Chris Preimesberger

Hewlett-Packard this week announced that it is joining a growing group of data storage providers by adding its own brand of deduplication software to its new virtual libraries. Here’s the story. After it posted in advance last Friday, The Station received a call from Daniel Bingham, a PR rep from Sepaton. “Hey, I read your […]

Data Domain, so seriously immersed in data deduplication technology that it changed its Nasdaq stock ticker symbol to “DDUP,” said June 24 that it is now including a new “retention-lock” feature in its storage operating system for IT governance purposes.IT governance is a subset of so-called corporate governance that focuses on risk management in IT […]

Movie Video Storage by the Numbers By Chris Preimesberger 25 million: The number of CPU hours it took to make DreamWorks’ latest computer graphics film, “Kung Fu Panda,” which debuted June 6. “Kung Fu Panda” was created in a three-dimensional-like style and took about three years to make. That compares to about 5 million CPU […]

Symantec has bundled a management software package that combines the Big Three requirements of data center management into one product: systems management, endpoint security and backup/recovery.Using in a single management console, Symantec said June 23 that it has packaged Altiris Client Management Suite 6, Symantec Endpoint Protection 11.0 and Backup Exec System Recovery 8 Desktop […]

Industry insiders are talking about what move Seagate Technology, the world’s largest and most successful disk drive maker, is going to make to get into a better position in the NAND flash market.Analyst Daniel Amir of financial advisory/asset management firm Lazard put out a mergers-and-acquisition research note June 19 speculating that Seagate Technology may buy […]

Hewlett-Packard on June 23 will announce that it is joining a growing group of data storage providers by adding its own brand of deduplication software to two new storage arrays.The company will introduce the new disk-based backup systems with data deduplication technology that increases disk utilization by up to 50 times to deliver scalable storage, […]

The Station couldn’t resist this little item. Storage-related it’s not, but here it is anyway. We were just taking a late-afternoon break to watch talented English songster James Blunt do a number on Ellen DeGeneres’ popular ABC talk show. Turns out James actually put his sister up on eBay and sold her to the highest […]

The Station goes to a lot of user and company conferences; it’s required by the job. Usually, they are well worth the time, effort and money it takes to travel to and cover them, because they are a great opportunity to meet in person with both vendors and users of those particular IT products and […]

NEW YORK — Solid-state flash-based laptops are starting to move from market shelves in 2008, pretty much on the schedule The Station discussed almost two years ago. Yes, they’re moving, all right. But if you’re really in the market for one, it might be better to wait a few months — perhaps until this fall […]

Microsoft fastest-yet homegrown supercomputer, running the U.S. company’s new Windows HPC Server 2008, debuted in the top 25 of the world’s top 500 fastest supercomputers, as tested and operated by the National Center for Supercomputing Applications.The supercomputer, built and maintained in Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, ranked No. 23 in the world with a problem-solving performance of 68.5 […]