Chris Preimesberger

Something that has been talked about openly in storage circles for more than two years has come to pass: Dell and EMC are parting ways in selling storage hardware, and they are ending their agreement two years early. Now Dell and EMC are officially competitors. Following a complicated 10-year partnership that was to run until […]

Thailand, home to a large number of manufacturing facilities-which produce one-quarter of the world’s hard disk drives-is being hit hard by heavy flooding that may directly affect the movement of hard drives into the various markets. Storage analyst IHS iSuppli said in a flash market report Oct. 17 that Thailand’s worst floods in more than […]

The biggest news at Oracle OpenWorld 2011, held Oct. 2-6 in San Francisco, was the introduction of Oracle’s Exalytics big data analytics appliance, which is expected to be out early next year. And Oracle’s longtime (16 years) partner, EMC-with which it has a complicated relationship-produced a competing big data analytics appliance with its Greenplum group. […]

Who says the future of IT is all in software? All software has to run on some sort of processor, physical or virtual, and all those have to run on something you can see and touch. And with the continuing deluge of data pouring into servers and storage arrays, there is no shortage of processors […]

IBM to Launch New Automated Cluster Storage Software IBM said at SNW Fall 2011 that it will make available new storage software by the end of the month that enables data to be automatically migrated between tiers on an array and even between arrays regardless of where the data chunks might be physically located. Big […]

IBM, looking for just the right partner to supply its enterprise cloud storage service for the next few years, completed its legendarily exhaustive vetting process and announced Oct. 12 that it has selected Nirvanix for the job. Under the terms of the five-year OEM deal between IBM and San Diego-based Nirvanix, IBM will incorporate cloud […]

Hortonworks, the Apache Hadoop-based data analytics provider that was spun out from Yahoo last July, did on Oct. 12 what just about any open-source company would have found impossible only a couple of years ago: It announced a strategic partnership with Microsoft. The announcement was made at the PASS Summit in Seattle. You read that […]

Virtualization software provider Citrix Systems moved into the storage-control realm Oct. 13 with the acquisition of ShareFile, a provider of secure, cloud-based data storage, sharing and collaboration software.Citrix, which is integrating its product line into a new data center product entitled the “Follow-Me Data” platform, did not disclose terms of the deal.ShareFile software, which uses […]

When it comes to the increasingly cutthroat virtual desktop market, making these systems as simple as possible now comprises the race to the top. After all, conventional VDI is Seriously Complicated — with a capital S and C. Ask anybody. Citrix’s Kaviza-based VDI and MokaFive have innovative new takes on this. Cisco Systems just partnered […]

Networker Cisco Systems and virtualization provider Citrix on Oct. 12 co-launched a new enterprise virtual desktop system optimized for high-scale use of video and audio — two rich media functions that often have fouled up VDI test deployments with unacceptable latency in the past. This is the first VDI partnership between the two well-established IT […]

Box keeps packing away those enterprise deals-whether it’s a new partnership, an impressive new enterprise customer or more venture funding. On Oct. 11 it was the latter as the Palo Alto, Calif., file storage and content management cloud service announced its fourth major venture capital round, which added a fresh $81 million into its bank […]

SAN FRANCISCO – Oracle jumped onto the increasingly crowded social-networking gravy train Oct. 5 when its co-founder and CEO Larry Ellison introduced the enterprise-oriented Oracle Social Network as a key part of its evolving cloud strategy. Ellison also took the wraps off his company’s newest cloud-oriented middleware products and strategy, called Oracle Public Cloud, in […]