay a total of $215 million for PostPath and expects to close the deal in Cisco’s first quarter of fiscal year 2009.PostPath will provide the final piece […]

The Federal Aviation Administration’s flight plan IT network, which went down for about 2.5 hours Aug. 26 and fouled up the takeoff plans of thousands of travelers in more than 40 airports across the country, was back up and running Aug. 27.IT staff were still troubleshooting it today in Hampton, Ga., where the agency’s primary […]

UPDATED: If you ever have the urge to literally bake a computer hard drive at high temperature and see if it survives to deliver data another day, well, don’t bother. Fujitsu and a newish company called ioSafe already have been there and done that. And they are quite willing to give you a full report […]

Yep. Looks like Gartner, that internationally respected IT analyzer famous for its Magic Quandrants, has reported more proof of something The Station has been writing about for a while: that second-generation SAN (storage area network) maker Compellent Technologies is the fastest-growing block-based external storage company in the world. For two years in a row, no […]

It’s a quiet Friday afternoon here at the Silicon Valley headquarters of Storage Station. The cool breeze off San Francisco Bay feels refreshing as it wafts through the screen in my office window. Those nasty black squirrels that have dominated the neighborhoods here for years since escaping from a breeding test gone awry over at […]

Solid-State Memory Will Kill HHDs SSD (solid-state drive) storage will ultimately kill HHD (hybrid hard drive) disk storage. Not everyone will agree. It could take years, perhaps even a full generation, but spinning disk storage will give way to the simpler, more efficient solid-state form factor. Here’s why SSD storage will kill HHD storage. Solid-State […]

Upstart open-source storage vendor Cleversafe, which recently was a finalist in eWEEK’s 2008 Excellence Awards for new software, identifies itself as the “leading provider of Dispersed Storage technology and software.” We’ll define that in a minute; read on, please. The Chicago-based company announced this week that its first appliance-based products to create a dsNet (Dispersed […]

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