Chris Preimesberger

Enterprises considering investing in a configuration management database may want to read a study released by Forrester Research on July 28 that projects cost savings and ROI involving this product — the implementation of which can be expensive.In the interest of full disclosure, the study involved 26 enterprise users of one brand of CMDB, the […]

The Station received a tip this morning from a reader that Sunnyvale, Calif.-based storage startup Agami Systems has decided to suspend its operations. Five-year-old Agami provides storage for virtualized environments, consolidation and simplification of Windows-based environments. We talked with Agami’s North Central sales manager, Mike Sanders, today, and he confirmed that the rumor was indeed […]

Thanks to some quick work at Seagate Recovery Services, a confessed rapist will get the punishment he deserves after almost wriggling out of a harsher sentence because the most important piece of evidence was believed lost forever.Forty-year-old Michael Barnes is currently behind bars in a Santa Cruz County, Calif., jail awaiting sentencing. He faces more […]

The tale of the rogue network admin at the city and county of San Francisco continues to roll on with the IT world watching incredulously.In the latest update to the 15-day-long caper, prosecutors from District Attorney Kamala Harris’ office submitted personal-access passwords and user names in an exhibit for court reference last week as evidence […]

NASA has brought together a space weather satellite network, global communications and plenty of IT muscle to gain new insight into what causes the undulating streams of color known as the northern lights.While the project is paying dividends in terms of pure scientific research, it will also have practical value here on Earth by potentially […]

Business is a sophisticated game of give and take. In the protracted case of Microsoft trying to bludgeon Yahoo into submission so it could take home only the heart of the company, there certainly was a lot of action and reaction. Yahoo CEO and co-founder Jerry Yang obviously was in a pretty tough position, as […]

Enterprise content management provider Interwoven is extending its reach into the e-discovery software-as-a-service business, which really is little more than a deeper dive into content management.Interwoven announced July 24 it is acquiring six-year-old Discovery Mining, an e-discovery provider to professional services firms and corporations, for $36 million in cash.Discovery Mining’s software service automates the discovery […]

Storage infrastructure monster EMC is doing something right, for its customers and shareholders. Today the company announced record quarterly revenue results (um, this happens every three months, like clockwork) and its 20th consecutive quarter of double-digit year-over-year revenue growth. EMC’s total consolidated revenue for the second quarter of 2008 was $3.67 billion, an increase of […]

Storage infrastructure vendor EMC came out with a major update to its Documentum collaboration suite on July 22, and analysts believe it is now better equipped to compete with Microsoft SharePoint in the marketplace because it will appeal to younger, Web 2.0 users.Enterprise Content Management Suite version 6.5 utilizes the long-established Documentum platform to deliver […]

San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom demonstrated his negotiating prowess July 22 by breaking a nine-day-long standoff between an overly protective city network administrator and the city’s attorney and IT department.The San Francisco Chronicle reported that Newsom obtained the access codes to the city’s IT system switches and routers after conferring with embattled network administrator Terry […]