Chris Preimesberger

It’s a quiet Friday afternoon here at the Silicon Valley headquarters of Storage Station. The cool breeze off San Francisco Bay feels refreshing as it wafts through the screen in my office window. Those nasty black squirrels that have dominated the neighborhoods here for years since escaping from a breeding test gone awry over at […]

Solid-State Memory Will Kill HHDs SSD (solid-state drive) storage will ultimately kill HHD (hybrid hard drive) disk storage. Not everyone will agree. It could take years, perhaps even a full generation, but spinning disk storage will give way to the simpler, more efficient solid-state form factor. Here’s why SSD storage will kill HHD storage. Solid-State […]

Upstart open-source storage vendor Cleversafe, which recently was a finalist in eWEEK’s 2008 Excellence Awards for new software, identifies itself as the “leading provider of Dispersed Storage technology and software.” We’ll define that in a minute; read on, please. The Chicago-based company announced this week that its first appliance-based products to create a dsNet (Dispersed […]

10 Predictions for the Future of SAAS and On-Demand 10 Predictions for the Future ofSAAS and On-DemandBy Chris Preimesberger 10 Predictions for the Future of SAAS and On-Demand – Demian Entrekins Predictions 10 Predictions for the Future ofSAAS and On-DemandDemian Entrekin’s PredictionsDemian Entrekin is the CTO of Innotas, which makes an on-demand Project Portfolio Management […]

Parallel file system storage specialist Panasas, founded by Dr. Garth Gibson of Carnegie Mellon University, the man who co-created RAID back in the ’90s, has tailored its ActiveStor product line for enterprise use.ActiveStor, with its extremely fast file system and processing power, is usually found in scientific data centers like that at Los Alamos National […]

Amazon is extending its Web service offerings for enterprises that want to move more of their IT into that ever expanding Internet “cloud” and protect it from a disaster of some sort. Amazon on Aug. 21 launched a new enterprise-oriented online service called the Amazon Elastic Block Store, a persistent storage feature designed to augment […]

Sun Microsystems, which has made data storage one of its top three priorities, has been wrestling with a boatload of financial difficulties recently. Its market cap has dwindled to $7.54 billion, and its cash in the bank is down to about $3 billion after being twice that for a long time. Its stock price is […]

UPDATED: Look for some big news from the Dell storage shop in September regarding its hot EqualLogic brand and in October involving networking partners that include Cisco Systems. Did you know that Dell made switches? We didn’t. Sigh. The Station is sworn to secrecy on these news items until the time is right. By the […]

SAN FRANCISCO-Intel has been developing solid-state flash memory processors for as long as flash has been around, which is about 20 years. But only on Aug. 19 at the Intel Developer Forum here did the world’s largest chip maker announce its first-ever flash-based SATA drives for data storage.Intel’s High-Performance SATA (Serial ATA) solid-state drives are […]

UPDATED: As you might imagine, when companies do something they deem “newsworthy” (and that term has a lot of relative meanings), they immediately ping their marketing folks and PR agencies to get them hooked up with media types, so they can tell their stories and get the word out as soon as possible. So when […]