Chris Preimesberger

IT management software maker SolarWinds had a big day Jan. 19, coming out with a spiffy new data center product and acquiring a company that will help it move into new markets.SolarWinds launched its new Application Performance Monitor, which offers visibility into the data center and provides a gateway for the company into the application […]

We love what the late, great former columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle Herb Caen used to call NamePhreaks: people or companies whose names are unusually fitting for what they do. For example, there have been baseball pitchers named Rollie Fingers, Phil Knuckles and Bill Hands. A recent NamePhreak would be Grant Balfour, whom the […]

Quest Software, which used to concentrate on producing software tools that made dealing with complicated Oracle database deployments bearable, continues to add to its catalog of cloud computing management products. The Aliso Viejo, Calif.-based company Jan. 18 announced it has completed the acquisition of data protection software maker BakBone Software, headquartered in San Diego. The […]

Deep beneath a glitzy New York City product launch Jan. 18 that included a couple of nonsensical stunts — 26 people cramming into a Mini Cooper and a daredevil motorcyle jumper flying over 40 side-by-side storage racks in Miami, Fla. — EMC revealed one all-important fact: The company has finally written new storage software that […]

We don’t hear about the company called Data Locker all that often, but what a great storage name that is. Anyway, the Overland Park, Kansas-based company made some news last week at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas when it unveiled its new encrypted USB 3.0 portable storage drive. The Locker DL3 features up […]

Study after study has been released lately talking about trends in future IT spending. Most of the ones eWEEK has seen are optimistic in outlook for 2011, following challenging years in 2008 and 2009 and an even-keeled 2010.IBM joined the bullish-thinking crowd Jan. 14 with a report of its own, and when IBM talks, people […]

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — To be selected as a first-string exhibit at the newly revamped Computer History Museum, you have to have a pretty significant technology to show off.Only about 2 percent of the hundreds of thousands of historic IT artifacts in the CHM collection are actually on display in exhibits. Computer-related treasures fill up […]

With data stores continuing to get out of hand in terms of management control, the ability to move loads quickly and efficiently within system and time limitations is paramount for data centers.A growing number of companies are coming out with products specifically for that purpose. A prominent one is San Jose, Calif.-based Alacritech, which has […]

Virtualization management software maker Embotics Jan. 12 announced that it has added new features to its V-Commander product suite, which is now designed specifically for managing private cloud infrastructures alongside VMware vSphere.Thus, Embotics’ management software now has the ability to automate and thus more efficiently bring “rogue” virtual machines under control that don’t comply with […]

A half-century has gone by since President John F. Kennedy declared his famous call to action on that frigid Inauguration Day, Jan. 20, 1961: “Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country.”Next week, the Boston-based John F. Kennedy Library & Museum will mark the anniversary with […]

Facebook recently made headlines with its approach to unifying messaging-e-mail, chat and texting-and making it possible to respond to any of those types of messages through its new Messages service with any device the user wants. It remains to be seen if that’s going to turn into a profit center for the world’s largest social […]

Network storage maker NetApp bolstered its presence in the virtualized computing sector Jan. 12 with the announcement that will acquire data center management software maker Akorri Networks.NetApp reported that this is an all-cash transaction without disclosing exactly how much cash it was going to spend.Five-year-old and privately held Akorri, based in Littleton, Mass., produces software […]