Chris Preimesberger

Enterprise-level e-mail security, compliance and archiving aren’t functions that one would readily equate with a cloud service, but Proofpoint is showing the IT market how to do it.The Sunnyvale, Calif., company on March 15 released Proofpoint Mobile, an application suite that adds e-mail security, compliance and archiving capabilities to mobile devices.The software runs on Proofpoint’s […]

SAN JOSE, Calif.-IDC’s frontman, Senior Vice President and Chief Analyst Frank Gens, sees a significant fork in the IT road in 2011 similar to one that happened 25 years ago.Back in 1986, PCs and desktop computers were 5 years old and starting to work their way into daily use in dedicated enterprise networks and home […]

Many IT industry people believe that the incorporation of cloud computing services and systems is the single most impactful trend in data center construction and management, and all the indicators certainly point in that direction. In sanctioning this, market researcher Gartner is venturing further, declaring that there are no fewer than four important forces now […]

Amazon Web Services, which launched its first product (Simple Storage Service) five years ago this month, revealed March 15 that it has redesigned the access to its Virtual Private Cloud service. Users now can set up their own virtual networks within the Amazon cloud that they can control just as they control their own physical […]

SAN FRANCISCO-In his first meet-the-press-and-analyst conference, new Hewlett-Packard chief executive Leo Apotheker on March 14 laid out in both general and in specific terms where he wants to take the IT giant in the next two years. In the process, Apotheker revealed that HP is about to roll out a new platform-as-a-service business for cloud […]

Uncertainty surrounding the horrendous March 11 earthquake and tsunami in Japan has disrupted some aspects of the dynamic random access memory and NAND flash businesses in that stricken country. Raymond James Equity Research wrote in a media advisory March 14 that most DRAM players have ceased “spot” price quoting activity since March 11 as a […]

The 8.9-magnitude March 11 earthquake off the northeast coast of Japan and its subsequent Pacific Ocean tsunami destroyed and severely damaged several cities and towns on the island of Honshu, knocking out utilities and communications connections that impacted much of the Pacific Rim.It isn’t immediately known how many IT facilities or data centers were washed […]

Application-performance-management software maker Precise on March 11 updated its bread-and-butter product that manages quality of service in data centers. Precise v9.0 provides a single, Web-based control panel for application, database and storage managers to analyze data in transit, identify and isolate bottlenecks, and solve delivery problems. The newest version of the product now allows IT […]

Novell’s $2.2 billion acquisition by Attachmate, approved by shareholders of both companies last month, has run into some legal snags.The deal hinges largely on the sale of 882 patents to a Microsoft-led consortium of vendors. As might be expected, due diligence by the U.S. Department of Justice and the Securities and Exchange Commission in examining […]

High-performance computer maker SGI has decided to buy SGI for $18 million in cash. Yes, you read that correctly. Fremont, Calif.-based SGI, once a power in the desktop workstation business as Silicon Graphics Inc., revealed March 9 that it has acquired all outstanding shares of its namesake, SGI Japan, Ltd., from a consortium of investors. […]

Dell and longtime virtualization partners Citrix and VMware unveiled on March 10 some new enterprise desktop virtualization packages. Dell’s Desktop Virtualization Solutions can be cloud- or locally-based and are comprised of prepackaged services with pretested hardware and software, Dell Director of Solutions Program Management Terry Vaughn told eWEEK. Citrix and/or VMware supply the virtual desktop […]

SANTA CLARA, Calif. – Just as there is a trend toward convergence of functionality in data center systems these days, there is an equal amount of convergence among entire companies in the data-storage sector. NetApp on March 9 joined the ranks of companies adding “big data” storage capabilities when it announced the acquisition of LSI […]