Chris Preimesberger

NAND flash, slowly but surely making headway to become a dominant force in data storage, has always had a close personal relationship with dynamic RAM (DRAM), but it’s never been confused as to be one and the same. Now the waters are being muddied in this regard. Ottawa-based Diablo Technologies has found a way to […]

Cisco Systems and one of its frontline storage partners, NetApp, said July 30 that they have updated their co-developed FlexPod data center system–which is based on Cisco’s Unified Computing System–to work for specific use cases.FlexPod, which uses NetApp storage arrays to go with Cisco servers and networking, is designed for heavy-duty cloud computing workloads involving […]

Software-defined networking became a commonly used IT buzzword about four years ago, following its origins at Stanford University around 2005. The concept of software-defined storage–which at this point is more of a marketing term than anything else–has been picking up momentum for about the last year or so. We’re told that software-defined data centers are […]

Agile Analytics: What It Is, and 10 Best Practices for Using It by Chris Preimesberger Collaborate Across Business Communities Data warehousing and business intelligence systems will live in a diversity of environments, not just in the IT department. It’s important to treat business owners, technical experts, project managers and the many communities of users across […]

Denim Group, a secure application software consultancy, announced July 25 that the U.S. Department of Homeland Security has awarded its application vulnerability management platform ThreadFix with a major research grant to help further develop the technology. ThreadFix is an open-source tool designed to give security practitioners the ability to understand the security of their applications […]

Running Your On-Premise Cloud Like a Business: 10 Key Steps to Take by Chris Preimesberger Baseline Your Current Cost and Quality of Service Before you can justify any on-premises cloud initiative, you’ll need to first accurately determine your existing IT costs and consumption metrics. By benchmarking versus third-party cloud vendors and outsourcing options, you’ll establish […]

Facebook is beginning to reach its financial stride, reporting much-improved second-quarter revenue and profit July 24 and soundly out-flanking Wall Street analysts’ projections. The Menlo Park, Calif.-based social network recorded profit for the last three months of $333 million, or 13 cents per share. Revenue grew an impressive 53 percent to $1.8 billion, year over […]

July 24, 2013, was to be the day everybody connected with Dell finally found out as to whether the company would go private under the leadership of its founder or stay a public company. Good thing nobody held their breath. A small number of shareholders came to Round Rock, Texas, for the meeting, the day […]

On Wednesday, Aug. 14 at 11 a.m. PT/2 p.m. ET/7 p.m. GMT, @eWEEKnews will host its eighth Tweetchat event. The topic will be “Android vs. iOS: Pros and Cons of the Leading Mobile Systems.” It will be moderated by yours truly, who serves as eWEEK’s editor of features and analysis. Some quick facts: Topic: “Android […]

Apple, which hasn’t released a major new product for 10 months and only five secondary products in all of 2013—as opposed to a total of 24 products in 2012—reported its quarterly earnings July 23. The top-line numbers were flat, and they were generally aligned with Wall Street expectations. For the fiscal 2013 third quarter that […]

A no-nonsense startup that wasn’t afraid to name itself after exactly what it does, Low Power Company—otherwise known as Lopoco—has launched a new line of high-efficiency servers, which the company claims can save any enterprise more than half their data center operating costs. This is an astonishing claim when it comes to the real world. […]

Scary BYOD Data Protection Trends: 10 Common Problems by Chris Preimesberger Most Enterprises Have No Policy in Place Despite the continued onslaught of personal devices in the workplace as a result of BYOD trends, approximately 60 percent of companies still don’t have a BYOD policy in place. With employees often preferring to work on tablets, […]