Chris Preimesberger

Spring cleaning — taking a long, hard look at your possessions to weed out the junk, so as to free up living space — is a longtime tradition in many cultures. Since we spend a good portion of our lives on computers, it also makes good sense to “spring clean” personal desktop/laptop systems, as well […]

Of course it’s easy to say it now, and The Station will accept any email guff on this topic in retrospect: There was no way in heck that Microsoft was ever going to corral Yahoo — from Day One. We never wrote here about it, but we told a number of people, and you all […]

Internet hosting provider Rackspace, of San Antonio, Texas, on May 5 launched its own Web-based storage service — dubbed CloudFS — to beta users through its “cloud” computing division, Mosso. The news comes on the heels of the company’s filing April 28 with the Securities & Exchange Commission for its initial public offering. The company […]

A couple of hot “disruptive” data storage companies — whose technologies are revolutionary yet complementary — have joined forces and will commingle their wares. Moonwalk, an Australian developer of data management and protection software, and U.S.-based Caringo have created a joint, single-tier storage package using Caringo’s CAStor clustered architecture and Moonwalk’s middlewareless data management system. […]

ExaGrid, a company sometimes overlooked due to the larger storage players but which has its own powerful deduplication secret sauce, is offering a free eSeminar tomorrow, April 30, to explain a new way to add “dedupe” to your own iSCSI storage array. The eSeminar, which is produced in coordination with our publisher, Ziff Davis Enterprise, […]

It used to be that journalists like The Station did our research, talked to a few sources, then wrote and filed our stories — and that pretty much was the end of our relationship with that particular story. We’d simply move on to the next assignment. Not so any more! Thanks to useful new Web […]

Sun Microsystems on April 29 showed that it continues to reinvent itself in its chosen open-source image by introducing new software development tools and professional storage services for the open-source storage developer community.The company has identified what it sees as a “radical transformation to the open storage era,” since it contends that more and more […]

IBM, which acquired Arsenal Digital Solutions’ online data storage services in December 2007, is beginning to integrate the company’s second-generation “cloud computing” technology into its own massive product portfolio.In a pair of announcements April 28, IBM said it has expanded its Express Advantage Portfolio for midsize businesses to include a new set of information protection […]

VMware took issue with a story The Station filed earlier this eWEEK, claiming that Citrix isn’t telling the whole truth about its new XenDesktop. In other words, VMware claims Citrix isn’t being forthright in positioning the new desktop to the media and the general public, because there are other items that must be bought and […]

The Station never fails to be amazed at the amount of money being made throughout this sector. EMC on Wednesday, April 23, turned in a report card showing a cool $3 billion in quarterly revenue — a good deal of profit included. Hewlett-Packard’s Enterprise Storage and Servers division reported Q1 revenue of $4.8 billion, up […]

We’ve all been there at one time or another-and if you haven’t, you will be at some point: Your computer seizes up, the Blue Screen of Death rears its ugly head and your computer passes away into the night, taking all that data and functionality with it.We’re talking about the life cycle of the typical […]

EMC swallows Avamar in November 2006. IBM acquires Diligent a few weeks ago. More of this is bound to happen, believe me. Deduplication, virtualization layers and e-discovery/compliance software comprise the three hottest buying trends in data storage right now. They are all must-have additions to older systems, and some of them are being built right […]