Chris Preimesberger

Device makers Toshiba and Fujitsu said May 2 that they have finalized details on an agreement for Toshiba to take over Fujitsu’s multinational hard-drive design and manufacturing businesses.Financial details of Toshiba’s buyout were not disclosed by either company.The combination of the two companies’ 2.5-inch hard-drive market sales figures would immediately make it the largest such […]

Competition in the television- and movie-fueled online video streaming business is getting more and more intense. And the personal involvements of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs and Google CEO Eric Schmidt in this burgeoning market complicate the story to the point where it resembles a made-for-TV movie.There’s a premium on high-end TV and movie content, and […]

If you don’t want to have to deal with daily enterprise backup anymore, there’s a new alternative now available: Symantec’s getting into the managed storage service act. The Cupertino, Calif.-based company on April 30 launched its new Managed Backup Services, which provides management of NetBackup backup and recovery operations through a combination of local management–on-site […]

It’s not enterprise-type storage by any means, but Seagate Technology’s new Replica direct-attached desktop hard drive for desktops, laptops or netbook computers will probably see a lot of action in corporate settings.The Seagate Replica, launched April 27, automatically backs up documents, databases, graphics and other content using a double-USB connection. It comes on as soon […]

We don’t often report on personnel moves here at The Station, but Hewlett-Packard’s April 29 announcement that it has recruited EMC Storage Division President David Donatelli to be its new EVP for Enterprise Servers, Storage and Networking is major news. Donatelli, who starts May 5, will take over a $19.4 billion division. The business unit […]

Hitachi Data Systems has partnered with storage optimization software provider Aptare in an initiative that modernizes its software portfolio.HDS said April 28 that it has expanded its management software portfolio with three new offerings: the Hitachi Virtual Server Reporter, supplied by Aptare; Hitachi IT Operations Analyzer, and the Hitachi Storage Command Portal.The new software options […]

Conventional spinning disk hard drives, thanks to perpendicular magnetic recording technology that enables them to store about 10 times more data than in previous iterations, are closing in on a 1TB-per-platter capacity.NAND flash disks also keep evolving-and perhaps even more quickly. Consumers now can buy 64GB flash thumb drives, and the 128GB models aren’t far […]

Sun Microsystems, in the process of becoming the property of Oracle by the end of summer 2009, reported its quarterly earnings April 28. To the surprise of few industry observers, the financial health of the company and the general trend of the numbers remain grim.However, although Sun reported a GAAP (Generally Accepted Accounting Principles)-based loss […]

Speaking last week to the American Chamber of Commerce in Cairo, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer was asked his take on last week’s announcement that Oracle will acquire Sun Microsystems for $7.4 billion. Ballmer, quoted by Reuters, strangely answered, “I have no idea why a software company would buy a hardware company,” adding that Microsoft doesn’t […]

Sun Microsystems received some welcome news April 27 when a jury in Marshall, Texas, turned down a complicated 3-year-old patent infringement and trade secrets lawsuit brought by software development company Versata.Versata, formerly called Trilogy Software, had sought more than $100 million in damages from Sun for alleged patent infringement, breach of contract, interference with an […]