Chris Preimesberger

Dell beefed up its network security options in a big way March 13 by acquiring unified threat management software provider SonicWALL. Terms were not disclosed, but Wall Street’s Jefferies & Company estimated Dell paid between $1 billion and $1.5 billion in cash. San Jose, Calif.-based SonicWALL, which focuses on providing firewall software and appliances to […]

God knows there’s plenty of competition in most sectors of IT, but the Web conference and Webinar-provisioning businesses are heating up in particular fashion right now. With such well-known names as Cisco Systems’ Webex, Skype, Microsoft LiveMeeting, Citrix’s GoToMeeting, Adobe’s Acrobat Connect, IBM LotusLive and dozens of others vying for customers, it’s easy for a […]

One could describe Dell as acquisition-crazy and not be far off the mark. It has now captured two new companies in three weeks and 13 in the last two years, if you’re keeping score. That’s a lot of new-generation IT to uproot and move inside a company firewall. However, Dell has a system on how […]

SAN FRANCISCO€”As it does every year, RSA Security Conference 2012 here at the Moscone Center showed 20,000 people onsite€”as well as the world€”why it continues to be the biggest and most important IT security event. 2012 marked the show’s 20th anniversary, with companies attending from all over the world with product announcements and demonstrations highlighting […]

Yahoo has endured its set of trials in the last several years, and it is understandably skittish about a lot of things. In just the last few months, it has replaced its CEO, lost its former CEO and co-founder, lost its board chairman and replaced three other board members. The company’s overall value is slipping, […]

It used to be that large enterprises€”like NASA, for example€”would do research and development on products that would eventually trickle down to the consumer. Products such as invisible ceramic teeth braces, scratch-resistant eyeglass lenses and memory foam for mattresses are only three of the thousands of products that have been developed by the U.S. space […]

Microsoft has been working for years to get more of its software into the data center and cloud infrastructure markets with System Center and the Azure platform, and now it’s moving into the so-called big data space. The Redmond, Wash.-based software giant earlier this week released SQL Server 2012 to manufacturing, revealing that will be […]

It’s been written — here in eWEEK, in fact — that nothing’s ever certain except death, taxes and needing to buy more data storage. The global markets continue to prove every quarter that buying more storage software and hardware — whether on-premises or in the cloud — is a never-ending project, thanks to ever-increasing data-creation […]

Setting the Scene Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, located on the Moscone Center campus in downtown San Francisco, was the scene for the new iPad launch, as it was for many previous Apple product launch events. Not a Square Inch to Spare Once all the invited guests were inside—an estimated 600 people—there was hardly […]

Open-source network backup software maker Zmanda and Google have shaken hands on a deal to offer a new cloud data-backup service. Zmanda provides its flagship network backup suite, Amanda Enterprise, as the connecting software, and Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) chips in with its cloud storage capacity. Amanda Enterprise natively supports the backup of servers, desktops and applications […]

Z420 Workstation Featuring dual HP ZR2440w displays with Autodesk Inventor up and running. HP Z workstations are used to design everything from running shoes and race cars to animated characters and deep-sea submersibles, as well as to manage research labs, mission-critical IT environments and billions of dollars of tradable securities. Z420 Workstation Features HP ZR2740w […]

Voila! Casually dressed Apple CEO Tim Cook shows the first photos of the iPad 3, which comes in either black or white. No silver, at least at this time. Handles Well The new iPad weighs a bit more and is not quite as thin as both previous versions, but it has much more functionality. Can […]