Chris Preimesberger

Storage is continuing to develop at a breathless pace-both in the use of advanced materials and in the way those materials are being applied. New products and services involving NAND (Not AND) flash, Peripheral Component Interconnect express (PCIe) cards, image cloning, storage pooling, automation, improved capacity management and enhanced aerial density on digital tape are […]

Although the overall trend in enterprise storage IT is clearly moving toward smaller, faster 2.5-inch solid-state drives, plenty of shops still use the older 3.5-inch variety, and Hitachi Global Storage Technologies is determined to keep supplying that market. Hitachi on Sept. 19 said that its 3.5-inch Fibre Channel Ultrastar 400S single-level cell SSDs, co-developed with […]

Cloud service and infrastructure-related sales have been documented as zooming up the marketing charts at a dizzying clip-up 21 percent in total revenue year over year-according to IT market researcher Gartner. Worldwide software as a service (SaaS) revenue is on track to surpass the $12 billion level in 2011, which computes to a 20.7 percent […]

Once you learn how to say the name of the company, which phonetically is pronounced “Ex-ignite,” Xignite really is not that hard to identify. The 30-person financial market data provider, which delivers everything through a well-designed subscription cloud service, got some good news this week in the form of serious capital backing. The fledgling San […]

Intel, following up on its promise to keep cranking out new and improved SSDs because its customers demand them, on Sept. 15 launched its latest product line, the Solid-State Drive 710 Series, at the Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco. The 710 Series SSDs are purpose-built multi-level cell (MLC) enterprise data center-level replacements for Intel’s […]

Off the top, $20 million doesn’t sound like a relatively light penalty for losing a major international copyright infringement case, but rest assured, German software maker SAP was glad to agree to that figure on Sept. 14. It could have been much, much worse. On Sept. 1, a federal court judge in Oakland, Calif., threw […]

A growing number of Yahoo’s shareholders-many of whom have been restless for about five years as they have watched their company struggle with competitors and internal management issues-are now demanding their board of directors make leadership changes. More than three dozen Form 8K documents were filed with the U.S. Security and Exchange Commission by investor […]

Cloud Application Adoption Continues to Rise In the past two years, 64 percent of companies in a recent survey have implemented at least one software-as-a-service (SAAS) application. That number should rise during the next two years, as 77 percent of companies expect to implement at least one SAAS application. Additionally, in the next two years, […]

Virtualization market king VMware on Sept. 14 upgraded its Workstation software package to version 8 by adding no fewer than 50 new features.Workstation, designed for x86 and x86 64-bit servers or PCs, enables users to set up multiple virtual machines on a single physical box. User then can deploy one or more of these virtual […]

Cisco Systems, which for years owned more than 50 percent of the Internet networking gear market but has lost some 10 percent of that market share in the last few years, never had to position itself as aggressive in the marketplace because it was usually in a comfortable first-place position. Today, the company still is […]

Now the Guinness Book of World Records is judging performance in the central processing unit business. Advanced Micro Devices, which apparently needs all the publicity it can generate, announced Sept. 13 that it has achieved the Guinness World Record for the “Highest Frequency of a Computer Processor,” by overclocking the upcoming octa-core AMD FX Bulldozer-based […]

Use Smart Grid for Data Collection Across the Environment Sensors collect power and cooling data from systems and facilities and establish consistent energy benchmarks. This allows IT managers to aggregate information to provide meaningful data on power and cooling efficiency in real time, which can help dynamically manage data center energy usage. Use Consulting Services […]