Chris Preimesberger

The first thing you think when you pick up Google’s new Asus-built, Android Jelly Bean 4.1-powered Nexus 7 tablet is this: Wow, this is cool-looking, it’s light, it feels comfortable in my hand, and it only costs … what? $199, that’s what. My second thought was this: Google must be selling this as a loss […]

Trim Design Is Light, Comfortable to Hold Google’s Nexus 7 weighs only a bit more than a pound and fits comfortably in the hand and wherever you need to stow it due to its 7-inch size. Touch Performance Is Excellent Nexus 7 does what you tell it, and quickly. It is also Bluetooth-enabled, if you’d […]

Get ready for a technical mouthful.Samsung said July 3 that it has begun sampling the industry’s first 16GB Double Data Rate-4 (DDR4), Registered Dual Inline Memory Modules (RDIMMs), optimized for high-end enterprise-level servers. Go ahead, say that product name fast a few times in a row. Using a 30nm-class process, Samsung sampled new 8GB and […]

VMware added depth to its cloud offerings July 2 by acquiring DynamicOps, a Burlington, Mass.-based company that provides software for cloud automation with multi-cloud, multi-platform and multi-vendor management capabilities. Terms of the acquisition were not announced. DynamicOps complements VMware€™s existing cloud management packages with what it calls a €œservice governor solution” to enable provisioning and […]

Quest Software started out in 1987 with a simple mission: to make software that eased the administration of fear-inducing Oracle databases. In those days, Quest had several dozen employees, was making a few million dollars a year, and was glad of it. A lot has happened in 25 years, leading up to a $2.4 billion […]

When Microsoft announced its Surface tablet PC on June 18, the repercussions of that event hit Hewlett-Packard and Dell where it hurt. These two companies would dearly like a piece of that cash cow-like tablet market, and they wanted to compete in it with the more energy-efficient ARM-based operating system architecture inside their own tablets. […]

Your Companys Data Is Valuable Data is the essence of any organization. However, backup and DR/COOP investments can be difficult to sell internally because their benefits aren’t readily apparent in the bottom line. Just like with any insurance policy, these technologies matter most when the unpredictable happens, such as when a hurricane, tornado or catastrophic […]

Google Moves Deeper Into the Enterprise Host Om Malik asked Sundar Pichai, senior vice president of Chrome and Apps, Google, what he thinks is the most important adoption trend for cloud computing at this time. “The big thing that’s going to help cloud, with consumers and enterprises as well, was that previously, people were tethered […]

Red Hat is at the center of many IT systems with its widely deployed Enterprise Linux stack, but the company with the instantly recognizable red fedora logo isn’t often mentioned in the same context when enterprises look to update data storage. After all, companies such as EMC, NetApp, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Oracle and Dell rule the […]

Symantec and Red Hat, who have been collaborating on cloud-related projects for about a half-dozen years, June 29 announced an extension of their agreement to co-develop software and services for the deployment of agile private and hybrid clouds inside highly resilient data centers. The announcement was made at the Red Hat Summit and JBoss World […]

Servers, storage, processors and the Internet itself have undergone rapid transformations during the last few years. Now networking — long a bastion of standardivity, outside of increasing bandwidths — is starting to see some innovation, led by some new players. One of those is 30-person stealth startup Plexxi, which revealed June 29 that it has […]

Google is finding more ways to take on Apple’s empire — in devices, Web services and now in the television market. On June 27, Day 1 of the Google I/O conference at Moscone West in San Francisco, the company announced its powerful new Nexus 7 tablet PC. On June 28, the company announced in a […]