Chris Preimesberger

EMCs storage infrastructure juggernaut racked up its 17th consecutive quarter of double-digit top-line growth in its third-quarter earnings report issued Oct. 25. The Hopkinton, Mass.-based company reported its highest all-time third-quarter revenue and net income of $492.9 million, a 74 percent improvement over 2006. Total consolidated revenue for the third quarter of 2007 was $3.3 […]

Fifty days after Network Appliance filed a lawsuit Sept. 5 against Sun Microsystems seeking damages and a permanent injunction, claiming Sun infringed on several patents regarding NetApp’s home-grown WAFL file system, Sun filed a countersuit. NetApp claims Sun’s ZFS (Zettabyte File System), which is included in Sun’s Unix-derived Solaris operating system, is patterned directly after […]

The Southern California wildfires, which have forced more than half a million people to evacuate their homes in the last several days, have been a proving ground for the efficiency of emergency communication services. People in the fires path have been relying on everyday communication services such as VOIP (voice over IP) and cell phones […]

IBM on Oct. 24 announced that it will acquire NovusCG, a storage-focused IT software and services company based in Manassas, Va. As is common in transactions involving privately held companies, financial terms were not disclosed. NovusCG (Novus Consulting Group) was founded in 2000 and has about 100 employees. The company uses its own professional services […]

IBM is rolling out an extensive refresh of its main storage product lines. Big Blue Oct. 23 introduced a new release for its flagship enterprise disk storage system, new and enhanced storage virtualization products for disk and tape storage, and improvements to lower-end disk and tape storage packages for small and midsize businesses. “This is […]

A gleaming new state-of-the-art data center, the Schneider Electric Technology Center in St. Louis, officially will turn on the current this evening (Oct. 23), with the blessings of the Green Grid Consortium and the Environmental Protection Agency’s Energy Star program. Green Grid representative John Tuccillo, Andrew Fanara of the Energy Star program and Andy Karsnar, […]

The National League champion Colorado Rockies ticket sales Web site is back up and running and briskly dealing World Series seats after an external malicious attack shut down the system. “We sold more than 50,000 tickets today over 2½ hours,” Rockies Media Relations Manager Jay Alves told eWEEK. The Rockies are limiting sales to four […]

Maybe the term “flashtops”—which The Station coined more than a year ago—will finally catch on now. I expect that when these ultra-thin (three-quarter-inch thick), ultra-light (2 pounds) and power-saving solid-state notebook PCs start selling in volume, the term will become commonly used. And since the prices are just beginning to come down, it looks as […]

There’s nothing like making a phone call, listening to a favorite MP3, then checking your company’s storage capacity — all on the same handheld unit. In this case, it’s an iPhone. Aptare’s personable CEO, Rick Clark, showed The Station one of the more interesting demos at this week’s Storage Networking World conference in Dallas. Aptare, […]

Fujitsu Computer Systems is the latest top-tier vendor to enter the low-end storage wars by introducing a new storage area network for that mass market. The Sunnyvale, Calif., company’s dual-controller-based Eternus 2000 SAN, launched Oct. 17 at Storage Networking World in Dallas, is targeted at small and midsize data centers that struggle with cost and […]