Chris Preimesberger

Try Not to Fret Too Much: This is Happening To Everyone Numerous studies show most large and midsize companies reported some type of data system attack in 2011. A majority of data security companies and industry analysts are predicting more frequent and higher-level attacks in 2012. IDS/IPS Not Enough Intrusion detection and prevention systems often […]

SAN FRANCISCO €” Intel’s new data center group general manager, Diane Bryant, served as the company’s CIO for four years, so she can talk the talk with customers of any size or scope. The conventional wisdom, of course, about all IT is that is only gets bigger or smaller (depending on what sector you’re talking […]

In its first news since the tragic death of CEO Steve Appleton in a plane crash Feb. 3, Micron Technology on March 6 launched what it called the first 2.5-inch enterprise solid-state drive based on a PCIe interface. The new, as-yet-unnamed drive combines a high-performance PCIe interface in a hot-swappable 2.5-inch card that gives data […]

MapR Technologies and Apache Hadoop, which already partner for their own distribution of the popular open-source batch analytics software package, on March 5 announced that MapR Hadoop will become available with Informatica’s data integration platform. Sharing resources is the operative term here. This new analytics software is now accessible from four different vendors. Informatica HParser […]

Yahoo employees are bracing for a corporate restructuring and a serious round of layoffs, if one believes a report issued March 5 from the Dow Jones IT news site AllThingsD. Of course, even casual industry observers don’t need that report to know that the Sunnyvale, Calif.-based company has been struggling for more than a decade […]

Nothing besmirches the reputation of cloud services more than a major outage like the one Amazon EC2 suffered last year and the one a red-faced Microsoft endured on Leap Year Day, Feb. 29. Bad guys hacking into a system can happen to anybody, cloud or no cloud. You secure as best you can for something […]

Advanced Micro Devices, in a move to augment its cloud-system product set, said Feb. 29 that it has agreed to acquire neighboring microserver maker SeaMicro for $334 million€”$281 million of which in cash. SeaMicro, like AMD, is based in Sunnyvale, Calif., and uses low-power-consumption processors in its own custom-designed servers that work well in private […]

Toshiba on Feb. 28 said that it has arranged a trade of sorts with hard disk drive (HDD) manufacturer Western Digital. Toshiba will acquire a portion of WD’s 3.5-inch hard-drive manufacturing equipment and some related intellectual property. As part of the transaction, the Japanese company will transfer its wholly owned Thailand-based HDD manufacturing subsidiary over […]

SAN FRANCISCO€”Michael Dell came to town Feb. 27, and, as an IT man with a fair amount of gravitas, he commands attention€”no matter what his message might be. At Dell’s impressive spring data center press conference here at the marble-floored Julia Morgan Ballroom in the Financial District, the Austin, Texas-based company introduced a few new […]

Seamless Integration Many flash memory products solve for narrow application areas. Some database accelerators require a deeper understanding and tuning effort to implement for a very specific part of the application stack. Beware of “specialized” storage, the kind that says it is specially designed for a particular use case. If the system is optimized for […]

Exalytics, Oracle’s new in-memory big data analytics appliance that moves “at the speed of thought” (CEO and co-founder Larry Ellison’s words), on Feb. 27 graduated from theory to general availability (GA) status in the Oracle product catalog. Oracle had introduced Exalytics last October at Oracle OpenWorld to go with its Exalogic cloud-systems server and its […]

In the interest of saving time on delivering new and useful information, The Station is trying out a new feature here today. It’s called a Pocket Use Case, or PUC for short. Goes to show that journalists can come up with good acronyms just as well as product managers. A PUC is a trimmed-down example […]