Chris Preimesberger

SGI, which focuses exclusively on the high-performance computing market and large-scale workloads with its clustered Altix servers, Jan. 31 unveiled a new integrated server and storage platform for cloud and data storage use. Dubbed SGI Modular InfiniteStorage, the core platform will be available as either SGI Modular InfiniteStorage Server or SGI Modular InfiniteStorage JBOD (just […]

We’re going to be hearing the preface “exa-” as it refers to the data storage industry a lot more as time goes on, so we might as well get used to it. A current illustration of this point is object-based storage provider Cleversafe, which launched a new multi-rack array system Jan. 30 that can hold […]

No, it’s not pronounced “bummy.” “Boo-mi” would probably be a phonetically more desirable description of the company that calls itself BUMI (Backup My Info!), a managed online backup and recovery service for mid-range and SMBs that’s gaining momentum in the market.However, this could get confusing with Dell’s Boomi cloud integration platform; maybe we should just […]

Intoxicase Unbottles Imagination Newcomer Spicebox had one of the most talked-about items at MacWorld: the Intoxicase. Intoxicase and Intoxicase Plus are sturdy, rear-mounted bottle openers. The basic model ($35) is exposed, while the Plus ($45) hides the opener in a recessed metal door. The idea? Well, you often can’t find a bottle opener when you […]

SAN FRANCISCO–For the third consecutive year since the event began way back in 1985, Apple was nowhere to be found at the Macworld 2012 conference and expo here at the Moscone West center. Despite all the fresh new ideas on display for the Apple world from exuberant third-party companies, it matters quite a bit that […]

The Wall Street Journal, citing an unnamed source with knowledge of the situation, reported Jan. 27 that Facebook will file for its long-awaited initial public offering of stock on Wednesday, Feb. 1.If this event, which had been projected by several financial analysts to happen later this spring, does indeed take place, it will easily be […]

Back in April 2011, Dell got into two marriages to co-develop private cloud systems with Microsoft and VMware. As nature would have it, nine months after the consummation of the deal, the partnership with Microsoft is resulting in new offspring.On Jan. 25, Dell and Microsoft came out with vStart 100m and 200m configurations, new preconfigured […]

Private Cloud Deployments Increase, but Public Cloud Providers Prove to be More Secure. From Simon Crosby, co-founder and CTO of Bromium: There will be significant growth in enterprise private clouds as CIOs are keen to adopt consumption-based IT services to shed their capital-expense-intensive private cloud arena. However, public cloud providers will continue to strengthen their […]

Mozy, VMware’s cloud storage provider, has had a few iterations. It was one of the first such services on the map when tiny Berkeley Data Systems launched it in American Fork, Utah, back in 2005. After its sale to EMC in 2007, a merger with EMC’s Pi Corp. in 2008 to become an entity called […]

Machine-data collector and indexer Splunk, which owns one of the more original company names in IT, has launched a non-Adobe Flash version of its enterprise platform that can be used on mobile devices–specifically, the iOS-powered iPad.Open-source Splunk Enterprise 4.3, available for download since Jan. 10, collects, indexes and harnesses the large amounts of machine data […]

VMware, the world’s largest virtualization software and services provider, popped open at least a few people’s eyes Jan. 23 when it announced a whopping 67 percent year-over-year net income increase in its fourth-quarter 2011 earnings report. Continued growth in service and license revenue to go with larger profit margins helped VMware post quarterly net income […]

Intel bolstered its networking industry standing on Jan. 23 by acquiring the InfiniBand intellectual property-and bringing on board the people who run it-from networking processor and software maker QLogic. The deal, expected to close by the end of the current quarter, set back Intel by $125 million. QLogic, based in Aliso Viejo, Calif., also makes […]