Chris Preimesberger

Twitter reversed its field July 31 and reinstated U.K. journalist Guy Adams’ account one day after it banned him for tweeting the business email address of the president of NBC Sports. Guy Adams, a Los Angeles-based correspondent for the Fleet Street newspaper The Independent, had used Twitter to be critical of the network’s often-lengthy time […]

Google’s Nexus Q, the futuristic-looking, globe-shaped media streaming device that the company introduced June 27 along with the Nexus 7 tablet, is not shipping on the schedule the company originally planned. In fact, the ship schedule has been postponed indefinitely. Nexus Q units were supposed to start moving to customers two weeks ago. The giant […]

Flexibility in Collocation Facilities Many collocation facilities are continually seeking faster and cheaper ways to “step and repeat” computer power and support systems for their customers. As the saying goes, “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.” This is especially applicable to businesses rolling out collocation facilities for their growing IT needs. Rather than redesigning […]

Box just keeps packing away piles of venture capital money. The online storage and enterprise collaboration tool provider revealed July 31 that it has landed a jaw-dropping new $125 million investment, which includes $100 million from global growth investor General Atlantic. This amounts to a Series E funding round. Last October, the Los Altos, Calif.-based […]

All you NetApp shops, take heed: PCIe device maker Fusion-io and your favorite storage company are working together to provide server-side flash and caching software products that will run on NetApp’s new Virtual Storage Tier. The two companies are collaborating to produce low-latency, high-performance compatibility connectors between the Fusion ioMemory platform and NetApp’s Data ONTAP […]

Xsigo, one of the first companies to virtualize and accelerate data streams to make IT systems more efficient, made its exit from the privately held enterprise world July 30 when Oracle acquired it for an unspecified sum of money and stock. Xsigo, based in Sunnyvale, Calif., spent three years in R&D and launched in September […]

Can Facebook, a mere 8 years old on the calendar but a middle-ager in Internet time, continue to create new products that will become effective revenue-generators in the future? That’s exactly what nervous investors are wondering, especially after seeing the company’s first quarterly earnings report last week and watching their stock price zoom downhill like […]

Cant Ignore this Issue Ignorance isn’t bliss with BYOD. If you fail to put a strategy in place for managing mobile devices, employees will still use devices on the network. But by investing in tools to gain proper visibility, governance and control, IT can work with what employees want while improving network performance. Bottom line: […]

eWEEK asked Salesforce.com founder and CEO Marc Benioff last summer about his approach to arming his employees with the right tools to do the job. “Interesting you should ask that,” he said. “We just bought 2,000 iPads for our sales people the other day. New people we hire out of college now just expect to […]

Midmarket storage software maker STORServer said July 25 that it is now providing licenses to back up VMware virtual environment data alongside standard data stores. STORServer Virtual Machine Backup provides the VM backup using a new interface that the company claims is intuitive enough for line-of-business employees to deploy effectively. STORServer, which uses IBM’s Tivoli […]

Shockingly, the Ponemon Institute recently reported that over the past two years, 70 percent of the world’s companies have traced the loss of sensitive business information to portable USB flash memory sticks. A third of those businesses reacted by locking down or disabling all of their USB ports so that USB storage solutions could not […]

Following Facebook’s fumbled initial public offering in May, Wall Street’s expectations for the social network’s first quarterly earnings report weren’t all that demanding, so Facebook and its investors breathed a sigh of relief July 26 when it released its first public numbers. That was because the Menlo Park, Calif.-based social network brought in revenue of […]