Chris Preimesberger

Over the past 13 years as CEO of Network Appliance, Dan Warmenhoven has overseen the company’s growth from a small startup to one of the key players in the highly competitive data storage market. Warmenhoven recently sat down with eWEEK Senior Writer Chris Preimesberger to talk about NetApp’s past and future. Congratulations on your 13th […]

The Station isn’t exactly stationary this week. We’ve been on the road in Las Vegas at the Gartner Data Center 2007 Conference at the immense MGM Grand. We’ve broken a couple of news stories (“Novell Ships First Real-Time SUSE Linux” and “Sun, IBM Prep OpenSolaris for z System Mainframes”) and heard one or two good […]

LAS VEGAS-IBM and Sun Microsystems are in the final stages of an 18-month-long project to adapt the OpenSolaris operating system to run optimally on Big Blue’s z System mainframes. David Boyes, president and chief technology officer of Sine Nomine Associates, an Ashburn, Va.-based consultancy that handled most of the integration and migration duties, told eWEEK […]

LAS VEGAS—Novell is shipping the first real-time SUSE Linux enterprise data center operating system, SUSE Linux Enterprise Real Time 10. Novell, most recognized for its Linux desktop business, announced SLERT Nov. 27 at the Gartner Data Center Conference here. SLERT is the high-end—and significantly higher-priced—version of Novells open-source real-time operating system for running high-performance, time-sensitive […]

Seanodes, a startup based in Paris, introduced storage software Nov. 20 that enables organizations to make underutilized internal application server storage available for the first time as a virtualized storage pool. Using a new architecture designed for high-performance computing and enterprise environments, Seanodes new Exanodes software identifies unused storage capacity in application servers and puts […]

Seagate Technology’s Recovery Services division is offering a new set of data recovery services for consumers and businesses at 1,400 Staples stores in North America and Hawaii. Staples, the world’s largest office products company, is fronting the services through its in-store EasyTech services staff. The chain began offering the services Nov. 20. Customers can walk […]

Virtual tape libraries (VTLs), which are used to back up an enterprise’s data on a nightly and weekly basis, can be slow-moving virtual slugs a lot of the time. So when Sepaton announced recently that it has launched a VTL that is two to three times faster than the usual suspects made by larger companies, […]

Data protection and storage provider Iron Mountain Nov. 19 announced that it is acquiring privately held Xepa Digital, a specialist in converting analog and outmoded digital audio and video tapes to high resolution digital file formats for archiving and distribution. Iron Mountain did not disclose the acquisition price. It was the second acquisition in a […]

High-end and midrange data storage provider 3PAR went public Nov. 16, announcing that its initial public offering of 7.5 million shares of common stock on the New York Stock Exchange had been priced at $14 per share. 3PARs common stock will be listed under the trading symbol “PAR,” a company spokesperson said. All 7.5 million […]

Seattle-based Isilon Systems, known for its high-end, high-quality clustered storage systems, will announce on Nov. 19 the industry’s first production-ready storage system to scale to more than a petabyte of capacity in a single file system and single volume. This will be the first clustered system to use Hitachi’s new 1TB drives — and that […]

Ubuntu is extremely popular on the desktop, but its made comparatively little progress on servers. Thats about to change. Dell is expected to announce in the first quarter of 2008 that it has certified Ubuntu Linux for its server lines. In an interview with Rick Becker, Dell Product Groups vice president of solutions, Becker said […]

SAN FRANCISCO—Sun Microsystems, joining a growing group of companies that are building their own virtualization software, has launched a new virtualization and management platform designed for the data center of the future. Suns xVM is a Solaris-based version of XenSources Linux-based, open-source hypervisor. The new software package, introduced by CEO Jonathan Schwartz in an OpenWorld […]