Chris Preimesberger

EMC is a $23.5 billion company that makes no secret of the fact that in the 80 countries in which it does business, it has notched 20 consecutive quarters of double-digit, year-over-year revenue growth. It certainly has a right to be proud; this is an enviable accomplishment in any market.Even in the volatile U.S. macroeconomy, […]

1. How EMC was bornOn Aug. 23, 1979, EMC was born in Richard Egan’s Newton, Mass. home. To raise money for their future business, Egan and Roger Marino (the “E” and “M” in EMC) began working as product reps selling a special desk specifically designed for computer users. Sales of the desk eventually funded development […]

Dell on Oct. 7 introduced a new disk-to-disk backup and recovery package and aimed it squarely at midmarket enterprises with few or no IT staff members, which is still by far the fastest-growing enterprise market segment.Dell touts that its new PowerVault DL2000 cuts backup process time in half and data “restore” times by three-quarters, as […]

Risk management, secure and managed file transfers, e-discovery, e-mail archiving, and enterprise search are all positioned for a boom as the business and financial sector call on their unique services more than ever. 1. Risk management Companies that offer risk assessment tools, such as RSA Security, CA, BMC, McAfee, Symantec, Hewlett-Packard, SAP, Fortify and NitConnect, […]

Now is a good time to be an e-discoveryware provider. Companies such as Kazeon, Autonomy, Clearwell Systems, Attenex, Symantec, Seagate Technology’s MetaLINCS, Iron Mountain’s Stratify, LexisNexis, Recommind and some other smaller companies stand to gain business from what many expect to be a surge in litigation surrounding the Wall Street financial crisis. These companies, by […]

Like any movement in the U.S. macroeconomy, the current banking implosion and subsequent credit contraction are hurting a lot of enterprises, but it also is uncovering some opportunities for those in the right place at the right time. As the government takes over banks such as Washington Mutual and investment houses such as Bear Stearns, […]

The Station ruffled some journalistic feathers with our previous post. Sorry about that, but it happens in this bidness; it’s part of the job. The editor of ReadWriteWeb, Richard MacManus, told us off in a huff, crying “shame on you” for blasting a lame IT story on his site. It’s a free-speaking/writing country, he’s welcome […]

Get with it, ReadWriteWeb. If you’re going to try to wedge your way into the enterprise IT news business, you’d better make a more impressive showing than the silly piece you published Oct. 2 under the byline of Sarah Perez. The headline is “5 Big Data Center Trends for 2008.” There’s your first mistake. Um, […]

Virtualizing a desktop PC, a server, a storage array or an entire data center to obtain better efficiencies and draw less power certainly makes a lot of sense.As more enterprises each day finish their testing and QA projects, they are putting “virt,” as it is casually known, into production play-whether it’s market-leading VMware, Citrix’s XenSource, […]

Hewlett-Packard made the kind of acquisition Oct. 1 that IBM also is expected to make at some point: It bought a company, LeftHand Networks, a pioneer in second-generation, virtualization-ready data storage area networks for midmarket customers.HP said it will make the deal for $360 million in cash.The acquisition was not a big surprise to storage […]