Chris Preimesberger

Even as the data storage industry has shown itself to be relatively resilient during the world recession, individual players certainly are not immune to financial trouble.The holding company for Norwegian-based tape storage company Tandberg Data filed for bankruptcy in its home country court on April 24 after it could not cover a loan payment to […]

The Station has been asked a few times from readers about what really went on behind the scenes during the IBM-Sun Microsystems acquisition talks in March and early April. Since we’re not on Sun’s board of directors, nor work at the Wilson Sonsini & Goodrich law firm that was doing the due diligence for IBM, […]

With the April 20 acquisition of Sun Microsystems by Oracle, there is an impending change of guard involving the open-source community and its largest enterprise supporter.Sun has harbored more open-source projects and developers-and had developed a larger outside community-than any other mainstream IT company. Thus, there is a great deal of trepidation about what changes […]

Seven Cheap Storage Devices from Iomega, Cisco, Others by Chris Preimesberger No Title Cisco Systems’ first venture into this market, the Cisco NSS2000, offers the ability to add multiple SATA (Serial ATA) hard drives easily to a network. High-speed networking ports offer enhanced bandwidth. The operating system is incorporated directly into the chassis, allowing users […]

eWEEK is fond of producing slide shows — you know, those click-through picture and/or art-based features that liven up a “list” story. Admittedly, sometimes they appear to be shameless attempts by an online publisher to pile up page views. But look at it this way: It’s just the electronic way of turning pages. In any […]

Who Will Ride the IT M&A Wave Following Oracle-Sun? by Chris Preimesberger IBM-NetApp This one’s been circulating literally for years. But the latest talk now is that IBM may be getting serious about making an offer that CEO Dan Warmenhoven, co-founder Dave Hitz and the NetApp Board of Directors cannot refuse. IBM saved up a […]

EMC’s revenue and profit margin took major hits in the first quarter of 2009, the storage giant reported April 23 in its first-quarter 2009 earnings call.The company reported revenue of $3.15 billion, down 22 percent from the record $4.02 billion it banked in the fourth quarter of 2008 and 9 percent from a year ago. […]

SANTA CLARA, Calif.-All a reporter had to do on the final day of the MySQL 2009 Conference here at the Hyatt Regency was walk up to someone wearing a conference badge, request a minute of their time and ask a simple question: “Oracle good, or Oracle bad for MySQL?”The question was generally met with a […]

Oprah Winfrey has come a long, long way from being an unknown actress in Steven Spielberg’s 1985 feature film “The Color Purple” to exerting worldwide influence on such things as book sales, education, health care, self-help-even presidential elections.Winfrey’s support of Barack Obama for president in 2008 may well have delivered enough votes to decide the […]

Virtualization software market leader VMware has managed to stay ahead of a stubborn worldwide recession, reporting in an earnings call April 22 an increase of 7 percent in its overall revenues and a 62 percent increase in net income for the first quarter of 2009.VMware, 84 percent of which is owned by storage giant EMC, […]