Chris Preimesberger

Dell, knowing that the trend toward virtual desktops is still ramping up, isn’t wasting any time moving ahead with its virtual desktop infrastructure and thin-client product lines. The company on May 25 introduced an enhanced Dell Virtual Lab 2.0 package, aimed at educational use cases, along with new Dell OptiPlex FX170 and FX130 thin-client offerings. […]

Myth 1: My legacy business-critical applications are married to the underlying hardware; changing the platform is a major undertaking. Truth: Virtualizing an application is very different from re-platforming and is a much simpler undertaking, since a virtual machine encapsulates the entire OS and application. While infrastructure best practices must be followed, there’s typically no modification […]

Virtual desktop infrastructure provider MokaFive, which serves up its flavor of VDI on the client and supplies a server-based corporate desktop through a separate window, on May 25 launched a new bare-metal hypervisor for its MokaFive Suite 3.0. MokaFive BareMetal is a client hypervisor that installs directly onto the hard drive of a PC, Mac […]

Little MapR Technologies on May 25 revealed a new software licensing agreement with data storage and security giant EMC to add its intellectual property to EMC’s new Apache Hadoop analytics distribution. San Jose, Calif.-based MapR will become a key part of EMC’s Greenplum HD Enterprise Edition, a 100 percent interface-compatible implementation of the Apache Hadoop […]

A recently announced deal between longtime partners Dell and SAP involving a new in-memory application and storage appliance could turn out to be a significant landmark in the data center business. As a result of this partnership, announced last week at SAP’s Sapphire conference in Orlando, Fla., SAP’s customers will be able to deploy their […]

If you’ve got a complicated enterprise relational database-specifically Oracle DB-helping run your business, you now can subscribe to a new cloud service that can help make your life a whole lot easier. Amazon Web Services on May 24 launched its own Amazon Relational Database Service specifically for use with Oracle Database 11g Release 2. Amazon […]

Scale-out data protection provider Sepaton on May 23 added to its future product line with a pair of new storage systems aimed specifically at large enterprises with remote offices. The new S2100-DS3 Series 1000 and 2000 systems, now in beta testing, are designed to bring the same type of high-end data protection to remote offices […]

Citrix Systems (Nasdaq: CTXS) revealed May 23 that it intends to acquire Cupertino, Calif.-based virtual desktop software maker Kaviza. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.Kaviza and Citrix, of nearby Santa Clara, Calif., have been strategic partners since April 2010, so the transaction was not a big surprise to industry insiders.Kaviza’s VDI-in-a-Box, a plug-and-play virtual […]

How’s this for a deal: Get all your PC’s files (unlimited capacity) backed up to the cloud, have them easily restored when you need them, and then have your notebook PC notify you of its location if it gets lost or stolen-all for $5 per month. It’s all true. That’s what upstart Backblaze now offers. […]

With all the iPads and iPad 2’s flying out of Apple stores, many of which holding only relatively small amounts of application and file storage, it would be a welcome thing to have easily accessible additional storage to go with it.After all, iPads and most other tablet devices only carry a limited amount of on-board […]

No Intel Smartphones Until 2012 Intel CEO Paul Otellini had to deliver the news that the company won’t be coming out with smartphones in 2011, thanks to a major partnership with Nokia that dissolved in February. “We have freed up those resources and turned that design into a form factor/reference design. We’re shopping that now […]

SAN FRANCISCO–There are 815,358 residents of San Francisco County, according to the 2010 U.S. census. Only one of them was asked to host the president of the United States when he visited the Bay Area on April 20: Marc Benioff. That was the day President Obama held a well-chronicled town hall-type Q&A session with Mark […]