Chris Preimesberger

Don’t mess with Apple about the curves on the corners of its smartphones. Oh, and if you’re an Android developer, God forbid if you try and copy the Bounce. Those are only two of myriad intellectual property messages that came out Aug. 24. That was when a federal court jury in San Jose, Calif. decided […]

Toshiba’s storage products business unit expanded its enterprise solid-state-drive lineup Aug. 21 with three new models aimed at high-performance use cases. The Japanese drive maker launched its PX-Series, designed for servers that take the most pounding each day: boot, read-intensive, entry level servers; entry-to-midrange application servers; and high-performance enterprise application servers. Toshiba, which in 2012 […]

Hewlett-Packard, which has always put a heavy emphasis on selling servers, personal computers, printers and other IT hardware as competitors have moved away from those items, continues to feel the pressure for maintaining this strategy. Whether that pressure lessens or increases in the next few quarters is something only time will tell, but at the […]

Since 2007, when Michael Dell returned as CEO from his chairman of the board position, Dell has been buying companies to bring new software and services into its domain in order to become a full-service IT hardware and software company. Now it is in full swing fine-tuning those products and how they relate to each […]

On-Site Labor Moves to SLAs Cloud systems and services push outsourcers to move away from labor arbitrage to becoming IT consultants or partners. The cloud also shifts customer focus away from staffing to service-level agreements (SLAs). With IT systems providing a more cost-effective solution than any outsourced labor force, the outsourcers need to demonstrate higher […]

The shadowy cottage industry of companies paying bloggers to advocate for them suddenly has its slip showing. A week ago, the San Jose, Calif. federal court that heard Oracle’s recent lawsuit against Google alleging that the huge search company infringed upon its Java patents to build its Android mobile device operating system issued an order […]

PRINEVILLE, Ore. — In the midst of the wide open spaces of farm and grazing land surrounding this central Oregon town of 9,253 has been born a new type of farm: one that produces Web services that interconnect people. And like horses, cows and sheep on the grasslands, this one also requires water, fresh air […]

A Modest Sign of the IT Times A modest sign with Facebook’s simple logo at the corner of a large parcel outside Prineville, in north central Oregon, is the only indication that the huge social network has a presence in the area. Putting the Power Usage Effectiveness Out There for All to See Most data […]

Cisco Systems revealed Aug. 15 in its quarterly and fiscal year financial report that its cloud-system data center business is taking off, its legacy router and switching divisions are basically flat, and its highly touted TelePresence video conference business has fallen off. The world’s largest IT networking company reported earnings and revenue that generally were […]

Newcomer Boundary has found its own way to bring baked-in business intelligence and analytics to the monitoring of data center systems–and in a real-time cloud service. The San Francisco-based startup, which launched in April, on Aug. 14 announced several updates to its platform, including a freemium version and predefined integrations for both Amazon Elastic Compute […]

Skyera, a startup that has developed some of the densest all-NAND flash storage arrays on the planet, on Aug. 14 launched its Skyhawk series of enterprise systems based on low-cost, consumer-grade 19/20-nanometer multi-level cell (MLC) NAND flash. Skyera’s compact half-depth form factor sports a whopping 44TB of high-performance per 1U unit. Now that is what […]

Hard to believe that Microsoft’s cloud storage service, SkyDrive, came out of beta testing way back in 2008, yet it is just starting to get some significant media attention the last 12 months or so. It took some time to get out the bugs and earn consumer loyalty over such trusted early cloud storage movers […]