Chris Preimesberger

SANTA CLARA, Calif.-Open-source database maker MySQL opened its sixth user conference April 15 under a new owner, Sun Microsystems, and promptly released to general availability a near-final release candidate of Version 5.1 of its popular enterprise product. The free enterprise database, which has been downloaded at a rate of between 60,000 and 70,000 copies per […]

Samplify Systems, a real-time sampled data compression startup in Santa Clara, Calif., that solves I/O bottlenecks, has an interesting, second-generation take on data movement and storage for real-world, high-speed signals that get digitized by analog-to-digital converters (ADCs). It uses a patented, high-end, but low-complexity compression algorithm to compress certain kinds of signals that have never […]

The digital video storage business is hopping. Companies like Isilon, BlueArc, NetApp (thanks to its 2003 Spinnaker acquisition) and several others are generally doing quite well now as more and more television and cable stations move all their analog film setups to digital. IPTV is taking off, too, and don’t think a lot of companies […]

The rumors we’ve been hearing for weeks are true: Data protection provider Symantec, which swallowed storage company Veritas four years ago and has had indigestion ever since, is weeding out its staff and is in the process of laying off a number of longtime employees. A substantial number of these, The Station has learned, are […]

IBM announced April 10 that it has acquired FilesX, a privately held storage software company based in Newton, Mass., and Haifa, Israel, that specializes in continuous data protection for enterprises with remote or branch offices. Financial terms were not disclosed. The acquisition is expected to close within the next several weeks, IBM Director of Storage […]

Data security and storage provider Symantec disclosed on April 9 that it is acquiring an OEM partner, software-as-a-service provider AppStream. Terms of the deal were not disclosed by either company.AppStream brings a whole new market-desktop virtualization-to the Symantec catalog. The company’s streaming technology allows any Windows-based software application to be streamed on demand to an […]

SAN FRANCISCO-EMC had to increase its offer twice-from $178 million to $205.5 million to $213 million in cash-but it finally landed Iomega on April 8 to be the cornerstone of the company’s new consumer focus. The world’s largest data storage infrastructure company announced at the RSA Conference at the Moscone Center here that it had […]

SAN FRANCISCO-Security scares off new projects and innovation. EMC Executive Vice President and RSA Security Division President Art Coviello told a standing-room only crowd of about 8,000 during the opening keynote of the RSA Security 2008 Conference here at the Moscone Center that “we need to turn a longstanding stereotype of information security on its […]

Fujitsu Computer Systems announced a new storage appliance for the midrange market April 7, one that contains much of the same hardware and software that makes up the company’s high-end storage line. Fujitsu’s new Eternus 4000 Model 300 SAN Business Continuity appliance employs, on a much smaller scale, the company’s trademark storage system, replication software, […]

A startup called MokaFive is launching the MokaFive Desktop Virtualization service on April 7. The new service, supported by 15 pending patents, is intended to deliver “virtual desktops as a service” to help customers manage thousands of virtual desktops running a variety of operating systems and resolve key security issues remotely. Click Here to Watch […]