Chris Preimesberger

Hewlett-Packard Senior Vice President Prith Banerjee, who for five years headed the corporation’s vast research and development organization, HP Labs, will be leaving the company effective April 15. This is according to an internal document distributed by CEO Meg Whitman and first reported April 4 by AllThingsD. As of April 6, HP hadn’t made an […]

Collecting new companies is now officially a habit for Dell. The Round Rock, Texas-based corporation on April 5 revealed it has bought yet another one, 13-year-old Make Technologies€”Dell’s 16th acquisition in two years and third this week alone. Terms of the deal were not released by Dell. Dell also announced the addition of Wyse Technologies […]

New Yahoo CEO Scott Thompson on April 4 started some of the dirty work he was hired in January to do: trim back the company to its essentials, so it can conserve revenue and grow back in a new, more profitable way in the Web services business. Rumors of the cuts started a month ago. […]

CUPERTINO, Calif. –€” In a rare personal appearance before an outside-Hewlett-Packard audience, Executive Chairman Ray Lane on April 3 addressed a conference consisting of several-dozen entrepreneurs, analysts and journalists about the current state of the company, among other topics. Lane, 64, a former president of Oracle and executive at IBM, offered some perspectives on several […]

January 2007: Michael Dell Returns as CEO It’s probably no coincidence that Dell’s reboot began when company founder Michael Dell returned as CEO from his chairman position in January 2004, replacing his hand-picked successor, Kevin Rollins. During Rollins’ three-year tenure, the company remained a world leader in selling PCs but its market share started slipping; […]

A mere 24 hours after announcing theacquisition of virtual desktop and cloud management provider Wyse, Dell on April 3 added yet another company to its list of conquests: Clerity Solutions, a Chicago-based provider of applications modernization and re-hosting solutions and services. Terms of the transaction€”the 15th company Dell has bought in the last two years€”were […]

Time to celebrate another Wall Street-type victory for the NAND flash storage array sector.Mountain View, Calif.-based Violin Memory, which makes new-generation solid-state memory arrays, on April 2 banked a cool $50 million in Series D funding from SAP Ventures.Violin, CEO’d by industry veteran Don Basile, says this will boost the company’s market value to more […]

LSI, one of the few IT companies that make semiconductors, board components and all their accompanying software, revealed April 2 that it is now producing its own branded PCIe cards for data center servers. The company has provided these as an OEM partner for EMC and its VFCache server add-on card, which it introduced about […]

Dell is now officially a Big Tent: a benevolent sponsor of new IT acts that sells a lot of tickets in its traveling circus. The latest headliner for the center ring in Round Rock, Texas, is 31-year-old IT industry survivor Wyse Technology, which was born in 1981 during the Reagan Administration, when new companies still […]

Google and Facebook have been hiking on remarkably parallel paths. The two most popular Web services in the world are about to engage each other on a whole new level, once the business-side playing field is leveled in the next few weeks. Google raised $1.7 billion (and earned a $23 billion valuation) with its initial […]

They’re doing some interesting things in new-generation storage IT in Pittsburgh. Noteworthy is Avere Systems, which on March 28 released a new network-attached storage architecture that magnifies the benefits of already speedy NAND flash. This in turn makes storage I/O faster for cloud system-type deployments that demand more speed. The secrets for moving data fast […]

Cyber-Crimes Not Just Impacting a Few Companies About 431 million adults in 24 countries experienced a cyber-crime last year, according to metrics collected by the Security Innovation Network. The Majority of Enterprises Have Experienced a Data Breach Eighty-five percent of all companies in the United Kingdom and the United States have had at least one […]