Chris Preimesberger

Nexenta Systems, which has been doing software-defined storage since before the industry heard the term, has a lot going on this week. In addition to Nexenta’s hiring a new CEO, Mark Lockareff, and its former CEO Evan Powell moving to the new position of chief strategy officer, the Mountain View, Calif.-based company revealed Feb. 27 […]

After sitting on the once-highly valuable intellectual property for nearly two years, Hewlett-Packard has finally divested itself of webOS, the orphaned mobile operating system that it is basically giving away to South Korea’s LG Electronics. In a joint announcement Feb. 25 with LG, which has been highly profitable in making Android smartphones for the last […]

Manage Power Directly From Any Major Virtualization Platform The latest systems integrate closely with leading virtualization platforms to significantly ease the complexities of keeping critical applications continuously available. This integration enables technicians to monitor and administer not only physical and virtual servers but UPSes and other power devices through a single interface. It also records […]

Hewlett-Packard fared better than it had feared it would in its first-quarter earnings results, so Feb. 21 was a good day for the Palo Alto, Calif.-based IT giant. With more than $1 billion in net earnings each quarter, HP is still a very profitable IT company, just not as supremely profitable as it has been […]

SANTA CLARA, Calif. — VCE, a virtualized systems startup founded and backed by four of the most successful IT companies in the business, has billion-dollar views of the IT world: literally from its 12th-floor Silicon Valley offices and figuratively with its boardroom strategy plans. Not only does the young company’s Santa Clara office—located across the […]

SUNNYVALE, Calif. — NetApp, in a global media event Feb. 19, added significantly to its NAND flash-based storage system lineup by unveiling its first all-solid-state array, a new Flash accelerator for servers, and a future new storage line coming out in 2014. The world’s second-largest independent IT storage provider, which has made its reputation on […]

Facebook revealed Feb. 15 in a blog post that it was hit by a sophisticated hacker attack last month but that no user data was lost or stolen. This attack occurred when a handful of the social network’s employees visited a mobile developer Website that was compromised, the company reported. “The compromised Website hosted an […]

Dealing With the Half Life of Data Value Businesses need to move fast. As soon as data enters an organization, its half life begins. Data is more valuable in real time and its value diminishes over time until it becomes obsolete and irrelevant. With in-memory IT, data can be processed and stored in real-time, giving […]

Storage: Enterprise Systems Become More, Not Less, Confusing This is the year that people start building storage hardware from off-the-shelf, high-performance flash storage devices. This is the problem that NetApp and EMC tackled with spinning disks in the ’90s. But flash devices are so fast that the software architectures invented back then don’t work anymore. […]

Exploding Amounts of Data Mobile devices and high-bandwidth demands have pushed networks to the brink and carriers face higher pressures to deliver a smooth, latency-free customer experience. Frustrations and customer service issues can arise much quicker in the mobile realm as users rely more on cloud-based applications. Proper network strategies to ensure resilience and uninterrupted […]

As data centers get refreshed, virtualization management of private clouds can get complicated in heterogeneous systems. As a result, the multi-hypervisor management micro-sector is earning more attention lately. HotLink, which specializes in this, recently updated its frontline product, HotLink SuperVISOR for VMware vCenter by including new automation capabilities. In addition, HotLink has released a free […]

Yahoo revealed a hint about upgrading its mobile app strategy Feb. 12 when Yelp-like consumer application Alike announced in a blog post that it is being acquired to join the search engine’s Mobile team. Terms of the deal were not released. Alike enables users to recommend nearby businesses as their favorites, similar to Yelp and […]