Chris Preimesberger

I don’t know how in the world she expected to get away with something like this, since the paper and digital trail is so well-policed, but she did it anyway. Why it took four years to track down is another question. The San Francisco Chronicle reported Oct. 18 that the former travel manager for storage […]

DALLAS—Microsoft is on course to improve its share of the storage market that has long been dominated by EMC, Hewlett-Packard, NetApp and others, said Ted Kummert, corporate vice president of Microsofts Data and Storage Platform Division, speaking Oct. 17 at Storage Networking World here. Microsoft has already proved itself as the “general platform for all […]

It’s hardly a scientific study, but there may be something to this. Rick Villars, esteemed veteran storage analyst over at IDC, has been polling people informally to ask how much disk storage they have at home. He’s talking spinning disk storage–no Tivos, optical disks or tape. Things that would count here: desktops, laptops, adjunct storage […]

The Storage Networking Industry Association, host of this week’s Storage Networking World conference in Dallas, has revealed its 2008 Board of Directors as voted upon by its membership. “As we celebrate the SNIA’s 10-year anniversary and an expansion of our mission and vision to empower organizations in the management of information, we have established a […]

DALLAS — On Oct. 24, an older company (20-year veteran Remote Backup Systems of Memphis, Tenn.) will introduce a brand-new software product that can back up and maintain the integrity of a Web site’s HTML. Founder and CEO Rob Cosgrove claims that RBS is the world’s oldest online backup company (“We started out using telephones […]

DALLAS—The Storage Networking Industry Association is joining a growing number of eco-conscious organizations with the formation of its own green IT program, which will be dedicated to advancing energy efficiency and conservation in all networked storage technologies. The scope of work for the SNIA Green Storage Initiative, announced Oct. 15 at the Storage Networking World […]

DALLAS — If you’re going to start a new storage blog, you might as well have it originate from one of the biggest data storage conferences in the world — Storage Networking World, being held this week at the massive Gaylord Texan resort here on the lovely shore of Lake Grapevine. So that’s what we’re […]

Hitachi Data Systems, best known for shipping high-end data center storage systems to large enterprises such as Boeing Aircraft, Disney-ABC, and others, is looking to expand its reach. The Santa Clara, Calif., storage maker on Oct. 15 launched its new Windows-based Simple Modular Storage product line, its first system aimed squarely at the mass market […]

Energy -Efficient”> Andrew Fanara is in a great position. As director of the Energy Star Product Specifications Development Team for the Environmental Protection Agency, the Seattle-based Fanara is, in effect, the EPAs chief evangelist to the server manufacturing industry. Thus, he is charged with getting everybody to agree that we all need to save electrical […]

Like people, jobs and most other things on Earth, data centers evolve. And, as they are modernized, some things are improved more than others. In an IT era of ever-more-powerful data servers and storage machines, Georgia State Universitys cutting-edge data center is a real-world example of change for the better. Here is a data center […]