Chris Preimesberger

The Station will make a personal appearance tomorrow, Oct. 1, at a special daylong SDForum conference on “Cloud Computing and Beyond: The Web Grows Up (Finally),” to be held from 9 a.m. to 5:15 p.m. at the Network Meeting Center, Tasman and Great America Parkway, in Santa Clara, Calif. If you happen to be in […]

The largest U.S. financial debacle since the weeks and months following the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on New York and Washington has left no U.S. business unaffected. The IT industry, meaning all sectors of the software, hardware and associated services businesses, is certainly not immune to what is transpiring.Indeed, all financial institutions, by their […]

Flash memory and storage device provider SanDisk said Sept. 29 that it will soon bring to market the world’s largest removable storage capacity for mobile phones-16GB MicroSDHC (SD High Capacity) and Memory Stick Micro mobile memory cards.Best Buy Mobile and Verizon Wireless stores will be the first major retail outlets in the United States to […]

The free fall in the U.S. macroeconomy is going to greatly magnify the importance of the e-discovery software business. Now is a good time to be Kazeon, Autonomy, Clearwell Systems, Attenex, Symantec, Seagate Technology’s MetaLINCS, Iron Mountain’s Stratify, LexisNexis, Recommind or a host of other smaller companies. As the government takes over commercial banks such […]

SANTA CLARA, Calif. — Apparently, there are some real career paths available in the online fraud business. One can become an identity harvester, a software developer who builds botnets, a delivery middleman, a salesperson–the list is long and resembles legitimate businesses in many ways.At an analysts’ briefing Sept. 25 at EMC’s Silicon Valley offices, RSA […]

The Station has been writing so often about the issues dogging U.S. air traffic IT systems lately that we could probably fill a daily blog called “Air Traffic Data Storage Station.” The reasons for this coverage here at eWEEK are many, and they deal with far more than simply IT and data storage. Most of […]

It has endured a lot of grief lately due to some well-documented crashes of its national flight plan-filing system, but the Federal Aviation Administration is finally starting to bring its Cold War-era IT systems into the new century.In the last several months, the FAA has upgraded its legacy internal business systems to a new open-systems […]

A major portion of the decades-old national air traffic control system used to manage thousands of commercial and general aviation takeoffs and landings every day in the United States has crashed multiple times under the 20-year strain of its 24/7 operations.As a result, industry analysts and a number of former Federal Aviation Administration staff members […]

SAN FRANCISCO-Three of the biggest companies in the IT world are combining next-version technologies to make it more palatable for enterprises to install and configure Oracle‘s monster data warehouse, a complicated clustered-storage project that takes months to deploy to full production.The three vendors introduced a new version of Oracle Optimized Warehouse for Dell and EMC […]

Seagate Technology said Sept. 23 that it has created a new wholly owned subsidiary called i365 that will comprise its EVault, MetaLINCS, and Seagate Recovery Services companies, which previously were operating loosely under the name Seagate Services. As of Sept. 23 these companies-each of which Seagate acquired within the last two years-will be known formally […]