Chris Preimesberger

A couple of days after VMware revealed its new vSphere 5 cloud systems management package, its owner, EMC, on July 14 launched some of its own new cloudware.EMC, which built its reputation by storing and securing data in physical quarters, has been working up a new storage management platform for cloud deployments for about two […]

With VMware’s launch of vSphere 5 on July 12, the company that has produced a lot of complicated IT designed expressly for IT experts has come up with a new angle: Cloud infrastructure for the rest of the business set.While that certainly is an over simplication, simplification is really where VMware is aiming. With a […]

How Features All Stack Up vSphere 5 is an amalgamation of storage, security and virtualization controls for cloud deployments. This consists of centralized business continuity, monitoring and management, policy-making, and reporting functions, replacing all those individual applications that many data centers have to cobble together. Momentum for Virtualized Workloads Continues According to VMware, the world’s […]

Oracle, which has about 1,000 big data-type Exadata storage systems currently running in customers’ daily production but whose CEO expects that number to triple in the next year, is looking ahead at what the expected increase might require. So the company on July 12 made available an Exadata Storage Expansion Rack, something the company calls […]

SAN FRANCISCO-A significant number of IT professionals already know this and aren’t going to like hearing it, but VMware CEO Paul Maritz believes that “most people just want [IT] infrastructure to go away.” So VMware is here to help enterprises do this by selling them vSphere 5, a new cloud computing infrastructure suite it launched […]

Facebook Closing In on 1 Billion Members Facebook announced that it has surpassed the 750 million-member mark, and it is setting its sights on hitting 1 billion fairly soon. Mark Zuckerberg virtually shrugged off the accomplishment as if it wasn’t a big deal. “The reason why we didn’t report it is we don’t think it’s […]

Oracle, one of the few big IT companies that isn’t marketing some sort of tablet computer, nonetheless moved into the periphery of the genre with its July 6 launch of a new virtual desktop client for iPads. Now available free on the App Store, the Oracle Virtual Desktop Client App for iPad provides access to […]

PALO ALTO, Calif. — Facebook made three significant announcements July 6, all important to the company and to the online social networking market in different ways. First, Facebook announced that it has surpassed the 750 million-member mark, with a cool 1 billion clearly within reach. The last time Facebook talked about its membership last October, […]

Identify the Foundational Controls Foundational controls are core to an organization’s security philosophy. They represent maybe 60 security controls (or less), which protect the assets your organization values most. Focusing on them will ensure that as your business embraces cloud technologies, your approach is consistent with the security controls. Focus on the Workload Security in […]

SANTA CLARA, Calif. – Apache Hadoop, the data analytics science project that has been ensconced in Yahoo’s nurturing cocoon for the last half-dozen years, has grown up and broken through its shell into the real world. From a business standpoint, Hadoop officially made its break June 29 from Yahoo to be shepherded by a new […]

REDWOOD CITY, Calif. — Twenty-four hours after Oracle made the acquisition of struggling new-generation storage provider Pillar Data Systems, it called customers and partners together here at its headquarters campus on the shores of San Francisco Bay to explain why. After all, Oracle is still ingesting Sun Microsystems’ extensive enterprise disk and tape storage businesses […]

Yahoo Creates Hortonworks to Lead Hadoop On June 29, Hortonworks (named after the Dr. Seuss elephant) was created as an independent, privately held, VC-funded company to lead the Hadoop community and market the open-source product into the future. Its parent, Yahoo, is now one of its customers. Hadoop Is No Longer a Science Experiment Yahoo […]