Chris Preimesberger

Intel on Jan. 17 said that it reached its expected business goals for fiscal year 2012, reporting full-year revenue of $53.3 billion, $11 billion in profit and earnings per share of $2.13. The revenue total was down 1 percent from 2011. Gross margins were exemplary at 62 percent, although the company forecast a drop to […]

Emerson Network Power, which is moving into new sectors to augment its bread-and-butter UPS business, on Jan. 16 commissioned a new dedicated group to serve the IT needs of enterprises with massive data centers. Dubbed the Hyperscale Solutions Team, this new division will utilize Emerson’s expertise and resources across the data center ecosystem to serve […]

Priority No. 1: Upgrade Current Infrastructure Data center physical infrastructure is the foundation of IT and telecommunication networks. It is the backbone of the business, and data center infrastructure should be optimized to address security, virtualization and other priorities properly. Priority No. 2: Increase Use of Virtualization In Dell’s global survey of 2,362 midmarket executives, […]

MENLO PARK, Calif. — Facebook on Jan. 15 introduced a real-time search mechanism it calls Graph Search, which enables users to quickly find content they have touched at some point in their Facebook lifetimes. This is not your typical Google, Bing or Yahoo search, which gathers up thousands or millions of links and simply presents […]

Cloud storage and automated backup provider Sterling Data Storage, which is carving out a niche in the Web hosting sector, on Jan. 14 launched three new cloud backup services for small and midsize enterprises in that burgeoning market. Scottsdale, Ariz.-based Sterling makes software-as-a-service-based (SaaS-based) backup and disaster recovery software for Windows, Linux and iOS systems. […]

German enterprise software maker SAP is truly betting the farm on a 2-year-old: its in-memory database, HANA. In a global press event Jan. 10, SAP announced that its customers now have the option of deploying HANA as the foundation for its frontline SAP Business Suite. HANA (High-Performance Analytic Appliance), a column-oriented, in-memory database appliance, can […]

eWEEK is moving into some new-media interactive events, and you are invited to participate. On Wednesday, Jan. 16 at 11 a.m. Pacific Standard Time/2 p.m. Eastern Standard Time/7 p.m. Greenwich Mean Time, eWEEKnews will host its first Tweetchat event. The topic will be “Big Data Analytics in the Cloud: Is the Future Now?” It will […]

eWEEK is moving into some new-media interactive events, and you are invited to participate. On Wednesday, Jan. 16 at 11 a.m. Pacific Standard Time/2 p.m. Eastern Standard Time, eWEEKnews will host its first Tweetchat event. The topic will be “Big Data Analytics in the Cloud: Is the Future Now?” It will be moderated by yours […]

Nearly 200,000 Attendees Expected This Year Along with the rest of the global macro economy, the International Consumer Electronics Show has suffered a bit in recent years, but not in 2013. Hallways were elbow-to-elbow and all the pavilions were loaded with companies showing off their wares. Ford Shows 2014 Connected Fiesta The auto companies have […]

Servers Require More—and More Specific—Security When it comes to securing these two types of systems, more broad-based policies and controls can be applied to laptops. However, servers require specific policies and controls based on the data, application functions or the environment in which it resides. Servers by nature are set at “default deny.” However, laptops […]

LAS VEGAS — Storage software developer Dot Hill has made the engine for Hewlett-Packard’s entry-level MSA 2000 arrays for a number of years. However, as is the nature of the business for OEMs, it hasn’t received enough of the credit for all that intellectual property it has created. That is all changing. Although it still […]

LAS VEGAS — Toshiba America’s Electronic Components division on Jan. 6 launched four new 2.5-inch Serial ATA (SATA) drives embedded with cryptographic-erase and self-encrypting features for both enterprise and mobile storage devices. The announcement was made on Day 1 of the Storage Visions 2013 conference at the Riviera Convention Center in Las Vegas. Two of […]