Chris Preimesberger

This is undoubtedly making desktop storage device companies a little nervous: internal hard drives for desktops and laptops that keep moving up to larger and larger capacities, so that buying an extra portable drive seems like storage overkill. With this in mind, it’s Hitachi Global Storage Technologies’ turn to lead the world in terms of […]

Data center hardware continues to become more specialized for cloud deployments. SandForce, which makes solid-state chips that interact with volume flash memory to deploy both primary and I/O-intensive data storage applications, on Dec. 12 released a new multilevel cell (MLC) flash solid-state drive (SSD) that it claims is the first such processor optimized specifically for […]

Off the top, the open-source community appears to be happy that Hewlett-Packard has decided to save at least a modicum of face and release its Palm Inc.-developed webOS mobile-device operating system to the community at large. (Please note: HP will retain control of the patents, just to make sure nobody runs rogue and creates some […]

If the Price Is Too Good to Be True, It Probably Is The first and most important rule is to use common sense: If someone charges $20 for software priced at $200, you can bet that it is pirated software. Check the Seller or Websites Reputation Don’t be fooled by just seeing “power seller” or […]

Cisco Systems, in an effort to centralize access to its cloud-system-provisioning business in an escalating battle for telco customers with its competitors, on Dec. 6 revealed a new initiative it calls CloudVerse that will serve as the first door on which potential cloud-system buyers can knock. The company describes CloudVerse, a term that refers to […]

Rebit, which makes what it cheerfully calls “ridiculously simple” backup software for consumers and small busineses, said Dec. 5 that version 5 of its backup software has been integrated into Carbonite’s new Home Premier data protection suite.Rebit, which has created a foothold in the desktop disk backup business in 2008 by building single-purpose plug-and-play machines […]

Apache Hadoop, like most open-source projects, is a true work in progress and has always possessed great horsepower to analyze batches of data in huge gulps. What it has needed is help with additional features and the interface, because most people don’t write code or know how to write queries correctly.MapR Technologies, an early Hadoop […]

When enterprise application provider SAP announced over the weekend that it intends to spend multiple billions of dollars to acquire cloud services provider SuccessFactors, the news was strikingly reminiscent of another recent IT for IT acquisition: Hewlett-Packard picking up the U.K.’s Autonomy four months ago. Both deals involve international old-school IT companies — longtime partners, […]

If yesterday is an archive and today is a real-time view, then tomorrow is an idea that encompasses both history and present-day experience. That’s the concept behind the following eWEEK articles, which look at technology trends for 2012: Cloud Computing Seeks a New Identity Five Key Enterprise Development Trends Network Breaches Herald More Advanced Attacks […]

SAP, the world’s largest enterprise application maker and a well-known old-school-type IT provider, is looking to a relatively small San Mateo, Calif.-based company to lead it into the cloud application business of the future. It appears to be saving the bacon of that company at the same time. Walldorf, Germany-based SAP announced Dec. 3 that […]

Seagate, once the No. 1 hard disk drive producer in the world and now a close No. 2 to WD, continues to maneuver deeper into solid-state and hybrid SSD-hard disk drive territory. This week, the Scotts Valley, Calif.-based company started shipping Generation 2 of the 750GB Momentus XT, its solid state/HDD hybrid for consumer and […]

Scale-out Storage Adoption Will Become Pervasive It won’t just be for high-performance environments anymore. Users are looking for higher value and return from their investments; scale-out storage will be the key to match both performance and capacity requirements for those looking to achieve a faster ROI. Definition of Cloud Will Stabilize Many will realize the […]