Chris Preimesberger

MENLO PARK, Calif. — Facebook is much like the Starship Enterprise in that it likes to go to places no company has gone before. This is probably because not too many IT companies, especially young ones, have had to serve upwards of 950 million registered users — including a high percentage on a real-time basis […]

The five days of Sept. 10-14 was a newsy fall IT kickoff week here in blue-sky, 72-degree Silicon Valley. September is the real start of the year. Schools are back in session; new cars, football and television shows debut, and all the new IT devices begin to hit shelves for the holidays. Leading off the […]

Oracle, in an escalating battle with VMware in its effort to gain more control over virtualized IT systems, on Sept. 13 said it has upgraded its freely downloadable, open-source, cross-platform VM VirtualBox virtualization control package to make it more user-friendly. In updating its key data center virtualization control platform to v4.2, Oracle has added a […]

Touching on the Future Intel staff demonstrated these 27-inch high-performance touch-screen desktop computers from Hewlett-Packard, which are only about 1-inch thick and relatively lightweight. These devices—powered by new 22-nm Xeon chips—are aimed at graphic artists but also can be used in a number of ways, even for children’s educational apps. Musical Computers The same 27-inch […]

The iPhone 5 in All Its Glory Apple’s iPhone 5—no “S” required this time—got its first hands-on session from media type and analysts Sept. 12 at a launch event at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco. It is lighter, has a slightly longer screen, and is thinner and more functional than […]

SAN FRANCISCO — Facebook co-founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Sept. 11 made his first public appearance since May 19, the day his company went public in New York City and a couple days before he got married. The venue he chose was a one-on-one with TechCrunch blog founder Michael Arrington at the TechCrunch Disrupt […]

Workload Growth Will Drive PaaS Adoption The work isn’t getting any easier, nor are management expectations. Growing workloads will put greater pressure on IT departments to cut costs and deliver productivity gains. Cloud technology in the form of PaaS will provide the flexibility, control and efficiency that developers, IT managers and CIOs need to hit […]

SAN FRANCISCO — Intel, whose processors are firing away in 95 percent of all data centers, literally has been at the center of the data center world for generations. However, with all that power and influence in the silicon hardware sector, it has never been recognized by the general public — and Wall Street, for […]

From the Start: Dont Fight It  This is happening whether corporate IT wants it or not, so it’s smarter to start embracing it. A recent Cisco Systems-sponsored survey of 600 IT and business leaders found that 95 percent of companies allow employee-owned devices on the corporate network in some manner, with 36 percent saying […]

Curiously, the data storage hardware market continues its slow but steady income improvement each quarter, but the corresponding software sector seems to have leveled off, according to a major industry researcher. Figures released Sept. 11 from IDC’s Worldwide Storage Software QView show that the worldwide storage software market closed the second quarter 2012 higher than […]

Hewlett-Packard (HPQ), which is ramping up the largest employee layoff and buyout in its 73-year history, is trimming another 2,000 jobs above and beyond the 27,000 it said back on May 23 it would have to cut. In a Securities and Exchange Commission filing on Sept. 10, HP updated its workforce reduction to 29,000, spread […]

A year after it shelled out $11 billion for a virtually unknown data storage and management company from the U.K. called Autonomy, Hewlett-Packard believes it has found the right person to manage it. Former Microsoft executive Robert Youngjohns on Sept. 17 will take over as senior vice president and general manager of the Autonomy/Information Management […]