Chris Preimesberger

Despite the struggling world economy, Facebook isn’t the only big-name company or organization that is planning a large investment in building its own data centers. Not by a long shot. Here at The Station, we’re going to report them one by one each day for a while in order to alert all our loyal readers […]

Network management software provider SolarWinds July 1 upgraded its flagship Orion software product line designed to help companies gain more control over large or geographically distributed networks.The new Orion Enterprise Operations Console and updated Orion Network Performance Monitor version 9 feature enterprise-level fault- and network-performance management that scales with the monitoring needs of growing networks, […]

The Station has heard from a couple of sources inside the industry that Facebook, which recently overtook MySpace.com in number of subscribers, is planning to move off leased, co-located data centers and build its own fleet of data farms. Mark Zuckerberg & Co. will be looking to use the latest, greatest and greenest data center […]

Storage controller maker Adaptec, which bought the Snap Server storage system franchise from Snap Appliance four years ago in a $100 million deal but didn’t develop the line as well as it should have, revealed June 30 that it has sold the NAS (network-attached storage) line to Overland Storage for $3.6 million.As part of the […]

SANTA CLARA, Calif.-The U.S. Department of Energy, through the Environmental Protection Agency’s EnergyStar program, in 2007 asked Silicon Valley systems makers to take a hard look at how they do business and explore whether they could run their operations and produce IT hardware that could be less power-hungry and more environmentally friendly.Then in August of […]

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — The flash memory sector noted a historic development June 25 when Spansion broke out of stealth mode and introduced a new, industrial-strength brand of the solid-state chip before a small group of analysts, media types and industry people here at the Computer History Museum. Spansion, established five years ago as a […]

MENLO PARK, Calif.-Sun Microsystems has quietly let it slip that it is running private beta tests on a new set of development tools specifically designed for building social networking applications in the cloud. Zmbly, the project’s internal name, was released to a select group of beta testers about a week ago.“You can think about it […]

We’ve been wanting to do this for a while, but now we’re setting aside some actual time and are going to do it: The Station is going to collect the names of as many online [“cloud”] storage services as we can find and will present a side-by-side comparison of them for your reference. We’ll chart […]

Carbonite, a small but popular online data backup provider, made history of sorts in the storage business on June 25 by becoming the first company to have its service bundled and automatically activated with the sale of a personal computer. Every Packard Bell computer sold in Europe, beginning in June, will be shipped with Carbonite […]