Chris Preimesberger

If Twitter thought it had an overload problem July 26, the day before the London Olympiad begins, just wait until the opening ceremonies start and all those photos of the Queen, Sting and Paul McCartney begin saturating the Internet. Slow responses or outages in the social messaging network for up to two hours were reported […]

Pro No. 1: Flexibility By definition, open-source clouds offer a higher degree of flexibility than their proprietary rivals. Rather than simply reading manuals or attending training sessions, customers can read and modify the code itself and participate in various projects by contributing software code, starting a related open-source project, providing documentation or holding free seminars. […]

Box knows where the markets are, and it also knows which partners with which to partner. The cloud-based storage and work collaboration service on July 24 announced its latest partnership deals–a second one with Microsoft and new one with Qualcomm. Box unveiled a new Box for Windows Phone app, which enables users to collaborate and […]

Symantec became the third major Silicon Valley IT corporation in 10 days to make a change at the top of its leadership July 25 when it replaced CEO Enrique Salem with board chairman Steve Bennett, himself a former CEO of Intuit. Yahoo named former Google Senior Vice President Marissa Mayer as its new CEO on […]

IT management software provider BMC, which also builds and manages clouds for service providers, said July 24 that it has upgraded its cloud system management package to include new and more granular administrative controls and capabilities. BMC has updated its Cloud Lifecycle Management to v3.0 and BMC Cloud Operations Management to v9.0. The company says […]

In addition to naming its board chairman, Steve Bennett, to replace Enrique Salem as CEO, data protection provider Symantec July 25 announced its fiscal Q1 2012 earnings report, which beat Wall Street projections. The company’s profit slipped 10 percent to $172 million from $191 million year-over-year, with revenue inching up about 1 percent to $1.67 […]

VMware is the server virtualization software king of the world and has been for several years. Could this young company–still a teenager, by the way, at 14–now be on its way to becoming the external network virtualization king as well? Think about it. With a single strategic move, one company now has the potential to […]

Apple reported in its fiscal third-quarter earnings statement July 24 that it brought in a record $35 billion and profited $8.8 billion, but hints of a sales slowdown of its iPhones next quarter raised red flags among Wall Street analysts. The quarterly profit worked out to a healthy $9.32 a share, but another fly in […]

For the 10th consecutive quarter, data storage and security provider EMC reported double-digit year-over-year growth for revenue and net income in its second-quarter 2012 filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. As a result, EMC said it expects to fulfill its full-year 2012 goals for consolidated revenue, non-GAAP (generally accepted accounting principles) earnings per share […]

Toshiba, which invented NAND flash back in the late 1980s, revealed July 24 that it is trimming its production of flash-memory chips for the first time in more than three years due to an overflow of inventory. Sales overall in NAND flash chips have been sluggish for the better part of 2012, as evidenced in […]

Attunity said July 23 that it has partnered with Amazon Web Services to enable big data availability for analytics, specifically to the AWS cloud. The Burlington, Vt.-based company has released CloudBeam, software as a service (SaaS) designed to move large data sets in, out and across AWS cloud data centers. The service, currently available for […]

Read the Fine Print The resources cloud providers are promising appear to be infinite, or certainly more than most applications would ever need. But that doesn’t mean they are all available when your customers need them. There’s simply no way around it; you have to read the fine print of the Service-Level Agreements the providers […]