Chris Preimesberger

LAS VEGAS — VMware CTO Steve Herrod will explain in a keynote address at EMC World May 19 that while most organizations originally set out to utilize virtualization technologies in their IT systems to consolidate servers and save power draw, virtualization almost invariably becomes a strategic asset for the organization.“What we’ve seen is that most […]

LAS VEGAS-Data warehouse appliance vendor Netezza May 20 will announce its biggest business partnership to date, an OEM agreement with EMC, the world’s largest storage infrastructure company.Netezza will include EMC’s Clariion network storage in its data warehouse appliance as part of the OEM deal to deliver new appliance-based packages designed to simplify the aggregation of […]

LAS VEGAS — Data storage infrastructure giant EMC introduced a bevy of new software and hardware backup products for both enterprise and the midmarket May 19 on the opening day of its semi-annual users’ conference, EMC World, here at the Mandalay Bay resort. The company showed off three new disk libraries based on its partnership […]

PHNS, a Texas-based IT and business process service provider specializing in the health care industry, on May 13 said it will acquire privately held AmeriVault, a respected provider of remote online data backup, off-site recovery, e-mail archiving and data life-cycle services. PHNS provides IT services for hospitals, other health care providers and businesses. Details of […]

The Station will be heading to Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas next week for EMC World, always one of the biggest and newsiest storage tech conferences of the year. You read it here first: —Cisco Systems is moving into the SAN fabric world big time. The company will be demonstrating some new forthcoming features for […]

Hewlett-Packard is making a major play to become the world’s No.1 go-to shop for building a next-generation data center. HP is spending a tremendous amount of cash ($13.9 billion) on its acquisition of Electronic Data Systems in order to own that company’s world-leading IT outsourcing services, but the whole deal was set up a few […]

Industry analysts contacted by eWEEK generally say they believe that Hewlett-Packard’s forthcoming $13.9 billion acquisition of Electronic Data Systems-announced officially on May 13-is a good move for both companies, although there will be the usual integration snafus over vendor neutrality issues, business lines, culture shock and layoffs.Analysts have also said it is a good move […]

Industry sources have confirmed to eWEEK that Hewlett-Packard will indeed acquire Electronic Data Systems for about $13 billion in a transaction that undoubtedly will make folks at IBM a bit nervous. The announcement may come as early as May 14, industry sources said. HP acknowledged the news first earlier today. “There can be no assurances […]

Industry sources have confirmed to eWEEK that Hewlett-Packard will acquire Electronic Data Systems for about $13 billion.The announcement may come as early as May 14, the source told eWEEK. HP acknowledged the news first earlier May 12.“There can be no assurances that an agreement will be reached or that a transaction will be consummated,” HP […]

MINNEAPOLIS-Bill Snow and Ed Eades are a couple of IT managers with very different businesses and data center setups. But they are totally in sync on at least one thing: Their data recovery systems are of supreme importance, and nothing is left to chance. Both men took part in an hour-long panel discussion before a […]

MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. — The Station, in town to moderate a panel discussion at the Compellent C-Drive conference, took a tour of the old downtown yesterday. Driving by the corner First Avenue night club, he could almost hear Prince, the Replacements, and Husker Du performing before packed audiences. He imagined Mary Tyler Moore joyously throwing her […]

Storage analyst Matt Bryson of Avian Securities reported May 7 that Western Digital is gaining further share in the notebook market at the expense of Japanese vendors — to the tune of a half-million drives. “This practice fits with WD’s past willingness to give up some gross margin points in return for gains at the […]