Chris Preimesberger

Andy Bechtolsheim, one of the four founders of Sun Microsystems and the chief architect of the company’s hardware systems for the better part of a generation, said Oct. 23 he is joining Arista Networks, a startup in the cloud computing space.Bechtolsheim will become chairman and chief development officer of the startup, which has about 50 […]

EAST PALO ALTO, Calif.-Amazon.com, one of the universally acknowledged Web 2.0 world leaders that has made its fortune by selling books, CDs and DVDs through its online stores, now sees its long-term future in the Web services subscription and storage business-otherwise known as cloud computing.During the last three years, Amazon has come out with its […]

EAST PALO ALTO, Calif.-Earlier this week, in a conference room here at the Four Seasons, some of the most powerful figures in Silicon Valley gathered for an informal meeting to discuss the state of IT in general and, by the way, how the rapidly zig-zagging economy also is impacting it.The conference, hosted by the DLA […]

Flash memory provider Samsung said Oct. 22 it has withdrawn its $26-per-share bid to acquire innovative but struggling NAND flash maker SanDisk. SanDisk’s common stock was trading at slightly above $10 on Oct. 22.The move by Samsung comes a mere two days after longtime flash memory partners Toshiba and SanDisk announced an agreement that turns […]

Despite the nosedive in the overall U.S. economy during the last month of the quarter, data storage giant EMC posted yet another exemplary financial report Oct. 22, recording its 21st consecutive quarter of double-digit, year-over-year revenue growth.The company did advise, however, that it does believe overall IT spending will slow down during the next 12 […]

Hewlett-Packard has been enabling its server/storage array and data center design customers to save power and cooling costs since long before it became the bandwagon topic it is today.The company itself has always been ecology-minded, going way back to the 1970s, when it put more efficient power supplies into its network printers, offered holistic data […]

Michael “Vizionary” Vizard, one of my most esteemed colleagues here at eWEEK, has a good blogster today on Cleversafe that we’d recommend for a quick, enlightened read. Cleversafe is a Chicago-based, open-source storage software provider that comes at the storage area-network idea from a very different angle. Here’s how their “dispersed-storage” process works. As Michael […]

A survey of C-level technology executives revealed Oct. 20 that a substantial majority believe that the industry is currently being hit-and will continue to be hit-especially hard by the downturn in the U.S. macroeconomy and that it is not a short-term situation.DLA Piper, an international law firm that does venture capital and intellectual property work […]

Flash memory providers Toshiba and SanDisk, partners for the last several years, announced an agreement Oct. 20 that turns over 30 percent of SanDisk’s share of current manufacturing capacity of the companies’ joint ventures to Toshiba. In exchange, SanDisk will get equipment-leasing cost reductions and a cash infusion amounting to about $1 billion.The deal throws […]

Companies that aren’t solely focused on data storage made some of the most important news at Storage Networking World in Dallas Oct. 13 to 16. Cisco Systems, for example, which is plunging swiftly into the data center systems business while continuing to roll along as the world’s No. 1 networking infrastructure supplier, unveiled some groundbreaking […]