Chris Preimesberger

The Station wanted to expand upon a point made in a story published Oct. 16 on eWEEK, “How the ‘Down’ Macroeconomy Will Impact the Data Storage Sector.” Most people and organizations are not good editors of digital files. It’s too easy to keep everything and simply buy more storage as needed. After all, it takes […]

And so the theorizing begins: How will the impending recession in the overall U.S. economy be impacting the various sections of the IT storage and data center businesses?As vital as they are to the continuity of business, the data storage, archiving, disaster recovery, e-discovery, risk management and online storage businesses are certainly not immune from […]

Storage new-product news usually involves items that are bigger, faster and cheaper, as disk drives themselves become more capacious and cutthroat competition lowers pricing. However, EMC’s Iomega, well-known for personal disk storage products such as the Zip and Jaz drives, is coming out with new products that are smaller-yet “bigger” in capacity-and cheaper.Iomega on Oct. […]

Novell added a major piece to its data center management software portfolio Oct. 15 when it acquired privately held Managed Objects. Terms of the deal were not made available.Managed Objects, which has been in business in the Washington, D.C., area since 1997, makes business service management software. Novell develops open-source software that manages various kinds […]

The Station gets pinged every once in a while by Mac users who complain — and with righteousness, God knows — that we don’t report enough about Mac-related storage. Well, folks, your time has come. Other World Computing said today that it is now shipping a 4GB DDR3 Memory Upgrade Kit for Apple’s new MacBook […]

FalconStor Software, which provides storage software for companies such as Sun Microsystems and EMC and doesn’t get a lot of recognition for it, said Oct. 13 that its FalconStor Network Storage Server is the first package to include full block-level support for failover and disaster recovery for Microsoft’s new Windows Server 2008. FalconStor provides “near-instantaneous […]

It turns out there are some so-called dirty little secrets that not every vendor will tell you about archiving products. They fall into five categories of “secrets”: scalability, data protection, performance, data migration and energy efficiency.Dirty Little Secret No. 1: Scalability. CAS(content-addressable storage) archives have a hard limit on the number of objects that can […]

If you’re an IT manager considering a major-or even a minor-data archiving buy, there are a few things you should be sure to take into consideration. It turns out there are some so-called dirty little secrets that not every vendor will tell you about archiving products.By this is meant that customers of data archive systems, […]

Now here’s a great response from a smart company to the current U.S. financial panic: Lower prices for a hot item—storage in the cloud. Amazon Web Services Oct. 9 announced that it will lower prices for the very popular Amazon Simple Storage Service (known as Amazon S3) effective Nov. 1. The new tiered pricing will […]

Venture capital firm Sequoia Capital, known for backing IT mega-hits such as Google, Apple and YouTube, Oct. 9 became one of the first VC firms to issue a strict advisory warning to both startups and established companies in their portfolios to trim expenses, cut ancillary jobs and contractors and tighten budget belts.Web 2.0 blogster Om […]