Chris Preimesberger

SAP’s got a hot new in-memory database with analytics, and Amazon Web Services has the cloud to make it widely available as a service, so it’s a natural that the two IT companies announced Oct. 16 that they have gone into business together. At SAP’s TechEd 2012 conference, being held through Oct. 19 in Las […]

Check Out the Landscape Any size company can put together a successful iPad or Android tablet deployment and make it secure. But the company culture needs to be receptive. If you have an older staff, it might take a bit more time to get people to switch over to using iPads. On the other hand, […]

Microsoft has been making storage news for most of the past year, with the launch of the updated SkyDrive cloud storage service, a deal with Symantec to provide cloud-based disaster recovery, and the upcoming Windows 8 release, which will include new storage-related features. The clear message here: Microsoft, knowing that key parts of its business […]

Bigger, better, less-power-hungry and supposedly faster. That’s where all storage systems have been going for years, but the “faster” part always depends upon factors that may be out of the control of the controller, so to speak. The jury’s always out until the workload is actually in process. But at least one storage provider is […]

Hybrid Cloud Symmetry for PaaS This can be accomplished by either partnering with leading private platform as a service vendors or by releasing some parts of Azure on-premises. True hybrid cloud ensures that functionality in both the public and private components of the hybrid cloud are equal. Given that Azure is a public cloud only, […]

High-performance server and storage maker SGI and NoSQL database provider MarkLogic, joining forces to compete against the likes of Oracle, IBM and SAP, have come up with a new big data-optimized storage analytics package. The SGI DataRaptor server housing a MarkLogic parallel database, released Oct. 15, is a preconfigured, open-standards combination designed to make it […]

Ground Zero for HP’s Workstation Business Hewlett-Packard’s Fort Collins, Colo., location was established in February 1977. Jim Zafarana, vice president and general manager for HP’s Commercial Solutions Business Unit (a 27-year HP employee), and Director of Workstation Engineering Ron Rogers (a 30-year HP employee) are typical members of the veteran management here, most of whom […]

Dell and its new in-house virtual desktop supplier, Wyse, on Oct. 9 introduced some new and upgraded cloud client computing packages optimized expressly for VMware shops. The company made the announcement at VMworld Europe 2012, which continues through Oct. 11 in Barcelona, Spain. Virtual desktop implementations have come a long, long way in terms of […]

If you thought VMware already had a full-fledged cloud management product in the market, well, it didn’t — until now, that is. Basically everything VMware makes has a cloud-system connection, but the world’s largest virtualization software maker never had a complete cloud operations suite until it launched vCloud Suite on Oct. 9 at VMworld Europe […]

Data center management industry association AFCOM announced that it selected longtime data manager Tom Roberts, a 30-year veteran of the data center industry, as its new president. The announcement was made at the association’s fall Data Center World conference last week in Nashville, Tenn. Roberts’ new responsibilities will include the growth and continual improvement of […]

Cloud-service newcomer Koupon Media Oct. 8 launched a cloud-based digital campaign management platform for retailers, enabling them to organize, manage and analyze their own digital coupon advertising initiatives. The VC-funded company, founded in 2011 and based in Frisco, Texas, also announced that it is the first business-to-business digital-offers platform to be integrated into Passbook. Passbook […]

Rather than simply sending out yet another press release, Symantec is telling its data protection story through a new video that definitely catches some attention. On it, the data security and storage company dumps a rack containing a few servers off a tall office building (about 20 stories high) in Silicon Valley. Cameras catch the […]