Chris Preimesberger

NComputing has sold more than 600,000 virtual desktops in the last three years, offering an innovative way to harness what it calls “the untapped power of existing PCs.” The 5-year-old NComputing provides the software that creates a virtual desktop environment on any Windows- or Linux-based computer. The NComputing solution differs from competitors Citrix Systems, Microsoft […]

All right, all right, all right … We get the message! We can’t continue going a week between blog items here. Truthfully, thanks to all of you who’ve sent e-mails and phoned to ask why The Station has been putting up only about one item per week here lately. All we can say is that, […]

Iomega is indicating it is willing to consider EMC’s latest offer, a $205.5 million cash buyout bid presented March 18. The consumer storage hardware maker said it is prepared to begin talks with EMC regarding the acquisition of its 54.8 million outstanding shares. The latest bid comes after Iomega’s board of directors unanimously turned down […]

IRVINE, Calif. – The security world winces when it is reminded of the horror story of the TJX Inc. data breach, the largest such incident to date in IT history. In that March 2007 event, more than 45.6 million credit card, debit card, social security, drivers’ license and military identification numbers were stolen from the […]

Two engineers who in the late 1980s came up with the idea of the content-addressable storage design-which eventually morphed into EMC’s multimillion-dollar Centera high-end storage platform-have been reunited at clustered storage provider Caringo.The company announced the appointment of Jan Van Riel as its vice president of advanced technology, March 17, a move that reunites him […]

IRVINE, Calif. -Data protection service provider Datacastle March 12 announced the availability of what it claims to be the first software-as-a-service package for midmarket businesses that combine continuous data protection with data security and vulnerability mitigation features. The 3-year-old Seattle-based company, which sells its software through ISPs, made the announcement here at the Data Protection […]

The date: March 12, 2008. The scene: the second Data Protection Conference at the Irvine (Calif.) Hilton, right across MacArthur Boulevard from the “Hey there, Pilgrim” airport — John Wayne International. I’ve been covering the event this week. Some 660 registered attendees and speakers were moving to and fro, going in and out of seminars, […]

STANFORD, Calif.-Walking into the big meeting room at the Frances C. Arrillaga Alumni Center on the Stanford University campus March 7 for the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research summit, the first thing one noticed were the comfortable-looking, overstuffed dark leather chairs on the dais for speakers and panelists. Conferences never supply panelists with chairs […]

Nobody would have believed this as little as two years ago, but Sun Microsystems and former bitter rival Microsoft March 10 announced that they have opened an “interoperability center” on Microsoft’s campus for optimizing Windows applications to run on the Sun Fire x64 server storage machines.In addition, Sun said that it now has made available […]

Consumer data storage hardware maker Iomega on March 10 revealed that it had received an unsolicited $178.1 million buyout offer from IT infrastructure giant EMC, and rejected it.EMC told the Iomega board of directors that it is prepared to acquire the 54.8 million shares of outstanding common stock for $3.25 per share, totaling approximately $178.1 […]