Chris Preimesberger

Netezza (pronounced Net-teeza), which makes analytics appliances for data centers and has a strong reputation in the data warehousing world, made a simple product announcement earlier this week. Now the company is suddenly a hot possibility for a buyout. The rumored suitor? Oracle–one of its biggest competitors. The company, based in Framingham, Mass., announced that […]

Acronis on Jan. 9 introduced new backup and recovery software specifically designed for databases, including the three most widely-used ones: SQL Server, Oracle and MS Exchange. The first shipments will be made in the United States, with Europe and Asia/Pacific Rim releases later this quarter, a company spokesperson said. The new software, called Acronis Recovery, […]

If you’re finding our eWEEK site kind of kloodgy today, well, join the club. You might see gaping holes where artwork would normally be found; articles might be doubled up on certain pages; type and art might bump up against each other; and some of the letter spacing and punctuation in articles themselves might be […]

In the open-source world, downloading free operating system software is commonplace. Literally hundreds of versions of Linux, Sun Microsystems’ OpenSolaris and older systems such as FreeBSD are readily available on demand, if one knows where to find them. And in this brave new Google-enriched world, it simply isn’t difficult to find anything anymore. But in […]

With Macworld about to invigorate San Francisco’s venerable Moscone Center next week, it’s timely to report some news on the data storage front for Mac Xserve and Mac Pro users. Nexsan, which describes itself as a “provider of energy-efficient, disk-based storage systems designed for the long-term storage of information,” today unveiled its new SATABeast Xi, […]

We write a lot about ways to save electrical power in the data center and help the environment, but it’s always nice to see real results. Congratulations, 365 Main of San Francisco! The big colocation service provider—which has been in an expansion mode for months—announced today that it decreased energy use and saved a whopping […]

Partner/competitors Dell and EMC seem to be shadowing each other now that EqualLogic’s fancy new iSCSI product line will be coming out soon under the Dell label and, in the process, stepping on some of EMC’s toes. You see, Dell and EMC have had a kind of strained relationship over a span of several years, […]

LA HONDA, Calif.—Naturally, eBay data mining engineer Dave Worthington and his wife, Carolyn, dread weather-related power outages in their sparsely populated village in the Santa Cruz Mountains, about 1,500 feet above Silicon Valley here on the San Francisco Peninsula. Worthington and his family—along with a record 884,000 other Pacific Gas & Electric customers in the […]

NetApp joined a growing group of large storage system makers in purchasing next-generation technology Jan. 3 when it announced it will acquire Onaro, a privately owned storage management company headquartered in Boston. Financial terms were not made available. In recent days, IBM acquired Israel-based storage provider XIV and Dell bought EqualLogic in major storage sector […]

Not only did IBM land an up-and-coming storage technology company with its acquisition of Israel-based XIV on Jan. 2, but it also acquired one of the leading storage system architects in the world. Big Blue acquired the privately held storage technology company [pronounced X-I-V] based in Tel Aviv for a reported $300 million, although IBM […]

A year and 16 days after the institution of the revised Federal Rules of Civil Procedure on Dec. 1, 2006, about two-thirds of U.S. businesses remain unprepared to meet strict court requirements for the discovery and handling of electronic evidence, according to a data storage researcher. The new regulations, ordered by the U.S. Supreme Court […]

It sounds kind of strange, but The Station has been doing so much reporting lately that we’re not getting enough writing done. We are so loaded with notes, taped interviews, emails, and information on disks and in personal brain memory that an information explosion is about to take place. On Monday, The Station caught the […]