Chris Preimesberger

Storage area network-maker Compellent’s annual C-Drive Conference in Minneapolis is always a first-class event. The Station moderated a panel discussion there last year and was all set to go again this time until a family health issue came up. Sigh. Maybe next year. At its May 2009 conference, Compellent did some polling of attendees during […]

Any time a company proves it can save seven figures’ worth of cash for a client, that’s good news. According to the city of Minneapolis, Unisys’ data center outsourcing service has saved it $18 million—and improved its services to taxpayers—over the last five years. Now those are serious bucks. Minneapolis used to run its own […]

Cloud storage startup ParaScale and open-source content management provider Alfresco Software announced June 17 that they have teamed up to produce an integrated cloud-based enterprise content management package that utilizes both companies’ software on the same hardware.The two companies are emphasizing the ability of this new architecture to “scale out” for high-demand workloads, ParaScale said. […]

Eight Things to Consider Before Moving Your Storage Backup to the Cloud by Chris Preimesberger Align Your Business Resiliency Expectations with the Providers Capabilities Be sure to vet the experience curve and capability breadth of vendors. Do they offer heterogeneous support for all platforms and applications? How do you define roles/responsibilities? Do they offer service-level […]

Data storage now is all about efficiency: getting the most out of existing systems by using all available capacity and avoiding storage bloat that can be both costly and ineffective.Hitachi Data Systems, which has been quiet on the new-products front lately, on June 17 introduced some new features for its Universal Storage Platform and Adaptable […]

If you’ve ever wanted to watch a hard drive crash in your hands — but not lose any of your stuff — then read on. DriveSavers Data Recovery has launched DriveSaver, a free application for the iPhone dedicated to educating users about protecting digital data. The company claims that DriveSaver is the first iPhone application […]

A lot of people in the data storage world are watching the skirmish between EMC and NetApp as they contest who is going to acquire deduplication specialist Data Domain.The prevailing wisdom is that EMC and NetApp both want to acquire Data Domain for its highly regarded, midrange-market storage deduplication appliances, which are fast, cost-effective and […]

Digital video quality is getting richer all the time, as are some lucky producers who hit the jackpot with movies that are box-office smashes.As video continues to be rendered with more multiple images and as more bits per second are jammed onto disks, storage and accurate recall of all that data becomes an increasingly strategic […]

IBM has been trying to get its Big Blue arms around cloud computing for a while, perhaps because the cloud is one of the few things in IT that IBM didn’t help invent.The vision from Armonk, N.Y., was fuzzy for a couple of years, but now the glasses are on and the focus appears to […]

The board of directors of storage systems maker Data Domain has voted to reject enterprise storage giant EMC’s unsolicited offer to acquire it for $1.8 billion in cash, the company said June 15. The board accepted a revised offer of $1.9 billion in cash and stock from NetApp on June 3 and intends to stick […]