Chris Preimesberger

Storage Follows Computing Storage trends tend to follow computing. As computing becomes increasingly virtualized, storage must become much simpler to use and with features that work much better with virtualization. Virtualization: The New Normal In 2009, virtualization crossed an important threshold. According to IDC, this was the first year that new virtual server deployments exceeded […]

T-Mobile revealed March 22 that it is forced to close seven of its 24 call centers and eliminate 1,900 staff positions. The move impacts 3,300 people, a majority of whom share jobs. The Bellevue, Wash.-based telecommunications provider, which parent company Deutsche Telekom AG tried but failed to sell to AT&T for $39 billion in 2011, […]

NComputing, a virtual desktop software supplier that has flown under most domestic radars but is building up an impressive global customer base, has released a new mobile client for turning Windows PCs, laptops, netbooks and tablets into high-performance virtual clients. vSpace Client for Windows, released to general availability on March 20, uses NComputing’s homegrown vSpace […]

When a company decides it wants to establish its own internal collaboration network for its employees, it also has to determine the parameters of whom that network will include€”inside and outside the company. Newcomer Moxie Software, which appears to be helping redefine the enterprise social networking market, has a different idea. The 2-year-old company came […]

We have a few observations about Hewlett-Packard’s internal reorg to combine its printer and PC businesses, something the company has needed for a long while. For starters, it looks like Hewlett-Packard’s new CEO, Meg Whitman, is making some moves that will help the venerable but embattled company in the long term. There will be varying […]

Six months into her tenure as CEO, Meg Whitman and the Hewlett-Packard board of directors who hired her made their second major strategic corporate move March 21 when they decided to combine two of the company’s hardware businesses into a single entity to save money and improve operational efficiency. HP’s Imaging and Printing Group and […]

Nirvanix, one of the most progressive of the new enterprise cloud storage providers, has been making news lately. First of all, whenever a customer with the international reputation of the National Geographic Society decides to cast its lots with your storage service, you’re probably doing something well. That’s the call Nirvanix got recently. Then on […]

Oracle, which overall has posted modest earnings advances in the last year and missed Wall Street expectations for the first time last quarter, on March 20 turned in an earnings report that this time clearly beat analysts’ projections. The world’s largest provider of parallel database software filed Q3 2012 revenue of $9.04 billion, a 2.2 […]

SAN FRANCISCO — €”In one move, EMC on March 20 combined the white-hot IT sectors of big data analytics, social networking and new-generation application development with the acquisition of Pivotal Labs, a privately held provider of software development services and tools. EMC, one of the world’s largest data center systems, storage and virtualization providers, did […]

Cost No. 1: Capex Your networking and operations programs could be costing you capital expenses. It can be argued that a lower- or multitier-level design to optimize network traffic can be supplemented with a pristine operations program to achieve the reliability of a Tier III or Tier IV data center; that’s money saved before you […]

March Madness is in full swing, and it could impact your company’s network, whether you know it, like it or neither. With 68 teams playing 36 games in the first seven days, the NCAA is forced to schedule the majority of its games during the standard 9 to 5 workday. But that won’t stop sports-loving […]

A mere six weeks after closing the acquisition of human capital management cloud service provider Rypple, Web services giant Salesforce.com on March 15 launched the integration of the service into its rapidly expanding social enterprise suite. The announcement was made at CloudForce, Salesforce’s annual developers’ conference held at the Moscone Center in San Francisco. Salesforce […]