Chris Preimesberger

Industry sources have confirmed to eWEEK that Hewlett-Packard will acquire Electronic Data Systems for about $13 billion.The announcement may come as early as May 14, the source told eWEEK. HP acknowledged the news first earlier May 12.“There can be no assurances that an agreement will be reached or that a transaction will be consummated,” HP […]

MINNEAPOLIS-Bill Snow and Ed Eades are a couple of IT managers with very different businesses and data center setups. But they are totally in sync on at least one thing: Their data recovery systems are of supreme importance, and nothing is left to chance. Both men took part in an hour-long panel discussion before a […]

MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. — The Station, in town to moderate a panel discussion at the Compellent C-Drive conference, took a tour of the old downtown yesterday. Driving by the corner First Avenue night club, he could almost hear Prince, the Replacements, and Husker Du performing before packed audiences. He imagined Mary Tyler Moore joyously throwing her […]

Storage analyst Matt Bryson of Avian Securities reported May 7 that Western Digital is gaining further share in the notebook market at the expense of Japanese vendors — to the tune of a half-million drives. “This practice fits with WD’s past willingness to give up some gross margin points in return for gains at the […]

Spring cleaning — taking a long, hard look at your possessions to weed out the junk, so as to free up living space — is a longtime tradition in many cultures. Since we spend a good portion of our lives on computers, it also makes good sense to “spring clean” personal desktop/laptop systems, as well […]

Of course it’s easy to say it now, and The Station will accept any email guff on this topic in retrospect: There was no way in heck that Microsoft was ever going to corral Yahoo — from Day One. We never wrote here about it, but we told a number of people, and you all […]

Internet hosting provider Rackspace, of San Antonio, Texas, on May 5 launched its own Web-based storage service — dubbed CloudFS — to beta users through its “cloud” computing division, Mosso. The news comes on the heels of the company’s filing April 28 with the Securities & Exchange Commission for its initial public offering. The company […]

A couple of hot “disruptive” data storage companies — whose technologies are revolutionary yet complementary — have joined forces and will commingle their wares. Moonwalk, an Australian developer of data management and protection software, and U.S.-based Caringo have created a joint, single-tier storage package using Caringo’s CAStor clustered architecture and Moonwalk’s middlewareless data management system. […]

ExaGrid, a company sometimes overlooked due to the larger storage players but which has its own powerful deduplication secret sauce, is offering a free eSeminar tomorrow, April 30, to explain a new way to add “dedupe” to your own iSCSI storage array. The eSeminar, which is produced in coordination with our publisher, Ziff Davis Enterprise, […]

It used to be that journalists like The Station did our research, talked to a few sources, then wrote and filed our stories — and that pretty much was the end of our relationship with that particular story. We’d simply move on to the next assignment. Not so any more! Thanks to useful new Web […]