Chris Preimesberger

LAS VEGAS-It was amazing to discover that most of the big-brand portable computer makers on April 1 decided to skip out on the world’s largest event dedicated to wireless gadgets: CTIA Wireless 2009, here at the Convention Center.That’s correct. Recessionary budget cuts left major-league names such as Dell, Lenovo, MSI, Acer, Asus, Hewlett-Packard and even […]

LAS VEGAS-There’s plenty of news and new products to interest approximately 30,000 attendees on the opening day of the CTIA Wireless show here at the Las Vegas Convention Center. Not only did Research In Motion officially unveil its BlackBerry App World “on-device” store, a formidable-looking new competitor to Apple’s iTunes online music, video and application […]

There’s been a Cone of Silence for a week now around the impending IBM acquisition of Sun Microsystems. When such a mystery takes place, people get nervous. We’re just so used to things happening now and in real time that we often take our eyes off the prize far too quickly. Well, this deal just […]

SANTA CLARA, Calif.-The promise of cloud computing is pretty darn alluring. You can ostensibly get your workload done everyday and not need to buy software or hardware; capital expenses start shrinking; maintenance and head count costs are lower; scalability is there if you need it; and so forth.However, as in journalism, there are two sides […]

You never know what’s going to tickle the readers’ fancies here at eWEEK. Take today, for example: The Station put together a slide show on new products in the solid-state storage sector, and wowsie, did that one explode off the blocks (an ancient track & field analogy). The news desks in New York and San […]

Western Digital, the second-largest hard disk drive maker in the world behind Seagate Technology, said March 30 it had acquired neighboring SiliconSystems for $65 million in cash. WD is located in Lake Forest, Calif., only a few miles from SiliconSystems’ headquarters in Aliso Viejo, Calif.SiliconSystems, founded in 2002, is a major supplier of embedded SSDs […]

Solid-State Disks Invading Storage World by Chris Preimesberger No Title Fusion-io, which is working on handheld-size solid-state storage arrays that the company claims can do the same enterprise-level heavy lifting as conventional rack arrays, has been making a lot of news lately. In February it signed Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak as its chief scientist, and […]

Internet Archive Gets a Place in the Sun (Portable Data Center) No Title Brewster Kahle, founder of the Internet Archive and a longtime digital librarian, demonstrates how big he thinks the Internet is at the launch event of the archive project in Santa Clara, Calif. No Title The Internet Archive is powered by 60 Sun […]

SAN FRANCISCO-Dell had a busy day March 25, launching a flotilla of new products that included five snazzy new midrange storage arrays from its EqualLogic division, three new towers for high-performance workstations and a new server.When Michael Dell announced that his company was acquiring EqualLogic and its second-generation iSCSI storage system for $1.4 billion in […]

So while the legalese continues to be smoothed out, sliced, diced and relegated to memory by IBM lawyers in the upcoming Big Blue acquisition of Sun Microsystems, another angle to the story came out March 24. This is from two excellent Storage Station sources: Apparently only a short time ago, dyed-in-the-wool Sun enemy Hewlett-Packard and […]