Chris Preimesberger

Hewlett-Packard CEO L??«o Apotheker and a reconfigured board of directors made some key changes June 13 in the company’s leadership, relieving three longtime executives of their positions. On the way out of HP’s day-to-day operations management after 29 years is Ann Livermore, 52, whose current position is head of HP Enterprise Services. Livermore, however, has […]

VMware made a move into the business-management software as a service sector June 13 by acquiring Israel-based Digital Fuel. Terms of the transaction were not released by either company, but Globes, an Israeli business Website that has covered the burgeoning IT scene in that country for a long while, reported that the deal cost VMware […]

One-Touch Control Inside Smart Cars Open your phone, turn on your car’s computer, push one or two buttons on the Intel-based software, and everything is interconnected—to the phone and to services in the cloud. The synchronization software has long been an issue with on-board IT, but not anymore thanks to Intel’s client-to-cloud extensible architecture based […]

Fusion-io, one of the more innovative users of NAND flash for enterprise data centers, staged its initial public offering June 9 and did very well in its first day on the New York Stock Exchange. Fusion-io (NYSE: FIO), probably best known for hiring Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak as its chief scientist, originally had expected to […]

Samsung Electronics on June 9 launched its first 1TB internal hard disk drive for use in notebooks and other mobile PCs.The Spinpoint M8 consists of two 500GB platters in a 9.5mm-height form factor, so as to fit into a high number of portable computers.Samsung said the 550GB high density in each disk was achieved by […]

Industry researcher IDC came out June 9 with a report that suggests the hard drive industry should re-evaluate its priorities if it’s going to hang tough against the powerful onslaught of solid-state drives in consumer and enterprise markets. IDC projects that HDD industry revenue potentially can grow from $33.4 billion in 2010 to $48.2 billion […]

It’s noteworthy that both Hewlett-Packard and Dell, which each bought young, progressive storage companies last year, have taken their prized new IP and made it the centerpieces of their storage strategies only months after closing the deals. We’re not sure exactly what that says about the older storage products those well-established systems makers have been […]

Hewlett-Packard is going in storage where many systems makers have trod before. The difference is that this is “The HP Way” of building and selling storage systems. Literally, the company is going by the book, so to speak, by not necessarily innovating, but in acquiring the best IT it can get its hands on and […]

Performance Artists at the Gate A colorful group of dancers greeted some 5,200 Apple software developers who lined up starting about three hours ahead of Steve Jobs’ keynote address to start the 2011 WWDC conference at Moscone West in San Francisco. OSX Lion Rules over His Territory Apple introduced the latest version of its Unix-based […]

Data center software management specialist Precise on June 2 launched an upgraded software package aimed at accelerating the transaction performance of enterprise applications, many of which are struggling to handle larger and larger data sets as time goes on. Using the server-based Precise Virtual Appliance, IT managers now can deploy a new-generation version of transaction […]

Enterprise laptop backup and retrieval specialist Druva, one of the more creative company names to come to the fore lately, has released an upgraded version of its product. Druva SafePoint, data loss-prevention software for Windows-running laptop computers and other mobile devices, has added file-level encryption, NSA (National Security Agency)-class remote data wipe-out, and improved device […]

Sir Paul McCartney, who’s way past 64 (hard to believe he’ll be 69 on June 18), is really getting into IT lately. His new personal cloud archive and CRM system, designed and built by Hewlett-Packard, opened for business the other day, showcasing many of his newly digitized collected assets from a half-century of trotting the […]