Chris Preimesberger

Data backup and recovery specialist Acronis has introduced a new version of its frontline product that adds the automated protection of cloud-stored data alongside that of virtual and physical on-site systems.Acronis Backup & Recovery 11, announced May 3 for availability in June, is aimed at midrange and smaller businesses and remote offices within larger enterprises. […]

There’s no question that Red Hat, long the world market leader in open source-based enterprise Linux development, is doing what Cisco Systems, Oracle and a large number of other established IT companies have had to do. And that would be to expand markets by shifting a big part of their strategy to cloud systems development, […]

Tri-Gate 3D Transistors: Low Power or High Performance Intel Senior Fellow Mark Bohr, who’s been working on the 3D transistors for a full decade, said the capabilities give chip designers the flexibility to choose transistors targeted for low power or high performance, depending on the application. “Of course, the Tri-Gates are very capable at both,” […]

Abiquo Abiquo, Redwood City, Calif., has an open-source management platform for private, public and hybrid clouds using a globally deployed computing infrastructure that can be accessed through a single control dashboard. Abiquo says its customers are able to decrease the cost/complexity of managing their virtual IT environments while maintaining control of the physical infrastructure and […]

SAN FRANCISCO-Intel, after a decade of research and development, is adding a literal new dimension to those microscopic transistors that fill up IT processors.Remember transistors? Those are the millions, and often billions, of microscopic elements embedded inside chips that make all of the digital devices we use actually work-something that most people don’t know or […]

San Diego, Calif.-based backup/disaster recovery appliance maker Arkeia Software on May 2 released a simple upgrade to provide what it calls “source-side Progressive Deduplication” for all the appliances it has shipped since July 2007. Firmware retrofit, here we come! The upgrade adds the new features in Arkeia Network Backup Version 9.0 — including two-phase backups […]

Talk about a mass enterprise migration to a single new device-to the Apple iPad, naturally. If you’re a software developer, independent or otherwise, and you’re not revamping your application to run on the world’s most popular tablet PC, then how out of sync are you with the rest of the IT world? Oracle’s certainly not […]

In yet another move of a standard, server-based application to an offsite alternative, Symantec revealed May 3 that its venerable and market-leading BackUp Exec will be adding a cloud-based option later this year. The company made the announcement–one of several, in fact–at its annual Symantec Vision conference in Las Vegas. Symantec’s Backup Exec.cloud, aimed at […]

Cisco Systems famously shut down one of its businesses recently when it closed the Flip camera operation, but it is also expanding in other sectors-namely, the data center arena. Now the Internet networking giant is moving its Unified Computing System, or UCS, into the portable container data center market, similar to what IBM, the former […]

Midmarket storage systems maker Nexsan on April 29 claimed to be the first company to make available the option of using 3TB Serial ATA hard drives in an enterprise-class storage system. That kind of storage density works out to about 45TB of usable storage per 1U storage unit within an array. No other vendor can […]

The royal wedding of Prince Charles and Princess Diana attracted a huge television audience from virtually every corner of the world in pre-Internet year 1981. As one might expect, the IT communication flow around the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge (William and Kate) wedding on April 29 brought one-day international messaging and shared video to […]

The U.S. Congress and President Obama are at war trying to come to terms on cutting back federal expenses in order to ease the constant strain on the overall trade deficit, last calculated to be $14 trillion. Well, here’s something those politicos should be able to agree upon: saving a cool $18 billion by virtualizing […]