Chris Preimesberger

If consumer software makers don’t know this by now, they must be living in some other world. It’s now mandatory to make your application work on devices other than notebook and desktop PCs. They had better be optimizing their handiwork for smartphones, connected music players and tablets, or they’ll be missing the train. Cloud storage […]

Bet you didn’t know that today, March 31, is World Backup Day. There are those who believe this should not only be a national holiday, but an international holiday. If a system or disk death hasn’t already happened to you already, rest assured that your day will come. You will switch on your computer some […]

Cisco Systems has been making a large deal about converged data center hardware infrastructures for more than two years with its Unified Computing System, as increased functionality gets wedged into smaller components and servers and routers-and as Cisco got into the server business. Now the world’s biggest IT networking company and newbie data center systems […]

NASA said March 30 that it has decided to enact a third one-year option on a contract with Computer Sciences Corp. to provide supercomputing support services at NASA’s Ames Research Center at Moffett Federal Airfield in Mountain View, Calif. The option is valued at approximately $58.6 million, the aeronautics agency said. The option exercised on […]

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.-NASA has a simple, one-word answer for those who have ever asked any of the following questions: Does the U.S. government use open-source software in research, testing and production? Does it develop its own software and work within a community in an open-source manner? And does it distribute open-source software back to the […]

AFCOM, the international association of data center managers and enterprise IT executives, confirmed on March 30 what many people in the business are already well aware of: That a high number of data centers are not fully protected from potential disasters which, in turn, could bring their enterprises to their knees. The March 11 earthquake […]

PALO ALTO, Calif. — Hewlett-Packard’s new chief executive, L??«o Apotheker, got a bit more detailed March 29 about how and where he will be leading the world’s largest IT company in the future. Apotheker, who joined the company as CEO last Nov. 1 in replacing the deposed Mark Hurd, didn’t have to travel too far […]

SugarSync, which operates a popular file sync, backup and file-sharing service, made some news this week. In case you haven’t heard of it, SugarSync 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 […]

Storage startup Kaminario, which makes high-performance DRAM-based appliances for high-velocity business applications, March 28 revealed that it is lowering the price and increasing the capacity for its K2 DRAM storage appliance. Kaminario uses its home-developed, modular Scale-out Performance Architecture (SPEAR) inside its high-availability appliances. This enables flexible scaling of the K2’s performance and/or capacity, depending […]

Cisco’s TelePresence, the first high-definition virtual meeting system to transmit full-size, high-quality video images capable of conveying body language and excellent sound quality, has been moving right along on the market pathway since its introduction in 2006. As an alternative to increasingly expensive personal travel, the idea resonated immediately in large enterprises around the world, […]

Intel, which has been putting more and more emphasis on its solid-state drive business since moving into it full force in 2009 with its partner, Micron, on March 28 started shipping the third generation of its SSD 320 series on 25-nanometer NAND flash memory. The SSD 320, the next generation of Intel’s client product line […]

Foremay, a 9-year-old storage company based in Pasadena, Calif., with offices in Norway, Korea, China and Taiwan, made some news March 24 with the announcement of its first disk-on-chip solid-state hard drive. The company’s OC177 SSD is a NAND flash drive that measures only 22x22x1.8 mm. The thin and light chip, dubbed DOC, supports standard […]