Chris Preimesberger

It’s rather interesting that both IBM and Hewlett-Packard decided to unveil on the same day, Sept. 2, new virtualization-ready blade servers that have been in development for months.It’s reminiscent of NBC and CBS, which often appear to be in cahoots of some kind when Jay Leno and David Letterman “just happen” to take vacations at […]

VMware continues to have a rough year.First, VMware posted a lackluster Q4 2007 quarterly report Jan. 29 which caused the paper value of the company to drop a whopping $8 billion in a matter of hours in after-market trading.In June, super IT power Microsoft became a major competitor with its new Hyper V virtualization platform. […]

UPDATED: Just remember, you read this here first. Both IBM and Hewlett-Packard, the Nos. 1 and 2 IT system-and-service vendors in the world, will be making big news announcements around blade servers, storage and virtualization on Tuesday, Sept. 2. IBM will be introducing its first blade server designed specifically to reduce security threats. HP is […]

Dell, in its zeal to expand its nonenterprise market share in Europe and in various IT sectors, may have expended too much marketing energy and cash trying to set up retail outlets and woo consumers over to its laptops, desktops and peripherals. Dell revealed in its quarterly report on Aug. 28 (link will expire in […]

Storage infrastructure provider Adaptec is getting back into the ASIC production business. Adaptec announced Aug. 27 that it is acquiring privately held RAID board maker Aristos Logic for about $41 million in cash.Aristos employs about 75 people and has been supplying a handful of the top 10 largest storage makers with application-specific integrated circuits since […]

Michael Phelps and Usain Bolt weren’t the only superstars at the Beijing Olympics who set some eye-popping records over in Beijing. The Station just saw some numbers from NBC and Sun Microsystems, which will soon release the results of the NBCOlympics.com Web metrics that show how the site served as a significant supplement to television. […]

Cisco Systems is heading into a big-time “co-opetition” to handle enterprise e-mail against a longtime partner, Microsoft, thanks to the Aug. 27 acquisition of privately held PostPath.Cisco will pay a total of $215 million for PostPath and expects to close the deal in Cisco’s first quarter of fiscal year 2009.PostPath will provide the final piece […]

The Federal Aviation Administration’s flight plan IT network, which went down for about 2.5 hours Aug. 26 and fouled up the takeoff plans of thousands of travelers in more than 40 airports across the country, was back up and running Aug. 27.IT staff were still troubleshooting it today in Hampton, Ga., where the agency’s primary […]

UPDATED: If you ever have the urge to literally bake a computer hard drive at high temperature and see if it survives to deliver data another day, well, don’t bother. Fujitsu and a newish company called ioSafe already have been there and done that. And they are quite willing to give you a full report […]

Yep. Looks like Gartner, that internationally respected IT analyzer famous for its Magic Quandrants, has reported more proof of something The Station has been writing about for a while: that second-generation SAN (storage area network) maker Compellent Technologies is the fastest-growing block-based external storage company in the world. For two years in a row, no […]