Chris Preimesberger

Apple’s slam-bang launch of its iPad Mini tablet and some new Mac computers two days ago was tempered somewhat Oct. 25 by the company’s quarterly earnings report, which came in under Wall Street projections, along with an outlook that fell shy of its own estimates. Apple, the world’s most valuable company by market capital, earned […]

Data storage and security provider EMC still is piling up consecutive profitable quarters, but its double-digit profitability days are behind it—at least for the time being. The Hopkinton, Mass.-based company reported Oct. 24 that its third-quarter net income totaled $626.3 million, up 3 percent from the year-ago period. Revenue increased 6 percent to $5.28 billion […]

Facebook, which had been slogging along since its May public offering with an underperforming stock price, had reason to be optimistic Oct. 23 when it reported better-than-expected third-quarter earnings. Revenue showed adjusted earnings of 12 cents per share on revenue of $1.262 billion, up a solid 32 percent from the same period in 2011, a […]

Virtualization software maker VMware filed its third-quarter 2012 earnings report Oct. 23, showing solidly increased revenue but also profit margins that dropped slightly While the key numbers exceeded Wall Street estimates, the company also said it expects a slowing of revenue growth over the next few months. Revenue rose 20 percent to $1.13 billion from […]

Welcome to the World, Mini! Attendees at Apple’s launch of the iPad Mini got to try out the little tablet for the first time upstairs at the California Theatre in downtown San Jose, Calif. The last time the 85-year-old venue was used for an Apple launch was back in 2006, when the company launched the […]

So Apple is set to launch its iPad Mini Oct. 23 at 10 a.m. Pacific time at the old California Theatre in San Jose, Calif., a place rarely used for IT events. Seems a bit incongruent for a new IT device to be introduced to the world, but it’s hard to fault Apple on anything […]

To the surprise of no one in the know in the storage business, Hewlett-Packard didn’t make news Oct. 22 by stating in a 10-word email that its first-string solid-state storage strategy going forward will consist of its 3PAR storage line. “HP 3PAR is our strategic direction for solid-state storage,” HP’s statement to eWEEK, in its […]

Icon of the Animated Film Industry Founded in 1994, DreamWorks SKG has produced some of the most popular films in the world, including the “Shrek” series, the “Kung Fu Panda” and “Madagascar” series, and many more. Its two main studios are in Glendale and Redwood City, Calif. The company has a new studio in Bangalore, […]

Fujitsu, a very successful but old-school IT products company, has found a software provider that is helping it view storage in a whole new light. That would be Avere, whose storage cluster nodes bring management and I/O optimization capabilities previously unavailable at the Japanese company, which has joined with Fujitsu to put together an easy-to-remember […]

Iomega keeps cramming more and more capacity into its toaster-sized network storage machines for a desktop at home, at a small business, or at a corporate division office. Just when one thinks perhaps a limit is reached, the company comes out with an even more capacious device. This time it is the StorCenter px2 series […]

Identify the Sources of Data With the vast amount of irrelevant data floating around behind the firewall and across the Web today, it is more important than ever to take a good look at the sources of the data collected. This will ensure the data analyzed is indeed relevant to the business. Determine the Value […]

Your Cloud Workload Will Evolve as Applications Change Today you are running software as a service (SaaS) or infrastructure applications that stay resident in the provider cloud, often locked behind semi-proprietary architectures. This is a logical first implementation that’s common to most IT rollouts. The next step is also predictable: a turn to a more […]