Chris Preimesberger

Virtualization in the data center has broken out of the experimental and testing stage in many IT shops, but there are still a great many large-enterprise CIOs who are not completely sold on using it in daily production.New research reported Feb. 12 that worldwide, 54 percent of large enterprises rate management of their virtual server […]

IBM has made its first storage product news since last October by announcing Feb. 12 a wide range of new software and hardware offerings for large enterprises and for small and midsize businesses.The key item here is that IBM is now using 1TB drives in its storage arrays, following similar moves by Network Appliance, EMC, […]

One of Salesforce.com’s key North American CRM servers, NA5, was up and down for most of the business day Feb. 11 following a software upgrade, a Salesforce customer who asked to remain anonymous told eWEEK. The unstable server caused some havoc in an unspecified number of customers’ accounts, the customer said.The software upgrade was installed […]

It could be that some of you don’t know The Station’s full involvement in daily journalism. In addition to covering storage, the data center, virtualization and other swell topics for eWEEK, we have had a fun side job since the Reagan Administration covering NCAA hoops for The Associated Press. Most of the time, this means […]

Hope you saw The Station’s exclusive interview with Dell CEO Michael Dell (why doesn’t anyone ever call him Mike?) and Global Storage Director Praveen Asthana on eWEEK’s main section the other day. Good, interesting, valuable points of view, plus a few funny analogies. If you’d rather read it on paper, it’ll be featured prominently in […]

Outside of See’s Candies, FTD and Victoria ‘s Secret, perhaps no other company is more affiliated with Valentine’s Day than 1-800-FLOWERS, whose telephone-order service was founded way back in 1976. The Long Island-based company’s Web site, 1-800-FLOWERS.com, was one of the true pioneers of the Internet, going online in 1992-before Mosaic/Netscape’s graphical browsers were available-and […]

FLAG Telecom, owner and operator of several thousand miles of fiber-optic cable in the Middle East, is busily laying new undersea cable to replace lines that were cut in two places in the Mediterranean Sea near Alexandria on Jan. 30 and in a third location two days later in the Persian Gulf.Two more cuts were […]

Here’s a pop quiz: Which segment of Dell’s hardware business-PCs, servers or storage systems-has grown the fastest over the last two years? If you said storage systems, you are correct. And as it looks toward the future, the company known the world over for building personal computers and high-quality application servers for the past two […]

The Station sat down for a conversation with Michael Dell this morning (Feb. 4) before the company unveiled its first Dell EqualLogic storage products — a mere 85 days after the Round Rock company announced it was acquiring the small, Nashua, N.H.-based company. This is impressive stuff, getting the newly co-branded Dell EqualLogic arrays prepared […]

SAN FRANCISCO — The Green Grid, a global consortium dedicated to advancing energy efficiency in data centers, will unveil four project “deliverables” during its first public Technical Forum and Members’ Meeting here Feb. 5-6.The consortium, launched one year ago and now sporting some 150 members, aims to deliver “strategies, methodologies and process recommendations” to provide […]