Chris Preimesberger

The Station believes that, in the wake of The Great Chuck Hollis Zero-Capacity Incident of 2008 (see this item directly below), we must now present a real news item in order to assure our readers that what we have is the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. Terremark Worldwide, a large provider […]

Oh, that Chuck Hollis, Vice President of Technology Alliances over at EMC, is a trickster, he is. In his most recent blog item, he spells out a bunch of “potential” upcoming EMC announcements which talk about a new “zero-capacity” storage angle that caught my eye. And we’re sure that The Station wasn’t the only one […]

LAS VEGAS — There are two large IT conferences going on this week in this City of Constant Visitation, held under tranquil blue Nevada skies. Both are international, but they’re very different: One is huge, well-established, and fancy-schmancy; the other is younger, smaller, not nearly as fancy, but among the fastest-growing conferences of its kind […]

LAS VEGAS-Microsoft is in the process of building the industry’s first container-based data center. Microsoft first said a year ago that it was considering the idea, and now the concept is coming to fruition, Michael Manos, Microsoft’s senior director of Data Center Services, said April 1 in a keynote address at the AFCOM Data Center […]

Hewlett-Packard announced March 31 that it will acquire privately held enterprise content management software maker Tower Software in a cash transaction. The deal will give HP all the outstanding shares of the company in exchange for $3.39 (Aus.) per share. No other financial details were made available.Tower, based in Canberra, Australia, but fielding about 240 […]

Sun Microsystems March 26 filed a third lawsuit in federal court that extends the patent infringement charges to the storage management technology NetApp acquired from Onaro in January. Other than a few candid comments in blogs and interviews by company executives on both sides, the new lawsuit was the first official public move by either […]

SANTA CLARA, Calif.-While smaller, new-generation companies such as Arsenal (now with IBM), Berkeley Data Systems (now with EMC), Carbonite and others have tended to hog the headlines in the midmarket online data storage space, a couple of relative senior citizens have quietly added their own brands to this burgeoning market.Iron Mountain, established in 1951 to […]

IBM and Sun Microsystems, rivals when it comes to selling open-standards enterprise storage systems, have found a patch of common ground on which to collaborate in a re-emerging sector of data storage: mainframes.Four months after the two tech giants agreed on a proof-of-concept deal for Sun’s OpenSolaris operating system to be optimized for use on […]

A new research study on data center capacity and energy efficiency has found that ever-increasing power and cooling costs are affecting the economics of IT more profoundly than many industry observers had thought.The study, conducted by the Uptime Institute in Santa Fe, N.M., represented the views of 311 enterprise data center managers. The data was […]

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.-It was a nervous time on March 20 for 32 CEOs and their fledgling companies at Under the Radar, an annual new-company showcase for venture capitalists held here at Microsoft’s Silicon Valley campus.This was their big chance to impress a large group of potential new investors and reassure their original financial backers that […]

NComputing has sold more than 600,000 virtual desktops in the last three years, offering an innovative way to harness what it calls “the untapped power of existing PCs.” The 5-year-old NComputing provides the software that creates a virtual desktop environment on any Windows- or Linux-based computer. The NComputing solution differs from competitors Citrix Systems, Microsoft […]

All right, all right, all right … We get the message! We can’t continue going a week between blog items here. Truthfully, thanks to all of you who’ve sent e-mails and phoned to ask why The Station has been putting up only about one item per week here lately. All we can say is that, […]