Chris Preimesberger

It’s pretty well-known by now that Dell is determined to change its whole approach to providing IT products and services. But its evolution in the last five years-and especially in the last 18 to 24 months-has been nothing short of stunning. The company that originally was called PC’s Unlimited (pictured) and that made its mark […]

People are using Apple iPads, Samsung Galaxys, HP Slates and Motorola Xoom tablet PCs for anything and everything. If you can get used to the smaller keys and flat surface for typing, there really are few things you cannot do on a tablet that you normally do on a PC. Up to now, though, digital […]

A couple of rising players in the virtual services world , cloud automation software provider Quest Software and virtual desktop software maker MokaFive, announced a new partnership April 14. The result is Quest vWorkspace/MokaFive Suite, a local VDI (virtual desktop infrastructure) package that manages, secures and delivers virtual desktops to Windows and Mac laptops and […]

NAND flash chip development has taken its latest step forward. Only four months after it started shipping its ClearNAND 25-nanometer Flash processor, partners Intel and Micron Technology’s joint venture, IM Flash Technologies, on April 14 introduced a 20-nm process for manufacturing even smaller solid-state memory. The new process produces an 8GB, multi-level cell (MLC) NAND […]

Seagate’s i365 storage division April 12 launched a new cloud-based backup/recovery and data security service designed for laptop and desktop PCs. EVault Endpoint Protection automates the chore of PC backup and recovery in as many enterprise machines as needed. It also helps control the spread of sensitive data to the outside or throughout a mobile […]

At this still-early stage of the cloud IT era, a software vendor coming up with a bulletproof operating system for running public, private or hybrid clouds could find itself in a golden position in the future. Usual-suspect candidates at this point include hypervisor developers VMware, Citrix and Microsoft, as well as systems providers Hewlett-Packard, IBM, […]

Cleaning up and reorganizing after a small database blows up is tough enough, but when an Oracle or other large enterprise deployment breaks, many an administrator has found it necessary to call in the reserves for help. Kroll Ontrack has come up with its own approach to the problem of data loss. The Minneapolis-based storage […]

Red Hat, whose enterprise Linux operating system and middleware runs a lot of the world’s enterprise IT systems, nonetheless has stood on the sidelines for several years while the cloud infrastructure folks have been churning out loads of new software. The reason for this is clear: Up to now, the venerable Linux vendor hasn’t had […]

April 11, 2011, was a memorable legal day for Facebook and its co-founder and CEO, Mark Zuckerberg. One lengthy bit of litigation is petering out, while one is just starting up. The first lawsuit-so long-term in nature (eight years) that a feature film about it has come and gone-ground to a halt when a federal […]

It seems as if all IT software and hardware development is positioned toward-or at least trying to be in the same picture with-cloud computing these days. MySQL is the latest product to plop onto the cloud bandwagon. On Day 1 of the Oracle Users Group’s Collaborate 2011 conference in Orlando, Fla., Oracle’s MySQL group on […]

An appellate court judge ruled April 11 that because Facebook co-founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg is now a resident of California, a New York man’s lawsuit claiming part ownership of Facebook should remain in federal court rather than be moved to a New York state court. The plaintiff, Paul Ceglia, also filed a second complaint […]

Here’s unusual news in this era of exploding data stores: A major player is shutting down, not expanding, some of its cloud storage services. Iron Mountain Digital, which got into the cloud storage race late in 2009, told eWEEK April 11 that it is “retiring” its commodity-type public storage services, Virtual File Store and Archive […]