Chris Preimesberger

Online file backup provider SugarSync on April 25 launched a rebuilt application for Android devices that features SugarSync’s primary market differentiator, AutoSync. AutoSync synchronizes files and folders between any combination of Macs, Windows PCs, iOS and Android smartphones, and iPads-with all files backed up to the SugarSync cloud. All data is then instantly available from […]

Okay, so Amazon Web Services, one of the largest, most secure and most trusted Web services in the world, showed a vulnerability April 21 when it went down for hours, taking some busy Websites with it. Thankfully, this doesn’t happen every day, or even every year. So what else is new? No site on the […]

Amazon.com reported that problems that shut down some of its Web services-namely its Elastic Compute Cloud, Relational Database Service and Elastic Beanstalk-still hadn’t been completely resolved by late afternoon April 22, more than 40 hours after they went offline. The most critical outage started at 1:41 a.m. PDT April 21 at an AWS (Amazon Web […]

Chip maker Advanced Micro Devices barely edged past Wall Street projections in its first-quarter earnings report, released April 21, and declared that demand appears strong for its accelerated processing units. Sunnyvale, Calif.-based AMD also said it expects second-quarter revenue to be “flat to slightly down sequentially.” The company reported earnings of $510 million (68 cents […]

PALO ALTO, Calif.-President Obama on April 20 made his first appearance at Facebook’s California Avenue headquarters, discussing a number of topics in a town hall-type setting in which he engaged attendees both onsite and through a live Facebook Webcast. It was Obama’s ninth visit to the Bay Area (pictured at San Francisco International Airport). His […]

Earnings reports from storage and data protection giant EMC may be getting somewhat repetitive each quarter, but they are certainly not ho-hum for EMC management, employees and shareholders. The Hopkinton, Mass.-based corporation on April 20 again reported revenue that exceeded Wall Street projections to go with healthy profit margins, as it has for a string […]

Try not to roll your eyes at this statement: Virtual desktops for enterprises large and small are now a ready-for-prime-time alternative to conventional client-server networks. Yes, you undoubtedly have heard that one before-about every year since 1998, or perhaps even earlier than that. But thanks to widespread broadband availability, vastly improved networking hardware and software […]

VMware in its first-quarter earnings report April 19 outperformed Wall Street projections and then adjusted its guidance up for its margins this year.Company executives told listeners on the quarterly conference call that VMware had picked up a large number of new customers in the first quarter, many of whom were buying VMware View for cloud […]

The April 18 news about Samsung Electronics slapping an official “For Sale” sign on its hard disk drive manufacturing business was barely through the news cycle when the second-largest player in the world market, Seagate Technology, went to the bank, counted out $1.375 billion and offered to take it over. Samsung, of course, accepted on […]

Network hardware maker TE Connectivity, which used call itself Tyco Electronics until a few months ago, has found its own entryway into the data center monitoring and control business. The Minneapolis-based corporation on April 18 launched Quareo, a new connection-point product that uses embedded chips inside cables to keep track of whatever is going through […]

EMC is getting busy cross-pollinating more of its storage intellectual property within its corporate domain. The storage and data protection giant on April 18 launched version 6.0 of its Avamar deduplication backup software, which is news all by itself. But a further angle is that this marks the first time EMC has orchestrated the integration […]

Korea’s Samsung Electronics is mulling the idea of unloading its hard disk-drive business so that it can concentrate on research and development in tablet PCs, solid-state processors and other higher-growth areas, according to an April 18 report in the Wall Street Journal.The Journal said that Samsung is looking to sell its HDD division for $1.5 […]