Chris Preimesberger

Sun Microsystems and a major California power supplier, Pacific Gas & Electric, Aug. 15 announced an unusual joint incentive program that will give $700 to $1,000 per-unit rebates to Sun server customers for deploying newer machines that consume less electrical power. The Sun Fire T1000 and T2000 CoolThread servers—which Sun claims are three to five […]

SAN FRANCISCO—Upward of 10,000 IT- and open source-minded folks can be seen milling around the Moscone Center at the LinuxWorld Conference & Expo here through Aug. 17, and there is plenty of information about new products and services to keep their tongues wagging for a lot more than three days. Big companies like IBM, Novell, […]

Hewlett-Packard announced Aug. 15 that its portfolio of servers and server blades now will include a number of models powered by Advanced Micro Devices new Opteron dual-core processors. The Opteron-powered HP ProLiant and HP BladeSystem servers are designed to use less electrical power and require less cooling due to their advanced architecture, an HP spokesperson […]

SAN FRANCISCO—Apple Computers CEO Steve Jobs didnt state it quite this directly at the Aug. 7 opening of the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference here at Moscone Center West, but this much is clear: Apple has seriously upgraded its 1U, rack-mountable Xserve server line, and its installed base of graphics arts, animation rendering and video production […]

SAN JOSE, Calif.—The first Flash Memory Summit now is just that—a memory. A gathering of about 500 flash engineers, enthusiasts and entrepreneurs met at the Wyndham Hotel for three days here Aug. 8 to 10 to see colleagues, argue about the value of hard drives versus flash, learn about new uses for NAND flash, and […]

Sun Microsystems stayed within a clear trend in the data storage industry Aug. 10 by introducing two new modular storage arrays that let users scale their existing capacity on the companys mid-range StorageTek 6920 and 6130 servers. Virtually all the major storage vendors–including Santa Clara, Calif.-based Sun–are investing substantial R&D and marketing dollars into trying […]

IBM and Pillar Data Systems release products in the data storage sector, while EMC shuffles its executives. IBM Unveils Yet Another New SMB Computing/Storage System IBM on Aug. 9 introduced another new business computing-plus-storage offering for small and midsized businesses, this one based on the companys standard System I base platform (server, database, storage, software […]

Its hard to think of normally heavy-duty data storage servers as something like “storage lite,” but IBM is giving it a serious go. Big Blue introduced a new entry-level storage product Aug. 8—System Storage DS4200 Express—designed to compete for SMB customers against similar offerings from EMC, NetApp, and Hewlett-Packard. System Storage DS4200 Express is aimed […]

Analysts say that the synergies between data storage equipment maker Brocade Communications Systems and rival McData—which Brocade said Aug. 8 it will acquire for $713 million in stock—are good and that the proposed merger should eventually bode well for both companies. Brocade executives told investors and analysts in a hastily arranged early-morning conference call that […]

SAN FRANCISCO—Steve Jobs was at his jovial best, and why not? The Apple CEO and co-founder had a slew of interesting new products to introduce, and he was preaching to a cheering choir of developers Aug. 7 at the opening of Apple Computers Worldwide Developers Conference. With a record 4,200 choristers in attendance here at […]