Chris Preimesberger

Sun Microsystems will be announcing some new high-performance computing products and software/services packages at the Supercomputing 2007 conference, Nov 10-16 in Reno, Nev. A Sun source told The Station that the announcements will have to do with HPC clusters, networking and the path to petascale computing. This shouldn’t surprise too many people in the know; […]

Here are two bits of advice to all you nice public relations folks who call in to The Station: 1) The Station prefers email. 2) When you have a client who wants to comment upon other news within a particular IT sector, please make sure the company spokesperson has something to say. A competing e-discovery […]

Data protection and storage provider Iron Mountain announced Oct. 31 plans to acquire Stratify, a provider of advanced electronic discovery services for the legal market, for approximately $158 million in cash, filling a need in its product line. For several years, Stratify has provided in-depth discovery and data investigation software for Am Law 200 law […]

The Station just got back from an eye-opening sit-down interview in Sunnyvale with NetApp CEO Dan Warmenhoven. Warmenhoven, finishing his 13th year as CEO at the company (an eternity in some circles), is a polished, veteran exec who offered some keen insight into his company’s place in the market, the competition, trends in the storage […]

Hewlett-Packard Oct. 29 joined the ranks of the storage “keymasters” by introducing a new data center security appliance that centralizes control of a companys key management and encryption. The announcement was made at Storage Networking World/Europe in Frankfurt, Germany. The HP StorageWorks Secure Key Manager consolidates key management for encryption devices deployed throughout enterprise and […]

FalconStor is like a great supporting actor in a movie — one who helps set the scene and tell the story, but who modestly eschews the limelight and graciously lets the leading actors take most of the applause. FalconStor, which specializes in continuous data protection software, deduplication and VTLs (virtual tape libraries), has been a […]

Sun Microsystems Oct. 29 fired two more legal shots at Network Appliance in the form of a pair of additional countersuits in the companies’ two-month-old legal squabble about file system intellectual property. The IT infrastructure giant is also asking to move the venue of the case from Texas to Northern California, where the two companies […]

We all know how hot the data storage business is, and how many companies want “in” on the brisk sales action. But who’da thunk this: Intel — surprise, surprise — will soon be coming out next month with its first storage product offering for the consumer and small business market. Okay, so Intel does makes […]

SAN JOSE, Calif.—New research released at the Microsoft Global Technology Summit here Oct. 25 reported that a high percentage of proprietary business communications are being handled nonchalantly through unsecured channels—such as Web e-mail and personal instant messaging—raising serious concerns about the potential loss of intellectual property. Highly valuable, business-critical documents such as legal contracts, sales […]

Man, it’s been busy around the Station lately. I think I’ve written about 10 stories or blog items in the last few days. Earnings reports, lawsuits, M&As, new products — there is certainly no lack of storage and data center material to tackle. In fact, I was so busy yesterday chasing down a couple of […]

EMCs storage infrastructure juggernaut racked up its 17th consecutive quarter of double-digit top-line growth in its third-quarter earnings report issued Oct. 25. The Hopkinton, Mass.-based company reported its highest all-time third-quarter revenue and net income of $492.9 million, a 74 percent improvement over 2006. Total consolidated revenue for the third quarter of 2007 was $3.3 […]

Fifty days after Network Appliance filed a lawsuit Sept. 5 against Sun Microsystems seeking damages and a permanent injunction, claiming Sun infringed on several patents regarding NetApp’s home-grown WAFL file system, Sun filed a countersuit. NetApp claims Sun’s ZFS (Zettabyte File System), which is included in Sun’s Unix-derived Solaris operating system, is patterned directly after […]