Chris Preimesberger

Who the heck is running Microsoft’s M&A team? From The Station’s vantage point, it sure looks like billionaire corporate pirate Carl Icahn, who doesn’t even work for Microsoft. Yahoo’s board of directors, forced by lawyers to meet on a day off (Saturday) and make a decision on Microsoft’s (read that Icahn’s) latest offer to dismantle […]

Wow, sudden and sad news, this. A powerful, respected voice in IT trade journalism has been stilled. Joe Barr, a colleague of The Station at NewsForge — now Linux.com— several years ago, died in his sleep July 10 in his home near Austin, Texas. He was 61. Warthawg, which was his email handle, wrote fiery, […]

Is it just The Station, or is Firefox getting to be as nasty as Windows when it comes to updates and patches? Well, okay, nobody is as patch-crazy as Microsoft, but the Mozilla folks who engineer the browser are coming in in an easy second place lately. Only about 10 days ago, all of us […]

There seems to be no limit in sight as to raw capacity on disk drives, although science would seem to indicate otherwise.Only about a year after introducing 1TB desktop drives, Seagate Technology on July 10 unveiled the industry’s first 1.5TB desktop drive along with a 500GB (half-terabyte) notebook hard drive.The debut of the Barracuda 7200.11 […]

Sun Microsystems July 9 added to its self-styled “open storage” portfolio by launching a new line of storage arrays for the midmarket and a new high-performance addition to its Sun Fire X4500 “Thumper” storage server.The various editions-Sun Storage J4200, J4400 and J4500-are differentiated by varying raw capacities and designed for midrange to enterprise users.Economics plays […]

DreamWorks, Pixar and Industrial Light & Magic are officially on notice: New challengers to those well-known U.S. companies in the field of computer-generated filmmaking are cropping up quickly in parts of the world far from Hollywood.Naturally, this is all very good news for the data storage sector, because storage is where all the high-performance computing […]

It’s not uncommon that an IT department of an enterprise sees a problem brewing, devises some home-grown software to bridge it, then goes right back to business.What doesn’t happen every day is when an enterprise IT department sees a problem, builds its own software package, uses it for two years in production, then finds so […]

Azaleos, which makes appliances that simplify control of Microsoft Exchange servers and handle e-mail archiving, said July 7 that its OneStop Services now support the soon-to-be-released iPhone 3G to provide seamless integration with Exchange servers.Seattle-based Azaleos becomes at least the second company to hook iPhones up with Exchange. Synchronica introduced its Mobile Gateway 3.0, which […]

Why would the EMC/VMware board of directors relieve VMware CEO Diane Greene of her responsibilities July 8 after she and her staff had built one of the most successful post-bubble IT companies in the world?Did Greene have a personal spat with EMC Chairman/CEO/President Joe Tucci? Yes, but that wasn’t the real reason. Was the misstep […]

The Station is reporting today – exclusively, we believe — that EMC’s 34-year-old veep of product management Jedidiah Yueh, who started data backup and deduplication provider Avamar Technologies in a Southern California apartment in 1999 and sold it to EMC for $165 million in November 2006, has left the mother ship and is starting another […]