Chris Preimesberger

In August 2007, CEOs John Chambers of Cisco Systems and Steve Ballmer of Microsoft met in New York City and committed their companies to collaborating and offering more interoperable products and services for mutual customers. One of the first results of those talks came to the fore Feb. 26 when Microsoft and Cisco jointly announced […]

Emerson Network Power announced Feb. 25 that it will acquire privately held data center management provider Aperture. Financial terms of the agreement were not disclosed.A spokesperson for Emerson, an IT conglomerate, said that Aperture’s board of directors agreed in principle to the offer to acquire 100 percent of the company’s shares.It was the second acquisition […]

Novell announced Feb. 25 that it will acquire Toronto-based virtualization management software and services provider PlateSpin Ltd. for $205 million in cash. It was the second acquisition Novell has revealed in 12 days. The Waltham, Mass.-based enterprise software maker bought open-source team collaboration software provider SiteScape — founder of the ICEcore open-source collaboration project — […]

News item from Reuters, Feb. 22, 2008: “EMC, the world’s largest storage infrastructure company, hired a former Microsoft executive, Paul Maritz, to start a new Cloud Infrastructure and Services Division. The unit will focus on delivering services accessed over the Web that seem to exist in a cloud of the Internet.” You read that correctly: […]

SAN FRANCISCO-While the IT world itself has been working for several years to reduce its carbon footprint and to cut back greenhouse gas emissions, other business sectors-such as auto manufacturing, oil and gasoline, electrical power and many others-have had their own incentives to do likewise.Now it looks like these disparate sectors of the world economy […]

Compellent released on Feb. 19 a new version of its storage area network that is able to find and utilize orphaned storage space all through the system-not only in storage volumes, but even in a data center’s application servers. Compellent Storage Center 4.0 is the first networked storage system to manage data inside the storage […]

It was bound to happen, and it turned out to be sooner rather than later. Pliant Technology officially launched itself as a privately held company Feb. 19, becoming the first enterprise vendor to focus its complete attention on producing data storage systems that use solid-state flash memory instead of conventional disk drives.Solid-state flash drives use […]

Google on Feb. 13 released a new software development kit for its open-source Android mobile operating system.This marks the first update of the SDK since the original version was launched in November 2007. “On behalf of the entire Android team, I’m happy to let you know that an updated version of the Android SDK-we’re calling […]

10 Factors That Define an Energy-Efficient Data Center 10 Factors That Define an Energy-Efficient Data Center – 1 A “green” data center is one in which the lighting/cooling, mechanical, electrical and computer systems are designed for maximum energy efficiency and minimum environmental impact. 10 Factors That Define an Energy-Efficient Data Center – 2 A green […]

The Station is often asked: “Where do you get all the ideas for your articles?” Truth be told — and the truth is always written here, mind you — that not all the stories we write are originally conceived by the bylined person. Knowing this must disappoint some readers, but we’re not afraid to report […]