Chris Preimesberger

The Station wants to apologize to all of his readers. We’ve been spectacularly inconsistent with our posts for a long while, but that’s now changing. We’ll still be spectacular, but we’ll just add a more consistent news flow to the mix. We don’t need to go into a lot of detail, but there have been […]

Dell, forging ahead with its strategy of morphing into more of a cloud infrastructure and services company, on Feb. 24 acquired Reston, Va.-based backup and replication software maker AppAssure Software. Terms of the transaction were not released by Dell. The deal marks the company’s twelfth acquisition in the past two years and the first under […]

Cisco Systems, hot on the trail of ways to improve the innards of its switches and routers, revealed Feb. 24 that it has acquired high-speed networking hardware maker Lightwire for $271 million in cash. The deal, which is expected to close in April, is a clear indicator that Cisco intends to continue to invest in […]

Hewlett-Packard’s new CEO, Meg Whitman, has had exactly five months to survey the damage her venerable 73-year-old IT company has sustained in the last 10 years. And damage has been done to the brand. One wonders how now-deceased co-founders David Packard and Bill Hewlett would appraise the company today as compared to the “HP Way” […]

Even IT companies need to upgrade their own internal systems every so often, and it looks like Hewlett-Packard€”the world’s largest supplier of IT hardware, software and services by sales volume€”may soon become one of its own best customers. Admitting that it needs to improve its supply chain and general-purpose execution while struggling through a worldwide […]

Increase Awareness and Understanding for the Business Case Seek out the advice from analysts, media and vendors, and use that insight to document the benefits of cloud computing. Make sure it is aligned with your internal business needs, and not with the external hype. Ensure management that the investment and payback are clear. Assess Your […]

U.K.-based enterprise collaboration provider Huddle, which has established itself in Europe during the last five years with its cloud-based content management service, Feb. 21 launched a private beta program for Huddle Sync, a new file-synchronization tool. Huddle Sync enables employees inside an enterprise to securely access an entire corporate knowledge store, yet the service intelligently […]

Dell had good news and not-so-good news for its shareholders on Feb. 21, reporting record yearly revenue and ROI for its investors in its fiscal year-end earnings report but also ceding that its profit margins have slipped.In fiscal year 2012, the company banked a record $61.1 billion in revenue, including a record $18.6 billion in […]

EAI in the Cloud Almost everything everyone does today in the cloud as it pertains to data integration has been primarily business-to-business- (B2B-) focused. B2B in the cloud is now considered “business as usual” and is increasingly regarded as a mature technology for solving B2B issues. More vendors are now shifting their focus to leveraging […]

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. €” Government agencies at the federal and state levels talk a good game about wanting to refresh legacy data center systems by moving as many of them to cloud services as possible. Instantly realized cost-savings, ease of use and increased data safety and workload effectiveness are all factors that can’t be denied […]

Dallas-based SoftLayer came out with a heartfelt news announcement on Valentine’s Day. The seven-year-old company, which started out as a Web hoster but now is into cloud services, revealed the worldwide availability of SoftLayer Object Storage.This is a redundant and highly scalable cloud storage service that allows users to store, search and retrieve data across […]

LAS VEGAS €” Hewlett-Packard, looking a bit more settled in its top-level administration with new CEO Meg Whitman following a tumultuous 11 months under a previous administration, staged its first global partner conference Feb. 13 and unveiled a sweeping refresher of its ProLiant server franchise. The Palo Alto, Calif.-based company made the announcement€”among several others€”on […]