Chris Preimesberger

A European cloud service is jumping headlong into the online storage wars here in the States. And it’s put together an offer that will be tempting to a number of potential users — in both consumer and small-business markets.HiDrive Free, a service from Germany-based STRATO, one of Europe‘s largest Web hosting providers, launched in the […]

Solid-state drive maker Micron Technology announced Jan. 20 that it will acquire the assets of privately held Virtensys, a provider of PCIe-sharing virtualization software based in Manchester, England, and Beaverton, Ore.Terms of the proposed agreement were not released by Boise, Idaho-based Micron, which has been on the rebound since struggling through some tough financial times […]

Upstart Atlantis Computing, which specializes in virtual desktop infrastructure storage and performance optimization, this week proclaimed that it has done away with storage for VDI systems. Um, say that again, please? We won’t trouble you with a repeat — you can read the top line here again if you desire. But the company ostensibly has […]

Flexibility Kids play with building blocks so they can build whatever their imagination conceives. Similarly, use of public cloud computing services enable an enterprise to select what it needs, when it’s needed. It can select an intranet as a platform, and add email and CRM, email marketing tools, financial services and any number of other […]

One year after it started shipping its partner-powered Unified Computing System in July 2009, Cisco Systems announced that it had 1,000 installations processing data workloads in climate-controlled IT centers. That number alone is noteworthy, because these are not trivial data center units. They require more than a modicum of thought, planning and investment, and most […]

When you’re meeting with Jonathan Schwartz, it’s easy to feel that the only way you’ll ever be the smartest person in the room is if he leaves it. There isn’t a gray hair in Schwartz’s characteristic ponytail, yet the 46-year-old software developer and business executive started and led his own company (Lighthouse Design) while in […]

Internet search pioneer Jerry Yang, who with Stanford University classmate David Filo co-founded Yahoo in 1995, resigned Jan. 17 from the board of directors of his own company. Yang also said he is withdrawing from the boards of Yahoo Japan Corp. and Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. For about seven years, Yahoo ranked as the world’s […]

Data protection and cloud services provider Symantec, filling out its cloud and collaboration software portfolio, revealed Jan. 16 that it has acquired longtime partner LiveOffice, a provider of cloud-based archiving services. Financial details of the transaction were not released, but Jefferies & Company equity analyst Aaron Schwartz said in a media advisory that he estimated […]

IT’s getting better all the time. Phase II of Sir Paul McCartney’s evolving personal cloud archive and CRM system, designed and built by Hewlett-Packard’s cloud group, launched on Jan. 12, showcasing what IT now can provide in a cloud service. The new portal contains most of McCartney’s newly digitized collected assets from a half-century of […]

A convergence of factors that include shortages of spinning hard disk drives due to floods in Thailand, profound media-quality advancements and a sea change in the personal computer business is causing solid-state NAND flash drives to shoot up in demand for device manufacturers.As a result of all this market activity, worldwide solid-state storage industry revenue […]

Databases and applications that run in large caches of dynamic memory for high-transaction systems are getting closer looks from more enterprises in 2012.This is an IT segment that has gained a significant amount of traction in the last couple of years as workloads get bigger and more demands are put on processing skyrocketing scads of […]

Dell, which acquired Compellent in late 2009 and within a few months realigned its corporate storage strategy around that company’s “Fluid Data” IP, on Jan. 11 announced a spate of new products. They include an update of its Compellent Storage Center software that speeds up its tiering automation and data reduction functions, among other things.The […]