Chris Preimesberger

Despite industrywide marketing spin espousing politically correct intentions to make data centers more environmentally sound, few IT system managers actually have any specific plans in place. Furthermore, most IT managers give their operations failing grades in reducing energy consumption, a new industry study reported. Lack of funding and operational resources-at least in this year’s budgets-were […]

10 Storage Deduplication Companies That Might Be Acquired by Chris Preimesberger 10 Storage Deduplication CompaniesThat Might Be AcquiredIBM pulled the trigger April 18 and added Diligent Technologies to augment its VTL and mainframe storage products with a powerful deduplication provider. Other vendors are apt to do the same, and these are the companies they’ll be […]

When The Station hears the word “Kingston,” the first thought that comes to mind is the Kingston Trio, who owned the folk music world for a few years in the late 1950s and early ’60s, before the British Invasion changed pop music. (Yours truly interviewed them once for a newspaper feature around 1989.) “Tom Dooley” […]

How hot was the hard disk drive (HDD) market in 2007? Pretty darn sizzling, despite the cooling U.S. economy, according to Southern California-based industry analyst iSuppli. 2007 was indeed a year to remember for HDD makers, with shipments reaching 516 million units, up from 434 million in 2006. Factory revenue rose to $32.8 billion, up […]

Data storage giant EMC is continuing its lengthy hot streak of quarterly financial success, reporting April 23 record first-quarter revenue and double-digit revenue growth across the company.It was EMC’s 19th consecutive quarter of double-digit, year-over-year revenue growth. The 39,000-employee company exceeded analyst revenue estimates by $20 million.EMC’s total revenue for the first quarter of 2008 […]

Data warehousing — remember when that was a hot buzzphrase about seven years ago? — remains a growing sector of IT data storage, and the generally acknowledged market leader continues to be Teradata. For those of you who might not be clear on the definition: A data warehouse is a repository of an organization’s electronically […]

Western Digital, the world’s second-largest disk drive maker behind Seagate Technology, revealed April 21 that it has started shipping its fastest hard drive yet for PCs and Macs: the VelociRaptor. The 2.5-inch VelociRaptor SATA (serial ATA) drive runs at 10,000 RPM and can hold up to 300GB of data–35 percent faster and double the capacity […]

Jon Toigo, CEO of Toigo Partners, writes a cliche-busting, skeptical, yet thoughtful storage blog. It’s colorfully named DrunkenData.com. Toigo, who eschews the term “analyst,” is a popular speaker, journalist, book author and consultant, and his views, while sometimes a little bombastic, are well respected. Today he’s in the process of trying to get his arms […]

It took about four years of research and development, but it looks like the Mozilla developers have finally plugged most of the memory leaks that were irritating some users of the Firefox browser. Browsers, to be sure, are I/O and memory suckers. They do a heck of a lot of very fast work scouring the […]

STANFORD, Calif.-Several large Internet service providers-namely Comcast Communications, AT&T, Time Warner and Verizon-were verbally battered April 17 by private citizens, free-Internet access advocates and representatives of radio stations and small ISPs (Internet service providers) at a special public hearing before the Federal Communications Commission.The five-member FCC, in a session hosted by the Stanford Law School […]

IBM finally pulled the trigger April 18 and bought a storage company with powerful de-duplication software: privately held Diligent Technologies.Terms of the acquisition were not disclosed by either company, but a storage analyst who asked not to be named told eWEEK the cash price was in the $200 million range.Diligent, headquartered in Framingham, Mass., with […]

Citrix Systems gave eWEEK a preview of its beta-level Citrix XenDesktop April 16, and if lack of latency in mouse movement relative to application performance is a key indicator of success, then this new product has made big-time progress toward solving that nagging problem.Latency between mouse movement and action on the screen-which often can be […]