Chris Preimesberger

NEW YORK—Add yet another special interest group to a growing cadre of teams focused on helping make data centers become more eco-friendly. The Business Performance Management Forum, in a partnership with storage vendor BlueArc, launched a program on Sept. 25 called Lean & Green: Reducing IT Energy Drain for Business Gain. Lean & Green, based […]

Sun Microsystems Sept. 25 introduced its first two Intel Quad-Core Xeon-powered servers, including a compact, four-socket x64 (x86, 64-bit) unit that the company claims has twice the scalability and compute power as competitive servers despite being only half the size. The new servers are the first products resulting from the agreement struck by Sun and […]

EMC will acquire Berkeley Data Systems, a small, Utah-based firm that offers subscription backup plans for free or as little as $3.95 per month, sources told eWEEK Sept. 24. Neither EMC nor Berkeley Data Systems would confirm the report, which was originally published by TechCrunchs Michael Arrington, but data storage industry sources, who asked not […]

Microsoft on Sept. 21 denied claims by hard drive industry executives and analysts that the worlds largest software company isnt providing optimized drivers for the new hybrid drives about to come into the market. “Microsoft certainly does provide drivers for hybrid hard drives in Vista,” Matt Ayers, program manager in the Windows Client Performance group […]

Vincent Franceschini is an ebullient man, and its a good thing. As chairman of the board of directors of the Storage Networking Industry Association, Franceschini is charged with being the head cheerleader for an organization that is rising in both credibility and visibility in the IT world. SNIA is a not-for-profit global organization of more […]

NEC on Sept. 18 launched a storage system with what it calls a “radical new approach” to data storage, claiming that it is the industrys first unified disk storage platform optimized for managing backup and archive data at the same time. NEC HYDRAstors HS-Series array grid storage system offers “unrestricted scalability, easy management and safe […]

SANTA CLARA, Calif.—Hybrid hard drives wont get traction in the marketplace unless Microsoft makes up its mind that it wants to support them with optimized drivers. The discussion came up at a luncheon meeting of HDD (hard disk drive) and SSD (solid state drive) company executives, journalists, analysts, and attendees of the IDEMA (International Disk […]

DALLAS-About 850 seasoned IT professionals who have worked their way up to taking in charge of a data center, or groups of data centers, are currently here at the Gaylord Texan hotel on the pretty shores of Lake Grapevine, trying to discover new ideas for how to make their companies IT more efficient. And, by […]

DALLAS—Mark Monroe has a simple solution for any data center manager, especially those new on the job who arent exactly sure which of the servers is hosting which application, and which people are using which application on certain servers. Its also an ecologically- and economically-friendly solution: Just shut them off, he says. “Yes, just shut […]

DALLAS—James Gosling, Sun Microsystems distinguished scientist and generally known as the father of Java, likes to call them “big hunk” servers. Some people call them Big Blues—since IBM builds most of them—while others describe them simply as room-size computers. But they are known best as mainframe computers, and, if you listen to at least one […]