Chris Preimesberger

Backupify, a 4-year-old startup that provides backup, search and restore services for online services such as Facebook, Google Apps, Salesforce, and Twitter, said July 11 that it has obtained $9 million in Series C funding from existing investors in addition to a new strategic investor, Symantec. Avalon Ventures, General Catalyst, and Lowercase Capital, which already […]

VMware on July 11 launched a new beta version of its Zimbra enterprise email server that now goes far beyond email. Zimbra Collaboration Server 8.0 unifies key business communication channels–email, messaging, calendaring, voice and collaboration workflow–into a single cloud-based service. Zimbra can be deployed in private, public or hybrid clouds. The open-source-based system currently has […]

Sprint, like AT&T, Verizon and other telecommunications service providers that are investing heavily in the lucrative data center services business, on July 11 announced an exclusive deal with systems integrator CSC to deliver a new infrastructure as a service offering. The agreement specifies that Sprint’s network will become the communications backbone to enable secure, high-speed […]

Overland Storage, the San Diego-based company that has reinvented itself over the last four years to remain relevant in the midrange and small- and midsize-business storage markets, on July 11 launched two additions to its popular SnapSAN high-performance storage line. The SnapSAN 3000 and SnapSAN 5000, scalable to a whopping 288 terabytes of capacity, are […]

With an estimated 15 to 20 percent of all personal data files now being stored–or at least backed up–in cloud services, the market is really starting to heat up. Those numbers were single digits just 18 months ago. Dropbox made a move July 10, laying down a challenge to competitors such as Box, Mozy and […]

Know the Value Propositions of Email and SMS Text messaging has so much value as a business-to-consumer communication channel, not just because it’s the standard format for virtually every one of the more than 5 billion mobile phones worldwide, but because people pay more attention to texts than they do to email. Some estimates show […]

Oracle on July 10 bought its third social networking-related software startup in two months, acquiring cloud-based marketing-service provider Involver. Terms of the transaction were not released. Involver’s software enables companies to create and deploy customized social-media and Internet marketing campaigns for sites such as Facebook, YouTube and Twitter. On June 5, Oracle bought Collective Intellect, […]

EMC has been poked in the past for retaining an ancient code base dating back to the Paleolithic Age (for IT, that means the late 1980s) in some of its storage arrays. Now that may be a tad harsh, because the Symmetrix code base was updated in 2010 for the company’s VMAX line and built […]

Hadoop Acceptance Growing There is much greater acceptance of closed-source community of technology providers now building value on top of the Hadoop platform. At the recent Hadoop Summit 2012, this industry metric was shared:Â There were nine providers in the Hadoop market in 2009, and now that number has surpassed 120 in 2012. Hadoop Integrations […]

Is recording any given moment — or minutes or hours — of our lives using unobtrusive, on-demand video something that we all will be using in the years to come? Google is betting the answer to this is yes. The storage part of this process is already possible, because it’s relatively inexpensive and easy to […]

Facebook subscribers might be seeing more purple “Y’s” on their home pages soon, and Yahoo users may be looking at more blue thumbs-up as well. Yahoo and Facebook, located a few miles from each other in Silicon Valley and longtime media partners, announced July 6 that they signed a new advertising agreement that will expand […]

Data analytics software provider MapR Technologies has made its enterprise-grade Apache Hadoop distribution available to run on the new Google Compute Engine, introduced at Google I/O in San Francisco on June 28. MapR on the Google Compute Engine will be available as a free private beta for a select number of users, MapR said. Those […]