Chris Preimesberger

Dell is putting its cash on the barrelhead in a serious effort to come up with new ideas and strategies for future enterprise storageware. Founder and CEO Michael Dell told attendees at Fortune Brainstorm Tech conference July 17 that his company is investing $60 million in an early stage investment fund called the Dell Fluid […]

Coraid, a next-generation virtualized storage networking provider that is rapidly gaining industry traction, on July 17 launched a new line of Ethernet networked-attached storage servers for midrange and larger enterprises. The Redwood City, Calif.-based company, which has built an installed base of more than 1,500 customers worldwide since it started selling products in 2004, unveiled […]

VMware confirmed after the New York markets closed July 17 that which had been reported the previous evening: CEO Paul Maritz is moving on and that an executive from the parent company’s front office, EMC Chief Operations Officer Pat Gelsinger, will replace him at the helm in Palo Alto. Gelsinger (pictured at right), who joined […]

People who work in and carefully watch the solid-state disk industry are generally pretty optimistic that prices are going to continue to come down this year and next as the market expands and competition among the manufacturers increases. This will be largely, but certainly not all, at the expense of Serial ATA (SATA) and tape […]

According to a published report late on July 16, Paul Maritz is headed out the door after four years as CEO of VMware. He ostensibly will be replaced by EMC Chief Operations Officer Pat Gelsinger, a former 30-year veteran at Intel. EMC is the parent company of virtualization software market king VMware, which it bought […]

The first experiment in networking conventional television media with the Internet came to a close on the evening of July 15, when both Microsoft and NBC Universal announced they were abandoning their msnbc.com/MSNBC cable television partnership after exactly 16 years in business together. The idea behind it — two major powers in complementary businesses joining […]

Hopefully, Yahoo gets it right this time. The struggling search and Web services provider July 16 named longtime Google engineer and executive Marissa Mayer to be its eighth CEO. Mayer replaces interim CEO Ross Levinsohn, who had subbed eight weeks for Scott Thompson, who served as CEO for four months–January to May 2012–before he was […]

Digg, one of the first successful Internet social news-sharing sites, died a humiliating death earlier this week at the tender age of 8 by being slowly cut into pieces and sold off like a cow. We can’t be reminded of this basic tenet of business too often: If you don’t listen to your customers, you’re […]

Cloud computing is fundamentally changing the way users and enterprises use IT; most of us already know that. But what hasn’t been discussed too often is how advancing on-demand software and services supplied via the Web are changing the identities of data centers. Investment in data centers and related infrastructures by large enterprises is becoming […]

Google’s newest connected device, the Nexus 7 tablet, showed up at retailers on Friday the 13th of July and went out the doors almost as fast as employees could shelve them. They also started arriving in some — but not nearly enough — mailboxes for those who ordered early. The powerful new tablet, designed primarily […]

Yahoo’s annual shareholders’ meetings have been contentious affairs the last few years, as one would expect at a company that is leaking oil like a shot-up fighter plane limping home after a dogfight. /images/stories/eweek.logo.analysis1.jpgThere is still a lot of unease inside the search and Web services business as the 2012 shareholders’ event began July 12 […]

It’s been two weeks and a day since Google introduced its latest whiz-bang device, the Nexus 7 tablet, to the world on June 27. Thus, the analysts have had a bit of time to take the thing apart and offer some opinions about it. An early reviewer, TechInsights, reported that the basic 8GB Nexus 7, […]