Chris Preimesberger

Sun Microsystems on April 29 showed that it continues to reinvent itself in its chosen open-source image by introducing new software development tools and professional storage services for the open-source storage developer community.The company has identified what it sees as a “radical transformation to the open storage era,” since it contends that more and more […]

IBM, which acquired Arsenal Digital Solutions’ online data storage services in December 2007, is beginning to integrate the company’s second-generation “cloud computing” technology into its own massive product portfolio.In a pair of announcements April 28, IBM said it has expanded its Express Advantage Portfolio for midsize businesses to include a new set of information protection […]

VMware took issue with a story The Station filed earlier this eWEEK, claiming that Citrix isn’t telling the whole truth about its new XenDesktop. In other words, VMware claims Citrix isn’t being forthright in positioning the new desktop to the media and the general public, because there are other items that must be bought and […]

The Station never fails to be amazed at the amount of money being made throughout this sector. EMC on Wednesday, April 23, turned in a report card showing a cool $3 billion in quarterly revenue — a good deal of profit included. Hewlett-Packard’s Enterprise Storage and Servers division reported Q1 revenue of $4.8 billion, up […]

We’ve all been there at one time or another-and if you haven’t, you will be at some point: Your computer seizes up, the Blue Screen of Death rears its ugly head and your computer passes away into the night, taking all that data and functionality with it.We’re talking about the life cycle of the typical […]

EMC swallows Avamar in November 2006. IBM acquires Diligent a few weeks ago. More of this is bound to happen, believe me. Deduplication, virtualization layers and e-discovery/compliance software comprise the three hottest buying trends in data storage right now. They are all must-have additions to older systems, and some of them are being built right […]

Despite industrywide marketing spin espousing politically correct intentions to make data centers more environmentally sound, few IT system managers actually have any specific plans in place. Furthermore, most IT managers give their operations failing grades in reducing energy consumption, a new industry study reported. Lack of funding and operational resources-at least in this year’s budgets-were […]

10 Storage Deduplication Companies That Might Be Acquired by Chris Preimesberger 10 Storage Deduplication CompaniesThat Might Be AcquiredIBM pulled the trigger April 18 and added Diligent Technologies to augment its VTL and mainframe storage products with a powerful deduplication provider. Other vendors are apt to do the same, and these are the companies they’ll be […]

When The Station hears the word “Kingston,” the first thought that comes to mind is the Kingston Trio, who owned the folk music world for a few years in the late 1950s and early ’60s, before the British Invasion changed pop music. (Yours truly interviewed them once for a newspaper feature around 1989.) “Tom Dooley” […]

How hot was the hard disk drive (HDD) market in 2007? Pretty darn sizzling, despite the cooling U.S. economy, according to Southern California-based industry analyst iSuppli. 2007 was indeed a year to remember for HDD makers, with shipments reaching 516 million units, up from 434 million in 2006. Factory revenue rose to $32.8 billion, up […]