Chris Preimesberger

Dell and EMC apparently are in merger talks, according to an Oct. 8 report in The Wall Street Journal. It’s early, and who knows yet what will happen. Dell has been reported to be talking to banks so it can raise $40 billion. That’s a lot for a $25 billion company. We know what you’re […]

Pure Storage, a rising star in solid-state NAND flash storage, doffed its cap at the plate for the first time on the New York Stock Exchange Oct. 7 — then struck out in its first at-bat in the majors. The company debuted at $17 per share but ended its first day at $16.01, down 5.8 […]

Amazon Web Services’ river was a torrent of news Oct. 7, which was Day 2 of its re:Invent 2015 conference at the Sands Conference Center at the Venetian Hotel in Las Vegas. From the keynote stage, Senior Vice President of Web Services Andy Jassy and his crew laid out news item after news item for […]

The Sushi Principle: Why Data Is Better Raw Than ‘Cooked’ Organizations often need to use data in a different way than originally planned. For flexibility and accuracy, they need fast access to data in its raw state. How Systems Are Currently Set Up Most data systems are made up of three systems: ETL (extract, transform […]

To the surprise of few people in the business, Twitter on Oct. 5 named interim chief executive and co-founder Jack Dorsey as its permanent CEO. They’re getting him for a good deal: zero salary. If the culture of a company starts at the top, that’s an interesting statement from the CEO. “There are currently no […]

In many ways, mostly legal, it’s certain that more than a few people at Hewlett-Packard now wish the company had never crossed paths with Autonomy. There must have been a less problematic big data analytics company to acquire, but they didn’t know it at the time. This is the one then-CEO Leo Apotheker, his staff […]

Off the top, you should know I’m a product reviewer who always takes a lot more time in doing research than most folks. I simply want to see the product perform in all kinds of situations — expected and unexpected — and over a period of time. After all, if you’re going to invest $1,200 […]

Facebook is adding some fun to its domain: As of Oct. 1, users of the social network can upload a looping video clip in place of a profile photo on its mobile app. Facebook made it clear that members will only be able to upload new profile movies in video format, not in GIF or […]

FalconStor Software, a longtime provider of storage management software, said Sept. 30 that it has licensed functionality from Cumulus Logic for a next-generation, cloud-based predictive analytics monitoring system for its FreeStor platform. FreeStor is a single, converged, hardware-agnostic data services platform that works horizontally across all heterogeneous storage hardware, including all-flash arrays, hybrid flash and […]

Big data and database platform provider MapR Technologies on Sept. 29 launched what it calls the IT industry’s first “in-Hadoop document database.” MapR has developed a popular distribution of the open-source Apache Hadoop that combines a few features that its competitors do not have: It integrates Web-scale enterprise storage and real-time database management and adds […]

Barracuda Networks, a longtime storage provider that used to be hardware first/software second, continues to evolve big time into the software-defined storage realm. We know this because the Campbell, Calif.-based company bought U.K.-based information management specialist C2C a year ago and then revealed Sept. 29 that it is acquiring data backup and protection expert Intronis. […]

Which Types of Workloads to Run in Public, Private Clouds Should you use a private or public cloud? Here are pros and cons for each mode when it comes to certain workloads. On-Demand Self-Service: Public Cloud Cloud consumers and administrators love being able to serve themselves. And for public cloud service providers, self-service isn’t an […]