Chris Preimesberger

CA Technologies (NASDAQ: CA) on July 27 refreshed its cloud computing infrastructure catalog with 11 updated products, including its application automation suite and its turnkey-type cloud management platform. “Enterprises now have a lot of choices in IT structures that include traditional, cloud and hybrid application environments,” Jay Fry, CA’s vice president of marketing for cloud […]

Data Center Consolidation Moving Data Further and Further from Users As enterprise organizations expand to compete in a global economy, IT staff face new challenges in providing the increasingly distributed workforce efficient access to essential data. Globally distributed teams need shared read/write access to large files and data sets, which significantly increases the complexity of […]

Symform, which has an unusual take on the cloud storage marketplace by offering a mix-and-match choice of storing data on local and cloud repositories, will announce on July 27 that for a limited time it is giving new and existing customers 100GB of cloud storage for free. Even if customers decide they don’t want to […]

Cloud platform newcomer TransLattice, which geographically distributes and accelerates applications for enterprise, cloud and hybrid environments, on July 25 released version 2.0 of its Java-based platform. TransLattice’s IP aims to improve availability and performance of transactional applications for both on-premises and cloud environments, CEO Frank Huerta told eWEEK. The package provides resilience, scalability, policy control […]

Addresses Only a Small Market VDI technology generally assumes users will work on a high-speed LAN that has relatively static desktop images with a limited number of applications and are using thin-client devices. Analysts report that 410 million PCs were shipped in 2010 as opposed to 6 million thin clients. Doesnt Use Power of a […]

One doesn’t normally think of the island of Malta-located just south of Sicily in the Mediterranean-as being a haven for IT companies, but upstart storage provider Altaro is an exception in this case. Altaro specializes in backing up data for home PCs, business PCs and file servers. Now, it is preparing a new product specifically […]

Ever heard of Oracle getting aggressive against competitors by publishing surprising claims in major international newspaper ads? Nah, can’t be possible. (Right.) Well, it’s true. Oracle is getting noisy in the data warehousing space. The case in point is an ad in the Wall Street Journal that claims its Exadata server performed so well that […]

Cloud storage gateway provider Nasuni this week launched a new service, rather plainly called Data Protection, that guarantees 100 percent, 24/7 availability for any data its customers store inside its partners’ clouds. That sentence isn’t a typo. There aren’t many guarantees anywhere, especially in the world of IT, but this apparently is one of them. […]

Oracle on July 21 announced that it has acquired Ksplice, whose software enables Linux administrators to perform system updates, bug fixes and security patches without having to take a system offline. Ksplice is a privately held company based in Cambridge, Mass. Oracle did not disclose terms of the deal. Oracle, which has customized its own […]

Gluster, one of the more creatively named IT companies here in the Valley of Silicon, issued a beta release of open-source GlusterFS 3.3 on July 20. This newest version of the virtual appliance-type file system for data storage enables access to the same data as both an object and as a file, which would be […]

Get the Teams Together Commission both a testing team and an advisory team that represents the requirements of end users. Know What You Have to Protect Conduct an initial discovery of what’s in your environment with each vendor to ensure the POC testing plan is representative of the specific infrastructure. Test Big Data Workloads Test […]

EMC’s storage, security and data center equipment juggernaut continues to sail right along, with the corporation posting record second-quarter results July 20 that included a 28-percent hike in profits year-over-year. The Hopkinton, Mass.-based company also increased the numbers in its analysts’ guidance for the year, and now expects to bring in nearly $20 billion for […]