Chris Preimesberger

WOODSIDE, Calif.–President Barack Obama, his entourage fighting through a driving rain and wind storm, visited the tiny hamlet of Woodside Feb. 17 for a dinner with the captains of the IT industry to talk mostly about job creation and education.It was Obama’s eighth visit to the Bay Area and the first that didn’t involve political […]

President Barack Obama, on a tour of Intel’s Hillsboro, Ore., chip fabrication plant Feb. 18 with the company’s President and CEO Paul Otellini, was happy to hear the news that the world’s largest IT processor maker will build its newest such facility on U.S. soil.Otellini told the president and a crowd at the Oregon plant […]

Stockholders of networking and middleware provider Novell voted at a special meeting Feb. 17 to accept the merger agreement made Nov. 21, 2010, with Attachmate Corp. and Longview Software Acquisition Corp.Attachmate Corp. will spend $2.2 billion in cash, or $6.10 per share, for Waltham, Mass.-based Novell, which has been beset by financial problems for several […]

Despite fears in some industry quarters that storage systems makers have begun losing financial ground to cloud service providers, NetApp on Feb. 16 reported that its overall revenues are up 25 percent from a year ago, beating Wall Street projections.However, it wasn’t all good news for the company. Based on a weaker-than-expected profit forecast, the […]

SAN FRANCISCO – Apparently, security involving former IT employees of enterprises has more holes in it than most people think. According to a survey released Feb. 16 that canvassed more than 1,000 employees and 500 IT decision makers in the U.S., 10 percent of IT professionals admit they have retained secure access to corporate systems […]

With the news that the dynamic random access memory market is heating up to unprecedented demand in 2011, it’s logical that the sales leader in this segment is licking its chops at more potential profits. Solid-state market analyst IHS iSuppli reported Feb. 16 that South Korea’s Samsung Electronics continued to increase its already commanding percentage […]

Sold-state drive maker SandForce reported a milestone Feb. 14 in that it has shipped more than 1 million of its SF-1500 and SF-1200 SSD processors since they went into production in 2010. In addition, SandForce’s 27 manufacturers shipped more than 100 petabytes of NAND flash into mainstream computing markets in 2010, the company said. The […]

BridgeSTOR, a new company that makes modular enterprise storage appliances that start at 3TB capacities and can scale to about 30TB, is trying to entice potential customers by offering a free storage information instrument.The Poway, Calif.-based company, which launched only last November, on Feb. 15 started shipping its Virtual Storage-Advanced Data Reduction Simulator tool, which […]

SAN FRANCISCO — Two data security companies that clash in several IT sectors have decided that it’s better to work together in two of them: security management and risk/compliance management.The announcement was made Feb. 15 at the RSA conference, being held at the Moscone Center through Feb. 18.Rest assured that the two competitors will continue […]

SAN FRANCISCO – IBM, a name that doesn’t automatically say data or network security-even though it indicates just about everything else in the IT business-on Feb. 15 introduced a new appliance designed to strengthen a company’s existing network security. The announcement was made at the RSA Conference here at the Moscone Center. The IBM Network […]

Cloud computing’s software-as-a-service model may one day dominate the world of IT, but across the vast expanse of the world’s IT departments, that morning hasn’t yet seen its dawn. For all its efficiency, cost savings and centralized control, SAAS hasn’t yet convinced most of the world’s IT decision makers that it is worth a leap […]

Removable storage device maker Imation introduced some larger-capacity additions to its Defender product line along with some upgraded security software Feb. 14 at the RSA Conference in San Francisco. The Minnesota-based company unveiled 64GB versions of its Defender F100, F150 and F200 +Biometric Flash Drives, and will be demonstrating them on the conference show floor. […]