Chris Preimesberger

The Station keeps hearing rumors that IBM–which desperately needs to add some second-generation storage and data recovery software to replace its own aging offerings–is looking at a few leading-edge companies right now with the idea of acquiring one of them. Instant Web 2.0 credibility is the goal! Big Blue, which bought online backup and archive […]

The Station gets letters–well, e-mails–all day long. Every few minutes, in fact. Some good, some not. All are read, eventually. Here’s one a bit off the beaten path of storage, but saucy on its own. Chris Kooluris of Ketchum PR, on behalf of Geek Squad, writes: “Not even the Geneva Convention can save us from […]

Intel and Micron Technology May 29 announced that their joint venture R&D project will skip the “4x” generation of process technologies for their NAND flash development and will jump from 52 to 34 nanometers. The two companies will use this technology to produce a 32-gigabit (throughput), 4GB-capacity flash chip that can fit in a standard […]

Companies generally play it close to the vest when it comes to talking about numbers of products sold. Market-share reports are one thing, but actual sales figures are not commonly available. Not Sun Microsystems, however. Today, May 28, Sun will announce what it calls “a significant milestone in the IT industry”: The delivery of the […]

EMC announced May 27 that it has begun shipping a new middleware bundle designed to simplify data backup and recovery on the two most ubiquitous business servers in the world-Microsoft Exchange Server and SQL Server-when they are deployed on the VMware platform.The bundle includes backup/recovery support for the new EMC Clariion AX4; backup and recovery […]

The invitation looked interesting enough: U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice was bringing a guest, U.K. Foreign Minister David Miliband, to Silicon Valley to visit Bloom Energy in the morning and the Google headquarters on Amphitheater Parkway in the afternoon. So The Station packed up laptop, camera, videocam, notebook and voice recorder and took the […]

SANTA CLARA, Calif.-DreamWorks, the maker of computer-generated movies that has produced such hit films as “Shrek,” “Madagascar” and “Bee Movie,” knows what it’s talking about when the topic is high-performance computing.Senior Technologist Skottie Miller, who’s been with DreamWorks for nine years after serving seven years at Disney’s animation studio, told the audience at the Platform […]

SANTA CLARA, Calif.-A lot of people don’t know this, but Microsoft, which got rich producing PC operating systems and applications, has been investing heavily in research and development in high-performance computing for about the last eight years.In fact, the world’s largest software company currently employs hundreds of engineers whose sole job it is to conceptualize […]

SANTA CLARA, Calif.-IT’s high-performance computing sector compares nicely with NASA. Many of the innovations of daily life we now take for granted-such as satellite television, Velcro, laser pointers and instant fruit drinks-originated or were commercialized through NASA and reside among NASA’s 6,300 patents. Similarly, HPC is the innovation engine of enterprise IT. High-performance disk drives, […]

Storage provider NetApp on May 21 reported financial results and overall growth for the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2008 that out-performed the rest of the sector in general.NetApp’s revenues for the fourth fiscal quarter were $938 million, an increase of 17 percent compared with revenues of $801 million for the same period a year […]

LAS VEGAS — There was a modicum of news May 19 on Day 1 of EMC World here at Mandalay Bay resort: some standard new-products, an OEM announcement and a denial that one of the host company’s divisions was going to be spun off. That’s right, VMware will remain under the ownership of EMC. So […]