Chris Preimesberger

Fresh off the Dec. 2 launch of its smallest-ever (25nm) flash memory chip, Micron Technology on Jan. 5 hustled to unveil its newest solid-state drive for laptop computers using that chip: a 512GB monster that doubles the capacity of the company’s previous drive. The Boise, Idaho-based company made the announcement at the 2011 Storage Visions […]

Dynamic random access memory — aka DRAM — pricing continued to slip in December, as levels plunged to their lowest point of the year, market watcher iSuppli reported Jan. 4. DRAM is commonly used in servers of all types for boot-up and other purposes; it stores each bit of data in a separate capacitor within […]

EMC Iomega didn’t waste a minute at the outset of this new year in branching out into new territory. At the International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, the San Diego-based consumer division of EMC unveiled several new products Jan. 4: Web-enabled updates to its network storage drives to provide what it calls a “personal” […]

Hitachi Consulting, the global consulting division of Japan’s Hitachi Ltd., said Jan. 4 that it has acquired Oracle and Microsoft enterprise application developer Sierra Atlantic of Newark, Calif. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Because Sierra Atlantic has offshore development locations in Hyderabad, India, and Guangzhou, China, the acquisition is aimed at expanding Dallas-based […]

HPs PC Lineup for CES Boasts Touch Screens, HD Displays by Chris Preimesberger MultiTouch Goes Prime Time HP’s TouchSmart 310 PCs feature new high-definition touch-screen technology, something even Apple doesn’t yet have—MultiTouch. This enables users to move their fingers more naturally over the screen as they interact with content. It also enables a user to […]

Which electronics show is really the largest in the world: the annual CeBIT conference in Hannover, Germany in March, or the International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas each January? Both are certifiably huge. But CeBIT, which takes over up to 28 hangar-like exhibit halls in Hannover — a city whose No. 1 business is […]

Imation, a champion of the RDX cartridge-load storage trade, on Jan. 3 preannounced at the Storage Visions 2011 Conference in Las Vegas a new, eight-bay RDX drive for small and midsize businesses. An RDX multicartridge machine is a straight network-attached storage device that contains several hard-disk cartridges of interchangeable capacities with many of the properties […]

NetApps 11 Storage-Related Predictions for 2011 by Chris Preimesberger Virtualize First Becomes Corporate Mandate Most, if not all, companies will have adopted a “Virtualize First” policy for new applications. The rush of so-called millennials, (people born between 1980 and 2000) into the workforce will push the IT move to virtualize desktops and deliver mobile apps […]

As usual, the 2011 International Consumer Electronics Show (Jan. 6-9, 2011, in Las Vegas) promises to be loaded with interesting and innovative new products-mostly for consumers, of course.There will be a modest amount of enterprise-type IT also on display, although such products won’t be in the spotlight. Still, enterprises must be aware of CES because […]

Just when one starts believing that processors can’t possibly get much smaller and more powerful, storage can’t get much more capacious and networks can’t move data much faster, somebody always comes up with an IT breakthrough that reboots all that thinking.IBM Almaden Labs in San Jose, Calif., this week revealed that it has made significant […]

10 Most Important Data Storage Stories of 2010 by Chris Preimesberger No. 10March: Pocket Size 1TB HHDs Become Commonplace Toshiba, Seagate, WD and Iomega all came out with disk drives with capacities reaching 1 TB and above in 2010. Many of the devices can fit in a breast pocket. No. 9June: WD Passes Seagate, Now […]

11 Expert Predictions for Cloud IT in 2011 by Chris Preimesberger Mix of On-Premise, Cloud Resources Becomes Norm Now that SAAS and cloud computing have become generally accepted,??í IT and business decision makers are attempting to determine the right mix of on-demand and on-premise resources, how to integrate and manage them in a unified process, […]