Chris Preimesberger

MENLO PARK, Calif. €” A little over a year after Facebook launched its Open Compute Project, organizers of the unusual open-source hardware and software initiative report that it is gaining traction among a large number of companies big and small. Turns out most enterprises want to save money, power from the walls and staff time. […]

1992: Hitz Parade Begins NetApp founder Dave Hitz writes the first storage operating system with the Write Anywhere File Layout (WAFL), improving storage performance and efficiency. 1993: First NAS Appliance Boots Up NetApp launches the first network-attached storage appliance, the FAServer 400, which provides shared file storage and simplified data management. 1993: SnapShot Data Protection […]

It’s a Comprehensive Offering The company that made its reputation selling secure databases has put a massive amount of time and money into the Oracle Cloud offering. The new suite of services already numbers more than 100 available applications, and Oracle has made a set of new APIs available for developers to build even more […]

REDWOOD CITY, Calif. — Oracle, for more than a generation a proponent and defender of the conventional on-premises data center system, is now officially both a cloud-systems and cloud-services provider. The all-purpose IT products and services provider launched its Oracle Cloud on June 6 before several hundred invited guests (mostly customers, analysts, journalists) and a […]

Data storage provider NetApp is putting two terms together than aren’t often seen in the same sentence. Those would be “entry-level” and “cloud system.” A complete cloud system, which represents a nontrivial investment in computing, storage, networking and outside services, isn’t exactly considered entry-level for most midrange or smaller IT shops. Enterprises generally start a […]

Toshiba Storage Products jumped ahead of its competitors on June 4 to unveil the first solid-state drives to use the smaller, thinner 19-nanometer NAND flash process.The THNSNF series of SSDs is the latest storage media aimed at high-end and thin and light notebooks, all-in-one desktop computers, embedded systems and external storage devices for consumer and […]

Day 2 of the Hewlett-Packard vs. Oracle lawsuit in California state Superior Court in San Jose, Calif., June 5 brought forth more testimony from HP’s then-head of enterprise business, board of directors member Ann Livermore. The issue at hand is this: Did Oracle violate contract agreements when it decided to stop making new versions of […]

Apache Hadoop software and services provider Cloudera, which ranks among industry leaders in showing enterprises how to use new-generation batch analytics, on June 5 launched version 4.0 of Cloudera Enterprise, its flagship data management platform. The Palo Alto, Calif.-based company, whose chief architect, Doug Cutting, led the original Hadoop development team at Yahoo several years […]

Vision Solutions, which has been providing information availability software and services to IT systems for two decades, is one of the few surviving IT companies that has crossed the long bridge from supporting IBM Power-based mainframes in 1992 to x86-based cloud systems in 2012. In case you might not have heard of Vision Solutions previously, […]

Oracle has spent a great deal of time and attorney’s fees in court the last year and a half, battling with longtime European competitor SAP for weeks in late 2010 and just a week ago concluding a two-years-in-the-making, six-week-long court date with Google. Both were over copyright infringement, and Oracle was the plaintiff in each. […]

Flash memory storage maker SanDisk, known historically for its little blue storage cards in cameras and cell phones, continues to scale out into the business-to-business space. On June 4 the company introduced a new PCIe (peripheral component interconnect express) accelerator card designed to boost the performance of workstations and servers running high-transaction applications in data […]

Data analytics provider ClickFox on June 4 released a new version of its Pulse Customer Experience Analytics platform that it claims is easier and more intuitive to use for line-of-business employees. CEA Version 6.4 of the Atlanta-based company’s customer behavior recognition engine enables enterprises to analyze incoming data from any customer interaction (Internet, in-store, telephone, […]