Chris Preimesberger

HANNOVER, Germany—One of the truly charming features that many old European cities have is a central square, the place—usually near a basilica—where people congregate, socialize, read, get some sun or do business. Italy’s piazzas are a perfect example (“piazza” means “broad street”). CeBIT, which stands for Center of Business Information Technology, is the largest IT […]

Clustered storage provider Isilon Systems, which supplies fast network-attached storage systems for a list of movie studios and television stations that produce digital films, on March 10 launched a significant expansion of its mainline storage arrays.Isilon released new versions of its S-Series and NL-Series storage systems and unveiled an addition to its X-Series product line.With […]

Keeping an enterprise IT system running on a daily basis certainly has its multiple challenges. Ensuring that the enterprise can rebound quickly and resume business in the event of a natural disaster, power outage, terrorist or hacker attack, or other unplanned incident is equally important in this day of real-time Internet business.But there’s a new […]

Disk storage maker Seagate Technology and microprocessor provider Advanced Micro Devices March 9 staged the world’s first public demonstration of next-generation high-speed data transfer-Serial ATA at 6G bps-at the Everything Channel XChange Conference in New Orleans.The demonstration featured two Seagate SATA disk drives, one a Barracuda 7200.12 3G-bps hard drive and the other a prototype […]

Pillar Data Systems, which makes highly virtualized storage architecture that runs on commodity servers, revealed March 9 that it will be joining the ranks of network storage providers that are moving to solid-state flash memory.EMC, Dell, Sun Microsystems and newcomer Fusion-io are among the few companies that currently offer either built-in or optional SSDs in […]

The worldwide recession, which has been crunching other sectors of IT for months, is finally beginning to crack into the data storage market. Research company IDC revealed in its quarterly disk storage systems report March 6 that total disk storage systems market revenues declined 5.9 percent from 2008, totaling $7.3 billion. Weakness in server systems […]

HANNOVER, Germany — California CIO Teri Takai might as well be running the IT operation for an entire country. After being named to her position in January 2008 by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, Takai has taken a year to evaluate the state of the state’s IT structure. She is now starting to make decisions on a […]

HANNOVER, Germany — Companies such as Samsung, SanDisk and Western Digital have been the usual suspects who leap-frog each other every few months as capacities continue to improve in flash memory drives. However, at least for the time being, there is a new current champion.Flash memory maker A-DATA Technology March 4 took the world lead […]

CeBIT 2009 Unfolds as a Diminished, Yet Still Imposing Tech Event by Chris Preimesberger in Hannover, Germany No Title It was a gray, foggy, chilly day March 2 as the last of the booth-builders finished their preparations for CeBIT. The fairgrounds use about 2 million square feet of space for this, the largest IT show […]

HANNOVER, Germany-Fusion-io, which makes enterprise solid-state storage arrays and recently signed Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak as its chief scientist, announced an OEM deal here March 3 with Hewlett-Packard to provide the huge systems company with its new StorageWorks IO Accelerator.The IO Accelerator is a NAND flash-based storage adapter based on Fusion-io’s ioMemory technology.Fusion-io’s bread-and-butter product, […]