Chris Preimesberger

Most of the green IT talk the last couple of years has centered on saving power in data center servers, using smart power supplies, and finding-and utilizing-wasted capacity in storage arrays.Certainly, improvement in these areas are all good for everybody, and the advancements that have been made there are indeed newsworthy. For a look at […]

Top 8 Green IT Highlights of 2008 by Chris Preimesberger No Title If there are two things everybody in IT can agree upon, it’s saving money and saving energy. 2008 was a banner year in green IT, as awareness increased among business owners of the benefits of saving power in the data center—improving the bottom […]

To read the introduction to this Top 10 list, go here: Data Storage 2008: It Was All About Capacity and the Cloud Here are Storage Station blogger and eWEEK Senior Writer Chris Preimesberger’s Top 10 Storage Stories of the year, somewhat in order of importance:Feb. 22: Why We’re Starting to Trust Storage in the CloudOnline […]

IT’s 2008 data storage story centered around three major developments: the steady growth of online backup services, the emergence of private “cloud-type” storage systems for enterprises and continued improvement in the enterprise quality of NAND flash for speedier data access.Another trend involved pricing: Prices came down all over the sector, from high-end EMC, IBM, Hewlett-Packard […]

Dell and EMC, IT systems goliaths that have an intricate storage array marketing relationship, Dec. 9 announced the extension of their global alliance through 2013. Under the previous contract, which centered on EMC’s Clariion product line, the relationship would have ended in 2011.The two companies said they will add the EMC Celerra NX4 storage system, […]

SAN FRANCISCO-It doesn’t have anything called the Sun Cloud Computing platform to demonstrate to potential enterprise clients, but Sun Microsystems appears confident going into 2009 that it can still serve as Cloud Central for companies that want to venture into the vast Internet skies on their own.The company told journalists and analysts Dec. 9 here […]

Here’s more evidence that the data storage business, at least to this point, is unaffected by the U.S. economic downturn that started earlier this year. Researcher Gartner reported Dec. 9 that worldwide external controller-based disk storage revenue totaled $4.3 billion in the third quarter of 2008 — a full 10 percent increase over the same […]

Ziff Davis Enterprise, publisher of eWEEK, on Dec. 9 reported survey results indicating that the data storage sector of IT generally remains unblemished by the economic downturn that is zapping most of the U.S. and world economy.The survey and analysis for the new report, “Outlook for the 2009 Storage Market: An Online Survey of Ziff […]

It’s not very often that a utility literally pays back a customer. NetApp got an early Christmas gift on Dec. 8: a cool $1.4 million rebate from the local power company — Pacific Gas & Electric — in the San Francisco Bay area. Now that news should motivate some other companies to consider modernizing old […]

Harvard University has been recruiting students since the 17th century. On Dec. 8, however, the prestigious institution began recruiting people with computing power to help out in research projects that could benefit mankind in big ways.When a personal computer is on and connected to the Internet but sitting idle, a portion of that computing power […]