Chris Preimesberger

Data storage and protection provider Acronis on May 27 released a new version of its disk management and data manipulation product for Windows PCs. Acronis Disk Director 12 provides a list of features that help users organize their PC hard drives for high performance. It also protects and secures data via multiple volumes on a […]

10 Reasons Cloud-Service Brokerages Are Seeing Solid Growth by Chris Preimesberger Ease of Use Growth in competition is leaving organizations managing multiple services from multiple vendors and, consequently, multiple registration, billing, provisioning, security, administration, support and licensing requirements. The complexity of having to manage all this on your own can be overwhelming for IT departments […]

10 Growth Opportunities IT Service Providers Need to Know by Chris Preimesberger Growing Demand From hiring to revenue, there will be increases in the ITSP industry throughout 2014. What’s driving demand? Sixty-five percent of respondents said new client requests, followed by the need for new skills and geographic expansion. ITSPs need to be prepared to […]

LAGUNA BEACH, Calif.—Not too many people would know or remember this, but Vint Cerf is one who does: May 2014 marks the 40th anniversary of the first publication of the description of what we know today as the Internet. In September 1973, Cerf and a colleague, Robert Kahn, wrote a paper, “A Protocol for Packet […]

LAGUNA BEACH, Calif.—Seven months after Dell Inc. returned to private ownership following a hard-fought $25 billion stock buyout and 25 years on the NASDAQ index, Michael Saul Dell said he loves the feeling of his namesake enterprise being private again. No longer do the CEO and his leadership team have to worry about contentious stockholder […]

Salesforce.com on May 22 launched its Salesforce1 Mobile App, designed to help users run their entire business from a smartphone.The iOS, Android and browser app includes about 30 features that enable users to sell, service, market and manage any business process from any mobile device.Users also will be able to access the Salesforce1 Mobile App […]

Toshiba’s Irvine, Calif.-based storage division on May 22 announced the availability of its new MC Series, the company’s first high-capacity enterprise hard-disk drive for bulk storage systems and servers running cloud-based applications and scale-out workloads. The MC Series drives come in a 3.5-inch form factor and can hold up to 5TB of storage with 7,200-rpm […]

Storage companies like to talk about how their systems scale up or scale out, but few claim to be able to do both. New-gen all-flash storage provider Kaminario says it is one of the few. For the record, “scale up” in storage-speak means that a single array can add capacity without adding more hardware while […]

Cisco Systems CEO and Chairman John Chambers, attending his 23rd of 25 Cisco Live conferences, stuck to his script May 19 in his Day 1 opening keynote, setting the stage for the three-day event and defining his company’s role as a key developer of the Internet of things. Only the previous day, Chambers had made […]

Accenture, one of the world’s largest IT integrators, obviously believes there is significant value in providing professional services for installing and integrating Oracle’s big, powerful and expensive Exadata database rack servers into existing enterprise systems. Dallas-based Accenture on May 19 revealed that it has agreed to acquire neighboring Enkitec, a longtime high-level Oracle partner and […]

Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg, who turned the Big Three-Oh on May 14, has been a cultural and business icon for the better part of a decade, or nearly one-third of his lifetime. You already may be aware of some of the milestones and accomplishments this New York native and current Palo Alto, Calif., resident has […]

IT people in the know already realize that solid-state NAND flash-based storage is in the process of displacing hard-disk drives as the standard in the enterprise data storage industry. This changeover is gaining momentum despite the fact that NAND flash generally has represented a higher up-front cost and a disruption in data center business as […]