Chris Preimesberger

Software as a service platform provider Adaptive Computing on Feb. 14 released a new version of its frontline Moab Adaptive Computing Suite, which has been redesigned to handle so-called “big data” private-cloud system deployments-meaning petabyte-level and larger storage and workloads.The new Moab software package is optimized to satisfy growing enterprise demand for deploying IAAS (infrastructure […]

Backing up often far-flung laptops is a headache most IT managers would prefer not to endure. Druva, a 3-year-old Mountain View, Calif.-based company that specializes in this, feels the pain and has a remedy for it. The company on Feb. 10 announced its Druva inSync 4.1 Enterprise, a first-of-its-kind application that automates backups of portable […]

VMware revealed Feb. 8 that it is delving deeper into the data-center services business to build new hybrid cloud deployments with its vCloud infrastructure. The world’s largest virtualization software provider is now partnering with three new cloud services integrators: BlueLock (based in the United States), Colt Technology Services (based in Europe) and Verizon Communications (global). […]

To cover the mass production of some 80 new touch tablet PCs flowing to eager consumers, the NAND flash memory business will need to produce a huge amount more solid-state chips in 2011 over 2010 totals, industry analyst IHS iSuppli reported Feb. 11.Consumption of the solid-state memory for processors used in the super-popular tablets is […]

Enterprise-only unified messaging social networks have gained momentum in recent months, especially since the introduction of Salesforce.com’s Chatter, which has brought some new gravitas to the space. Yammer also has had a growing stake in the sector for the last few years and has done a respectable job. And Facebook, with its Messages app launched […]

SAN FRANCISCO-You never know how significant a product launch event can be. Fresh in mind was a big one Feb. 9 here at the Fort Mason waterfront for HP’s two new webOS-driven smartphones and the TouchPad tablet PC.This might turn out to be one of the most important launches in HP’s long and celebrated history […]

Facebook confirmed Feb. 8 what eWEEK reported on Feb. 4: That the world’s largest social network has acquired the 57-acre former Sun Microsystems campus in Menlo Park, Calif., now owned by Oracle, to use as its future world headquarters. The company also revealed that it has bought two neighboring parcels across the highway and a […]

Hewlett-Packard, whose new CEO says he wants the company to become known as a “cool” computer maker, unveiled its new spring line of desktop PCs Feb. 7. There are certainly some new features in these machines that fit his description. CEO Leo Apotheker said recently in an interview with the BBC at the Davos international […]

Oracle on Feb. 7 introduced a new storage file system for applications running in a private cloud, called-appropriately enough-Oracle Cloud File System. The new file system automates much of a system’s storage data management capabilities and institutes storage pooling across files, middleware and applications in a cloud. The idea is to extend cloud characteristics to […]

Pangaea Media, which makes the SecureDrives storage line, isn’t bashful about describing its wares. It cuts right to the quick to tout its portable SSDs as “the world’s most secure solid-state drives.” Argue that if you will. We suppose some of you might. The 3-year-old UK-based storage-device maker will be unveiling a set of these […]

Virtualized storage software maker DataCore, which focuses mainly on the midrange market, has come out with a new software package aimed at hurdling throughput-related barriers that commonly plague older systems. The Fort Lauderdale, Fla.-based company describes its newest version of SANsymphony as the way to get stalled desktop and server virtualization projects going again. The […]

Next Tuesday, Feb. 8, rapidly expanding Facebook apparently will announce that it has bought itself a new headquarters — the former Sun Microsystems campus in Menlo Park, Calif., located on the shores of the San Francisco Bay.The world’s largest and busiest social networking company, which has not officially confirmed this, is planning a media event […]