Chris Preimesberger

It was only a generation ago that an AT&T Bell System monopoly—which had stifled telecommunication innovation for 40 years because it set the standards and brooked no competition—stymied development in telecommunications. It held that monopoly until it was broken by MCI Communications in the 1970s. Then came the historic antitrust litigation that eventually led to […]

Updating and Maintaining a Server Farm When data center managers need to apply software updates or patches across a large number of servers, the order in which these are applied is critical to avoid costly downtime. Business process management can be used to choreograph this delicate dance in which the order of operations is important. […]

Network-attached storage maker Drobo revealed this week that in aggregate, its customers have purchased and deployed more than an exabyte of storage using its systems. An exabyte represents a long string of zeros; it amounts to 1,000 petabytes, or 1 million terabytes, or 1 billion gigabytes or the equivalent of 245 million DVDs. Since its […]

For all those enterprise IT aficionados who were wondering what former VMware CEO Paul Maritz has been doing the last seven months as the ostensible CEO-in-waiting at EMC, well, now you know. Maritz, who was given the rather generic title of “technology strategist” when he resigned at VMware in August 2012 after a highly successful […]

Cloud Adoption Is Moving Faster Than Expected The use of virtualized environments and private clouds to maximize resource utilization is happening faster than most industry experts had expected. These infrastructures are becoming very pervasive in data centers today. Power-Usage Standards Quickly Developing The power consumed by servers, storage and networking equipment is becoming an increasingly […]

It had to happen at some point: Someone has come out with a branded “cloud computer.” Never mind that basically all computers, including servers, smartphones, tablets—even smartwatches—already are cloud-access devices. They’re just not named “cloud computers.” The company that created this data center rack-type device is Mountain View, Calif.-based startup Nebula, which has been working […]

Online file backup provider Carbonite, which made its reputation backing up consumer PCs but is steadily expanding into the small and midsize business market, revealed April 1 that it is making its Database Backup product available for online backup reseller partners to offer to their small-business clients. Using Carbonite Database Backup along with the company’s […]

REDWOOD CITY, Calif.—As far as Oracle’s senior vice president, John Fowler, is concerned, the message the company sent at the March 26 launch of two new enterprise servers is simple: “It’s not that complicated. Our servers just got bigger, faster, better. And they will cost less.” Well, those claims may or may not be true […]

A little Austin, Texas-based company, Gravitant, recently featured here in eWEEK Innovation, has landed a big-fish customer: General Dynamics Information Technology. GDIT is a key provider of IT services to government customers. It will use Gravitant’s cloudMatrix service brokerage platform in a series of new offerings that will allow governmental entities to acquire and employ […]

Oracle, which picked up cloud management specialist Nimbula on March 15, added another company to its collection March 25 by acquiring mobile broadband service provider Tekelec. The terms of the deal weren’t released.Privately held Tekelec, based in North Carolina, makes software that helps admins control the flow of data through networks–wired or unwired. This is […]

Globalpress Connection, an international service that connects members of the trade and mainstream media members with corporations to enable better understanding of industry news, is staging a media conference of Silicon Valley in April.On the first day, the delegation, which will consist of more than 40 reporters from all over the world, will hear Stanford […]

Enhanced Disaster Recovery to the Cloud Disaster Recover to the Cloud with VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM) gives customers the benefits of SRM without the need for a secondary data center for failover protection. By partnering with a VMware certified cloud service provider, customers now have a cost-efficient (pay-per-use), automated (automatic failover and failback) and […]