Chris Preimesberger

Dell has struggled to find growth recently in its core PC business, but it appears to have found ample room and opportunity in disk storage. The Round Rock, Texas, IT systems maker saw its third-quarter disk storage hardware revenue soar 17.9 percent over the same period last year, to $409 million from $347 million, and […]

Disk drive maker Seagate Technology announced Dec. 6 that it will acquire 4-year-old, privately held e-discovery software provider MetaLincs. Financial terms were not disclosed.MetaLincs’ software automatically analyzes e-mails, documents and associated metadata, and presents visual analysis of people, conversations, concepts and communication patterns, Seagate Services Group Senior Vice President and General Manager Mark Grace told […]

IBM announced Dec. 6 that it will acquire 10-year-old Arsenal Digital Solutions USA, a privately held online storage services and data protection company, matching moves by EMC and other storage players to add online storage services. Based in Cary, N.C., Arsenal Digital and all 100 employees will become part of IBM Global Technology Services, based […]

Have you ever heard Jon Toigo, founder of the Green Data Project and author of DrunkenData.com blog, speak? Now there’s an analyst/consultant who’s not afraid to express himself. The Station caught his act this morning at the Storage Decisions conference here at the San Francisco Hilton, the first time the East-Coast-based show has been held […]

SAN FRANCISCO-Sun Microsystems, known within the storage industry for its industrial-strength rack-mount servers and digital tape machines, is embarking on a major new initiative aimed at boosting the company’s market share in the mainframe tape storage business. Sun, through its 2005 acquisition of StorageTek, has been running a fair-sized mainframe storage business for Fortune 200-scale […]

Our panel discussion on “Proven Strategies for Improving Efficiency and Cutting Energy Costs in Your Data Center” at the Emerson Network Power AdaptiveXchange Conference 2007 here in Baltimore went well yesterday, but we had a tough crowd to impress. Especially with a little humor. Oh, the several hundred IT managers in the vast Baltimore Conventional […]

Over the past 13 years as CEO of Network Appliance, Dan Warmenhoven has overseen the company’s growth from a small startup to one of the key players in the highly competitive data storage market. Warmenhoven recently sat down with eWEEK Senior Writer Chris Preimesberger to talk about NetApp’s past and future. Congratulations on your 13th […]

The Station isn’t exactly stationary this week. We’ve been on the road in Las Vegas at the Gartner Data Center 2007 Conference at the immense MGM Grand. We’ve broken a couple of news stories (“Novell Ships First Real-Time SUSE Linux” and “Sun, IBM Prep OpenSolaris for z System Mainframes”) and heard one or two good […]

LAS VEGAS-IBM and Sun Microsystems are in the final stages of an 18-month-long project to adapt the OpenSolaris operating system to run optimally on Big Blue’s z System mainframes. David Boyes, president and chief technology officer of Sine Nomine Associates, an Ashburn, Va.-based consultancy that handled most of the integration and migration duties, told eWEEK […]

LAS VEGAS—Novell is shipping the first real-time SUSE Linux enterprise data center operating system, SUSE Linux Enterprise Real Time 10. Novell, most recognized for its Linux desktop business, announced SLERT Nov. 27 at the Gartner Data Center Conference here. SLERT is the high-end—and significantly higher-priced—version of Novells open-source real-time operating system for running high-performance, time-sensitive […]