Chris Preimesberger

F5 Networks, which specializes in automated virtualization software for data centers, launched a new version of its Acopia FreedomFabric network operating system Feb. 4, alongside a new data center network manager. The combination of the FreedomFabric 3.0 operating system and the FreedomFabric Network Manager gives F5 Networks the industry’s first “independent management platform for intelligent […]

SAN FRANCISCO-When Michael Dell announced that his company was acquiring EqualLogic and its second-generation iSCSI storage system technology in November 2007, he said, “We now have the rocket fuel to put us in front” in the increasingly competitive data storage business. Well, if the rocket fuel was in the tank, then Feb. 4 was the […]

The Station has been off the storage beat for the last couple of days, covering the mysterious Internet cable outages in the Mediterranean Sea and Persian Gulf. No one will come out and say it just yet, but foul play has to be involved here. These ultra-heavy-duty fiber-optic cables, located hundreds — sometimes thousands of […]

The third major deep-sea Internet and telecom cable outage in two days hit the Middle East Feb. 1, this time in the Persian Gulf. The outages have caused widespread disruption in both Internet and telecommunications voice traffic, and threaten to disrupt Internet-based business models the world over. The cuts in the fiber-optic cable located in […]

Internet connectivity in Egypt, Jordan and Saudi Arabia that was cut off or seriously impaired Jan. 30 by cuts to two undersea cables in the Mediterranean Sea near Alexandria likely will take 12 to 15 days to fully repair, eWEEK has learned. The cause of the cable damage was still unknown on Jan. 31, but […]

Congratulations to NetApp’s new president and chief operating officer, Tom Georgens, who moves up from executive vice president of product operations. Georgens is one of the most knowledgable and articulate news sources in the business — not only about NetApp, but the sector in general. He’ll report to CEO Dan Warmenhoven, who’s celebrating his 13th […]

Hitachi Data Systems Jan. 29 introduced new data migration services based on its home-developed virtualization platform that enable enterprises to migrate data between heterogeneous storage systems in the background while servers and applications stay online. Most data migrations between storage systems, especially between unrelated storage silos, take hours or days to complete and most often […]

Storage infrastructure giant EMC continued its string of flush financial reports Jan. 29, showing record fourth-quarter and full-year revenue and strong year-over-year growth in profit, earnings per share and operating cash flow. It was EMC’s 18th consecutive quarter of double-digit, year-over-year revenue growth. The financial rewards were sparked by double-digit revenue growth across the company’s […]

Virtualization giant VMware, whose stock value was reeling following a whopping drop from $83 to $60.73 per share in after-hours trading Jan. 28, lost about 27 percent of its paper value – or about $8 billion – in a matter of hours because it reported fourth-quarter revenues that fell short of Wall Street expectations. VMware […]

If 2006 and 2007 were when Fortune 1000 enterprises were testing storage virtualization in their data centers, 2008 and 2009 are going to be the years that all this hot new software will be deployed into daily production. Most storage analysts believe that only about 15 to 20 percent of these large corporations are actually […]