Chris Preimesberger

Intel on Dec. 29 launched a new set of mini-sized solid-state drives for dual-drive notebooks, tablet PCs and enbedded applications that the company claims provide performance as high as its larger SSDs.The 310 Series drives are sized at a mere 51mm-by-30mm and 5mm thick, about one-eighth the size of a current Intel 2.5-inch X25 flash […]

Adding insult to injury, a federal court judge ruled Dec. 28 that enterprise software maker SAP must pay Oracle prejudgment interest on its Nov. 23 $1.3 billion copyright infringement verdict, but it was about $195 million less than the amount requested by Oracle. After it won the monthlong jury-trial case in the Oakland, Calif. federal […]

If you get a chance, take a look at The Station’s end-of-the-year storage trends story on eWEEK’s main section. Some of the trends noted may be pretty obvious, such as the continued up-and-to-the-right growth of the data universe itself, which is beginning to cause real consternation in the storage administration community (see my report on […]

Lew Tucker, Cisco Systems’ new vice-president and chief technical officer for cloud computing systems, has a pretty significant mission for his company, which rapidly has been reinventing itself in the last two or three years.That would to be the “straw that stirs the drink” (a nod here to former baseball superstar Reggie Jackson, who made […]

At six-month intervals here at eWEEK, we offer a snapshot of important new and continuing trends in data storage. These are based upon daily conversations with storage vendors, analysts, data center managers, CIOs and CTOs.As we take a break at the end of 2010 to brace for the onslaught of new products and services to […]

eWEEK reported Dec. 27 that Apple is ordering between 20 million and 21 million more iPhones to sell in Q1 2011. Many of those will be ticketed for business use as company executives obtain them for their employees with the idea that they ultimately will help their businesses gain a new competitive advantage.iPhones aren’t the […]

Citrix CTO Simon Crosby looks back at 2010 in the cloud computing sector–and ahead at what 2011 may bring–and isn’t very comfortable with a number of things emerging on the security side of that very hot business.Crosby has become a go-to resource for knowledge in virtualization, cloud computing and data security. He was founder and […]

12 Important E-Discovery Trends for 2011 and Beyond by Chris Preimesberger New Sources of Data Will Become Routinely Sought in Discovery There once was a time that e-mail was not requested in discovery requests. Then there was a time when nobody asked for voicemail, IMs, text messages or social media posts. But now, each of […]

IBM has a big new international project on its agenda as of Dec. 22.Big Blue is going to show the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) how best to migrate wildly disparate computer systems to cloud computing, and the plan is for NATO to, in turn, take that information and promote more data sharing and cost […]

Oracle on Dec. 22 released a new version of its freely available virtual machine distribution software that enables desktop or laptop computers to run several operating systems simultaneously.Oracle VM VirtualBox 4.0, which supports several host operating systems-including Windows, Mac OS X, most flavors of Linux (including Oracle Linux) and Oracle Solaris-now features an easier-to-use interface […]

Teradata, the world’s largest independent data warehouse provider, revealed Dec. 22 that it intends to acquire Aprimo, which makes marketing support software, for $525 million in cash.Aprimo, founded in 1998 and based in Indianapolis, has a client base of more than 150,000 professionals worldwide, which includes customers employed at 36 of the Fortune 100 companies.Its […]

Synology, whose name sounds more like an advertising display company than a network storage provider, on Dec. 21 launched a new addition to its DiskStation product line. The Taiwan-based company’s new DS211+ desktop unit (it’s a tad smaller than a common two-slice toaster) is designed for budget-conscious users at $400 and is quite useful for […]