Chris Preimesberger

LAS VEGAS €” EMC, the storage and data protection company that is quickly morphing into a cloud infrastructure provider, Feb. 14 launched an updated data center control package that enables better overall use of VMware’s popular vCenter server. EMC made the announcement at VMware’s global partner conference, which is being held at the Venetian Hotel […]

LAS VEGAS €” VMware welcomed a record 4,300 resellers, integators and various other business partners to its global-scope Partner Exchange 2012 event Feb. 14. The number of attendees at the Venetian Hotel was up 20 percent from 2011 and an eye-opening 120 percent from 2010€”clear indicators that interest in sales of data center, desktop, and […]

What Impact Will Deduplication Have on Backup Performance? High performance is essential to large enterprises that need to move exponentially growing, massive data volumes to the safety of a backup environment within a finite backup window. Understanding the performance distinctions between each category of deduplication technology-particularly as they change over time-is essential for choosing the […]

LAS VEGAS €” Hewlett-Packard is opening the channel doors of opportunity a bit wider for its value-added resellers. The world’s largest (by sales volume) IT products and services provider announced Feb. 13 on the first day of its global partner conference here at the Cosmopolitan that it is offering significant new sales and marketing options […]

Bolstered in large measure by increasing sales of its Unified Computing System data center equipment, Cisco Systems revealed encouraging financial results that exceeded Wall Street analysts’ projections for the third straight quarter. San Jose, Calif.-based Cisco, still the world’s No. 1 IT networking provider, on Feb. 8 reported sales of $11.5 billion for its second […]

When former Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang left the company he co-founded on Jan. 17, industry folks in the know realized it was only a matter of time until board chairman Roy Bostock followed him out the door. That day has come. After Bostock and three other board members resigned Feb. 8, the company said it […]

Oracle’s Feb. 9 acquisition of enterprise talent management provider Taleo Corp. for $1.9 billion is a clear indicator of the all-purpose IT giant’s commitment to becoming a major-league player in the enterprise cloud services business.For $46 per share, Oracle is now the proud owner of the world’s second-busiest software as a service (SaaS) solution provider. […]

Storage, security and virtualization giant EMC had never encroached on the server business in the past, but it’s now literally getting inside them, thanks to a new product it introduced Feb. 6. Completing a promise it made at EMC world in May 2011, EMC unveiled its first PCIe NAND flash card that puts a measure […]

Confidence Clearly Lacking SMBs in the U.S. are still lagging behind in their backup and disaster recovery plans. Only slightly more than 50 percent feel confident in the strategies they have in place. Downtime Costing Big Bucks According to the data, SMBs are still losing an average of $388,426 a year due to IT downtime. […]

1. Performance Your organization may need to alert tens, hundreds or thousands of people affected by an event. Look at a notification system’s track record of actual performance during real events. Examine: How many messages are sent through the network per month and year? What is the system’s capacity potential across multiple notification touch points […]

Facebook, which is barely eight years old but will record its 1 billionth registered user sometime this spring, filed an application Feb. 1 with the Securities and Exchange Commission for an initial public offering of stock potentially worth $10 billion or more. When the stock is issued at some point in the near future, Facebook-with […]

Nimbus Data Systems, which makes storage systems that ostensibly are intelligent enough to think for themselves, Jan. 31 launched what it described as the industry’s first fully redundant, multiprotocol solid-state storage array. The new E-Class Flash Memory System, loaded exclusively with enterprise-grade NAND flash, features complete redundancy and no single point of failure, Nimbus founder […]