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Why Smaller Media-Vendor Gatherings Work Best

LAS VEGAS -- The Station took a little detour in his regular data center/storage/virtualization/cloud computing/green IT beats and went to the Nevada desert to...

Silence Making People Nervous in Impending IBM-Sun Deal

There's been a Cone of Silence for a week now around the impending IBM acquisition of Sun Microsystems. When such a mystery takes place,...

SSD Slide Show Zooms Off Like a Saturn V

You never know what's going to tickle the readers' fancies here at eWEEK.Take today, for example: The Station put together a slide show on...

Sun Apparently Rejected Joint HP-Oracle Takeover Offer

So while the legalese continues to be smoothed out, sliced, diced and relegated to memory by IBM lawyers in the upcoming Big Blue acquisition...

Data Domain Moves to Quad-Core Chips for Controllers

Data deduplication specialist Data Domain March 23 became the latest storage vendor to announce the option of quad-core processors in its architecture for midrange...

IBM-Sun Merger Slowed Up for Due Diligence

The Wall Street Journal reported late March 20 that the IBM-Sun Microsystems merger has been held up for a few extra days due to...

Spirit of Steve Was Quite in Evidence at iPhone Hoo-haw

Since The Station covers enterprise software/hardware/services for eWEEK most of the time, we don't often get over to Cupertino to visit Apple. Yes, Apple...

Cisco and Partners Kept It All on a High, High Level

Today's Cisco Systems press/analyst conference in San Jose to launch the company's new Unified Computing System wasn't unlike a lot of other press events...

AFCOM’s Five Bold Predictions for the Data Center

Follow-up is a good thing, especially after one offers predictions. It shows boldness, candidness and strength of character—especially if the predictions are way off...

CeBIT: Simply Another Piazza — Only More So

HANNOVER, Germany—One of the truly charming features that many old European cities have is a central square, the place—usually near a basilica—where people congregate,...