Chris Preimesberger

The Southern California wildfires, which have forced more than half a million people to evacuate their homes in the last several days, have been a proving ground for the efficiency of emergency communication services. People in the fires path have been relying on everyday communication services such as VOIP (voice over IP) and cell phones […]

IBM on Oct. 24 announced that it will acquire NovusCG, a storage-focused IT software and services company based in Manassas, Va. As is common in transactions involving privately held companies, financial terms were not disclosed. NovusCG (Novus Consulting Group) was founded in 2000 and has about 100 employees. The company uses its own professional services […]

IBM is rolling out an extensive refresh of its main storage product lines. Big Blue Oct. 23 introduced a new release for its flagship enterprise disk storage system, new and enhanced storage virtualization products for disk and tape storage, and improvements to lower-end disk and tape storage packages for small and midsize businesses. “This is […]

A gleaming new state-of-the-art data center, the Schneider Electric Technology Center in St. Louis, officially will turn on the current this evening (Oct. 23), with the blessings of the Green Grid Consortium and the Environmental Protection Agency’s Energy Star program. Green Grid representative John Tuccillo, Andrew Fanara of the Energy Star program and Andy Karsnar, […]

The National League champion Colorado Rockies ticket sales Web site is back up and running and briskly dealing World Series seats after an external malicious attack shut down the system. “We sold more than 50,000 tickets today over 2½ hours,” Rockies Media Relations Manager Jay Alves told eWEEK. The Rockies are limiting sales to four […]

Maybe the term “flashtops”—which The Station coined more than a year ago—will finally catch on now. I expect that when these ultra-thin (three-quarter-inch thick), ultra-light (2 pounds) and power-saving solid-state notebook PCs start selling in volume, the term will become commonly used. And since the prices are just beginning to come down, it looks as […]

There’s nothing like making a phone call, listening to a favorite MP3, then checking your company’s storage capacity — all on the same handheld unit. In this case, it’s an iPhone. Aptare’s personable CEO, Rick Clark, showed The Station one of the more interesting demos at this week’s Storage Networking World conference in Dallas. Aptare, […]

Fujitsu Computer Systems is the latest top-tier vendor to enter the low-end storage wars by introducing a new storage area network for that mass market. The Sunnyvale, Calif., company’s dual-controller-based Eternus 2000 SAN, launched Oct. 17 at Storage Networking World in Dallas, is targeted at small and midsize data centers that struggle with cost and […]

I don’t know how in the world she expected to get away with something like this, since the paper and digital trail is so well-policed, but she did it anyway. Why it took four years to track down is another question. The San Francisco Chronicle reported Oct. 18 that the former travel manager for storage […]

DALLAS—Microsoft is on course to improve its share of the storage market that has long been dominated by EMC, Hewlett-Packard, NetApp and others, said Ted Kummert, corporate vice president of Microsofts Data and Storage Platform Division, speaking Oct. 17 at Storage Networking World here. Microsoft has already proved itself as the “general platform for all […]

It’s hardly a scientific study, but there may be something to this. Rick Villars, esteemed veteran storage analyst over at IDC, has been polling people informally to ask how much disk storage they have at home. He’s talking spinning disk storage–no Tivos, optical disks or tape. Things that would count here: desktops, laptops, adjunct storage […]

The Storage Networking Industry Association, host of this week’s Storage Networking World conference in Dallas, has revealed its 2008 Board of Directors as voted upon by its membership. “As we celebrate the SNIA’s 10-year anniversary and an expansion of our mission and vision to empower organizations in the management of information, we have established a […]