Chris Preimesberger

Pretty much everything else in IT already is virtualized, so why not a processor? Nvidia on May 15 introduced what it called the “world’s first virtualized GPU,” and aimed it squarely at accelerating graphics input/output for virtual desktop deployments in cloud systems. The announcement was made during the company’s GeForce customer and partner conference a […]

Wonder how those HR folks at Yahoo and PayPal are feeling right about now. All they had to do is make a Web query or even just a phone call to check on Scott Thompson’s background. You can bet that over the weekend a lot of people, and not just high-level executives, went to LinkedIn […]

Google Drive, the company’s new cloud storage system that launched on April 24, has picked up a lot of users in a short window of time. A research note from Trip Chowdhry, managing director of Equity Research at Global Equities Research, reported May 12 that Google Drive signups are off to a “very strong start, […]

Well, the excuse about the executive search firm editing in a mistake on his resume didn’t work out so well. Yahoo’s seemingly endless leadership struggles came to another crossroads May 13 when the executive board fired CEO Scott Thompson, 54, and replaced him with Executive Vice President Ross Levinsohn as interim CEO. Levinsohn (pictured), 48, […]

As Facebook winds down an obligatory pre-IPO road show and prepares for its first day of public stock trading May 18 as “FB” on the NASDAQ exchange, investors and potential investors are thinking way beyond just how high the stock price will jump on the first day. For starters: Can Facebook prove its overall value […]

Yahoo CEO Scott Thompson made news again May 11, reportedly telling colleagues that a nationally known and respected executive placement firm edited an error into his resume that has been there for years and is now causing him and his company consternation. Thompson, who didn’t earn the computer science degree in 1979 his resume claims, […]

Oracle, battling for market share with competitors Citrix, VMware and Hewlett-Packard in an increasingly busy sector of IT, spiffed up its desktop virtualization offerings May 10 with several service enhancements and new storage-related options. The company upgraded its enterprise VDI controls (Oracle Virtual Desktop Infrastructure 3.4), thin-client software system (Sun Ray Software 5.3) and desktop […]

Project Avalon Citrix unveiled Project Avalon, an initiative to transform any Windows application or desktop into a cloud service delivered across any network, to any device. Citrix already delivers Windows apps and desktops to more than 100 million users. With Project Avalon, Citrix integrates all its IT to extend these same capabilities to the thousands […]

Hadapt, whose data analytics framework natively integrates Apache Hadoop with any relational database, joined forces May 10 with Hadoop interface provider Cloudera to produce an advanced big data-type tool for enterprises. Hadoop is a famously difficult batch-processing tool to utilize without a user-friendly front end, which is what Cloudera and several other companies now provide. […]

EMC, in a not-very-well-kept “secret” for the last few weeks, announced May 10 that it is acquiring startup XtremIO, a flash-based storage maker that hasn’t even issued its products for general availability yet. As is customary for its smaller acquisitions, EMC did not reveal the transaction terms. However, industry analysts contacted by eWEEK–who have predicted […]

Hewlett-Packard on May 10 took the next step in its quest to become a public cloud services platform provider by moving to beta with its first group of services. HP’s first publicly available beta services–HP Cloud Compute, HP Cloud Object Storage and HP Cloud Content Delivery Network–are now being offered through a standard pay-by-the-drink model. […]

Confusion, Vagueness Surround MFT in the Cloud Companies and vendors alike are in a quandary when it comes to defining exactly what constitutes MFT in the cloud. This vagueness is particularly apparent when an organization issues a RFP that includes an MFT component and the vendor struggles to determine if that requirement is within its […]