Chris Preimesberger

SANTA CLARA, Calif.-The U.S. Department of Energy, through the Environmental Protection Agency’s EnergyStar program, in 2007 asked Silicon Valley systems makers to take a hard look at how they do business and explore whether they could run their operations and produce IT hardware that could be less power-hungry and more environmentally friendly.Then in August of […]

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — The flash memory sector noted a historic development June 25 when Spansion broke out of stealth mode and introduced a new, industrial-strength brand of the solid-state chip before a small group of analysts, media types and industry people here at the Computer History Museum. Spansion, established five years ago as a […]

MENLO PARK, Calif.-Sun Microsystems has quietly let it slip that it is running private beta tests on a new set of development tools specifically designed for building social networking applications in the cloud. Zmbly, the project’s internal name, was released to a select group of beta testers about a week ago.“You can think about it […]

We’ve been wanting to do this for a while, but now we’re setting aside some actual time and are going to do it: The Station is going to collect the names of as many online [“cloud”] storage services as we can find and will present a side-by-side comparison of them for your reference. We’ll chart […]

Carbonite, a small but popular online data backup provider, made history of sorts in the storage business on June 25 by becoming the first company to have its service bundled and automatically activated with the sale of a personal computer. Every Packard Bell computer sold in Europe, beginning in June, will be shipped with Carbonite […]

Hewlett-Packard this week announced that it is joining a growing group of data storage providers by adding its own brand of deduplication software to its new virtual libraries. Here’s the story. After it posted in advance last Friday, The Station received a call from Daniel Bingham, a PR rep from Sepaton. “Hey, I read your […]

Data Domain, so seriously immersed in data deduplication technology that it changed its Nasdaq stock ticker symbol to “DDUP,” said June 24 that it is now including a new “retention-lock” feature in its storage operating system for IT governance purposes.IT governance is a subset of so-called corporate governance that focuses on risk management in IT […]

Movie Video Storage by the Numbers By Chris Preimesberger 25 million: The number of CPU hours it took to make DreamWorks’ latest computer graphics film, “Kung Fu Panda,” which debuted June 6. “Kung Fu Panda” was created in a three-dimensional-like style and took about three years to make. That compares to about 5 million CPU […]

Symantec has bundled a management software package that combines the Big Three requirements of data center management into one product: systems management, endpoint security and backup/recovery.Using in a single management console, Symantec said June 23 that it has packaged Altiris Client Management Suite 6, Symantec Endpoint Protection 11.0 and Backup Exec System Recovery 8 Desktop […]

Industry insiders are talking about what move Seagate Technology, the world’s largest and most successful disk drive maker, is going to make to get into a better position in the NAND flash market.Analyst Daniel Amir of financial advisory/asset management firm Lazard put out a mergers-and-acquisition research note June 19 speculating that Seagate Technology may buy […]

Hewlett-Packard on June 23 will announce that it is joining a growing group of data storage providers by adding its own brand of deduplication software to two new storage arrays.The company will introduce the new disk-based backup systems with data deduplication technology that increases disk utilization by up to 50 times to deliver scalable storage, […]