Chris Preimesberger

It was bound to happen, and it turned out to be sooner rather than later. Pliant Technology officially launched itself as a privately held company Feb. 19, becoming the first enterprise vendor to focus its complete attention on producing data storage systems that use solid-state flash memory instead of conventional disk drives.Solid-state flash drives use […]

Google on Feb. 13 released a new software development kit for its open-source Android mobile operating system.This marks the first update of the SDK since the original version was launched in November 2007. “On behalf of the entire Android team, I’m happy to let you know that an updated version of the Android SDK-we’re calling […]

10 Factors That Define an Energy-Efficient Data Center 10 Factors That Define an Energy-Efficient Data Center – 1 A “green” data center is one in which the lighting/cooling, mechanical, electrical and computer systems are designed for maximum energy efficiency and minimum environmental impact. 10 Factors That Define an Energy-Efficient Data Center – 2 A green […]

The Station is often asked: “Where do you get all the ideas for your articles?” Truth be told — and the truth is always written here, mind you — that not all the stories we write are originally conceived by the bylined person. Knowing this must disappoint some readers, but we’re not afraid to report […]

Virtualization in the data center has broken out of the experimental and testing stage in many IT shops, but there are still a great many large-enterprise CIOs who are not completely sold on using it in daily production.New research reported Feb. 12 that worldwide, 54 percent of large enterprises rate management of their virtual server […]

IBM has made its first storage product news since last October by announcing Feb. 12 a wide range of new software and hardware offerings for large enterprises and for small and midsize businesses.The key item here is that IBM is now using 1TB drives in its storage arrays, following similar moves by Network Appliance, EMC, […]

One of Salesforce.com’s key North American CRM servers, NA5, was up and down for most of the business day Feb. 11 following a software upgrade, a Salesforce customer who asked to remain anonymous told eWEEK. The unstable server caused some havoc in an unspecified number of customers’ accounts, the customer said.The software upgrade was installed […]

It could be that some of you don’t know The Station’s full involvement in daily journalism. In addition to covering storage, the data center, virtualization and other swell topics for eWEEK, we have had a fun side job since the Reagan Administration covering NCAA hoops for The Associated Press. Most of the time, this means […]

Hope you saw The Station’s exclusive interview with Dell CEO Michael Dell (why doesn’t anyone ever call him Mike?) and Global Storage Director Praveen Asthana on eWEEK’s main section the other day. Good, interesting, valuable points of view, plus a few funny analogies. If you’d rather read it on paper, it’ll be featured prominently in […]

Outside of See’s Candies, FTD and Victoria ‘s Secret, perhaps no other company is more affiliated with Valentine’s Day than 1-800-FLOWERS, whose telephone-order service was founded way back in 1976. The Long Island-based company’s Web site, 1-800-FLOWERS.com, was one of the true pioneers of the Internet, going online in 1992-before Mosaic/Netscape’s graphical browsers were available-and […]

FLAG Telecom, owner and operator of several thousand miles of fiber-optic cable in the Middle East, is busily laying new undersea cable to replace lines that were cut in two places in the Mediterranean Sea near Alexandria on Jan. 30 and in a third location two days later in the Persian Gulf.Two more cuts were […]

Here’s a pop quiz: Which segment of Dell’s hardware business-PCs, servers or storage systems-has grown the fastest over the last two years? If you said storage systems, you are correct. And as it looks toward the future, the company known the world over for building personal computers and high-quality application servers for the past two […]