Chris Preimesberger

Data storage giant EMC is continuing its lengthy hot streak of quarterly financial success, reporting April 23 record first-quarter revenue and double-digit revenue growth across the company.It was EMC’s 19th consecutive quarter of double-digit, year-over-year revenue growth. The 39,000-employee company exceeded analyst revenue estimates by $20 million.EMC’s total revenue for the first quarter of 2008 […]

Data warehousing — remember when that was a hot buzzphrase about seven years ago? — remains a growing sector of IT data storage, and the generally acknowledged market leader continues to be Teradata. For those of you who might not be clear on the definition: A data warehouse is a repository of an organization’s electronically […]

Western Digital, the world’s second-largest disk drive maker behind Seagate Technology, revealed April 21 that it has started shipping its fastest hard drive yet for PCs and Macs: the VelociRaptor. The 2.5-inch VelociRaptor SATA (serial ATA) drive runs at 10,000 RPM and can hold up to 300GB of data–35 percent faster and double the capacity […]

Jon Toigo, CEO of Toigo Partners, writes a cliche-busting, skeptical, yet thoughtful storage blog. It’s colorfully named DrunkenData.com. Toigo, who eschews the term “analyst,” is a popular speaker, journalist, book author and consultant, and his views, while sometimes a little bombastic, are well respected. Today he’s in the process of trying to get his arms […]

It took about four years of research and development, but it looks like the Mozilla developers have finally plugged most of the memory leaks that were irritating some users of the Firefox browser. Browsers, to be sure, are I/O and memory suckers. They do a heck of a lot of very fast work scouring the […]

STANFORD, Calif.-Several large Internet service providers-namely Comcast Communications, AT&T, Time Warner and Verizon-were verbally battered April 17 by private citizens, free-Internet access advocates and representatives of radio stations and small ISPs (Internet service providers) at a special public hearing before the Federal Communications Commission.The five-member FCC, in a session hosted by the Stanford Law School […]

IBM finally pulled the trigger April 18 and bought a storage company with powerful de-duplication software: privately held Diligent Technologies.Terms of the acquisition were not disclosed by either company, but a storage analyst who asked not to be named told eWEEK the cash price was in the $200 million range.Diligent, headquartered in Framingham, Mass., with […]

Citrix Systems gave eWEEK a preview of its beta-level Citrix XenDesktop April 16, and if lack of latency in mouse movement relative to application performance is a key indicator of success, then this new product has made big-time progress toward solving that nagging problem.Latency between mouse movement and action on the screen-which often can be […]

Sun Microsystems President and CEO Jonathan Schwartz and Executive Vice President for Software Rich Green run what is now the largest open-source-based IT infrastructure company in the world. Schwartz became CEO of the 26-year-old company in May 2006 when longtime President and CEO Scott McNealy moved to take over as chairman of the board. One […]

Solid-state drive maker STEC said April 15 it will vigorously fight a four-count patent-infringement lawsuit brought by Seagate Technology the previous day. The SSD manufacturer, based in Santa Ana, Calif., also said it is in the process of preparing counterinfringement suits against Seagate, the world’s largest hard drive maker. Seagate’s legal action contends that STEC […]