Chris Preimesberger

Google’s Gmail email service was disrupted for a bit more than an hour on April 17, disallowing about 2 percent of account holders to access their mail during that time window. Two percent of Google’s email users translates to about 5.25 million people. No cause for the outage had been revealed by Google admins by […]

The Box Syndrome Adopting a BYOD initiative, by definition, leads to corporate data making its way onto a broad range of devices. Unless you provide a secure enterprise alternative that controls the documents themselves, users will often turn to consumer-grade file-sharing services that don’t prevent documents from being forwarded to the wrong people. As recent […]

A 73-year-old IT company has joined forces with a relative newcomer to produce a new enterprise video-streaming appliance. Three-year-old Watchitoo, which provides interactive software as a service- (Saas-) based professional high-definition video collaboration and streaming IT, announced last week that it has partnered with Hewlett-Packard for the video collaboration package. HP is contributing its ProLiant […]

Thanks to an increasing number of larger–and often much more customized–enterprise IT processing and storage workloads, backup and recovery systems also have had to take a more specialized approach. For example, there are many more transport and security issues to solve when storing and replicating virtual machine datasets, as opposed to data and files that […]

Data center systems provider SGI has introduced a new network-attached storage package, fully integrated with VMware‘s vSphere, that is aimed at IT systems with high-volume workloads. SGI hasn’t offered virtualized-ready systems in the past, so this is a big step for the old-line IT company that has morphed from a high-end workstation provider 20 years […]

Oracle attorney Michael Jacobs came out swinging hard at Google on April 16 in his opening argument as the company began its $1 billion copyright-infringement lawsuit against the Web services giant in federal district court in San Francisco. Jacobs, a partner in the Palo Alto, Calif.-based (APIs) Morrison & Foerster law firm, attempted to convince […]

Quantum Corp. (NYSE:QTM) got into the young but promising Linear Tape File System (LTFS) business April 16 by launching an appliance that offers new methods of portability and user accessibility for archived video content on digital tape. The company made the announcement at the National Association of Broadcasters conference in Las Vegas. Quantum’s Scalar LTFS […]

IT giants Oracle and Google on April 16 began their legal battle in federal district court in Oracle’s lawsuit accusing Google of misusing its proprietary Java APIs to help create the second-most-popular mobile device operating system in the world, Android. Jury selection began April 16 at the Phillip Burton Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse in […]

Let’s get this straight: Kodak, which has been in the image business for 100 years, used to be the biggest employer in the city of Rochester, N.Y., and has been a household name for generations, is bankrupt. On the other hand, Instagram, which has been in the image business for 555 days, has no revenue, […]

If industry analyst IHS iSuppli is correct, a trend is building in the desktop PC world that has manufacturers moving from faster standard 3.5-inch hard drives to smaller, more power-efficient 2.5-inch units. The El Segundo, Calif.-based consultancy said in a media brief April 13 that global shipments of 2.5-inch hard-disk drives (HDDs) to all-in-one PCs […]

Revisiting the Big Hunk, Converged Vblock VBlock systems are bulky, preconfigured, pre-integrated and converged computing systems consisting of network systems and x86-type servers from Cisco Systems, architecture and storage/security/system management from EMC and virtualization software from VMware. They can run from hundreds of virtual machines to more than 6,000 virtual machines, depending on the need […]

EMC on April 12 introduced a complementary new product, VSPEX, to its hulking VBlock data center system that better fits midsize enterprise IT requirements. VBlock systems are preconfigured, preintegrated and converged computing systems consisting of networkware and x86-type servers from Cisco Systems, architecture and storage/security/system management from EMC, and virtualization software from VMware. The resulting […]