Chris Preimesberger

Facebook announced Dec. 2 that it is opening a new software development and engineering office in New York City to augment its current Menlo Park and Palo Alto, Calif., and Seattle-based R&D locations. The Facebook NYC engineering office will debut in early 2012 and will begin accepting applications immediately, Facebook Vice President of Engineering Mike […]

In today’s IT world, you don’t have to have a well-known brand to make a big sale. It’s all about how well the IT works; beyond that, branding–at least in the IT infrastructure business–may be becoming less and less important. Two-year-old Scality, which provides an easy-to-install and operate, scale-out, on-site-based private cloud software platform, is […]

By David Hunter Recent high-profile data breaches shine a spotlight on the issues of trust, risk and security in the cloud. Yet, amid all the hand-wringing about perceived cloud computing security shortcomings, a deeper look yields a great irony: a mature cloud architecture is actually more, not less, secure than traditional IT environments. With the […]

Another new-generation data analytics package became available to the markets Nov. 28 when Fremont, Calif.-based Hyve Solutions launched its Series 8 high-performance Hadoop computing platform. Apache Hadoop platforms from Cloudera, Hortonworks, EMC, Hewlett-Packard and several other companies have already hit the markets and are being evaluated for their pros and cons. Hyve’s take on Hadoop […]

Hewlett-Packard made a significant leap ahead in the storage systems market Nov. 29 when it launched a fast-processing, enterprise-scale, disk-based backup system with an advanced data deduplication feature. HP, which calls the new dedupe scheme “Deduplication 2.0,” claims that its B6200 StoreOnce Backup System can process and restore data at the breakneck speed of 28TB […]

Run a Backup—Now. Yes, it sounds trite, but we’re often surprised at how many companies don’t do their backups often—or as completely—as they should. We’re talking primarily about long-term tape backup. Despite what the hard drive vendors tell you, tape backup isn’t dead at all; it’s by far the most efficient way to store data […]

Enterprise storage management automator Aptare has gone international. The Campbell, Calif.-based company has expanded into Europe to work locally with prospective customers, resellers and partners in order to grow its business. Aptare provides open standards-based storage reporting, monitoring and alerting software products that are designed to increase the efficiency of enterprise storage environments and reduce […]

As social networks become specialized to fit the needs of varying audiences, so is the archiving of all that texting data. Shreveport, La.-based ArcMail Technology, best known for its easy-to-use enterprise email archiving systems, on Nov. 23 launched a compliance-driven archive for text messages called ArcMail for Instant Messaging. ArcMail for Instant Messaging, which works […]

The pressure was heavy this week on Hewlett-Packard to show some sort of good news in its quarterly earnings report, following what has to be the most frustrating year in the company’s 72-year existence. Well, let us clarify that: 2011 might have been the most frustrating “messaging” year for the venerable and respected IT company, […]

Social networks have been splintering in order to attract various audiences. While Facebook, Google+, Friendfeed, Twitter and the like are horizontal cloud-based applications for general-purpose use, others such as LinkedIn (professionals), Chatter (internal for enterprises), Yammer (ditto Chatter) and others like them have found loyal user groups and are looking at promising futures. However, none […]

Hewlett-Packard’s new CEO, Meg Whitman-as well as the company’s embattled board of directors, 324,000 employees and shareholders-breathed easier Nov. 21 after the company turned in a fourth-quarter 2011 earnings report that outperformed Wall Street analysts’ projections. The news bolstered the company’s stock price early in the day by 4 to 6 percent, but ultimately the […]

Michael Dell told eWEEK last August that his company is steering more aspects of the business toward the higher-margin enterprise markets. That strategy apparently is starting to make a difference on the bottom line.Dell on Nov. 15 posted profits that were up 9 percent over the same period a year ago, despite banking only a […]