Chris Preimesberger

Open-source advocates have been wondering where OpenOffice, Sun Microsystems’ office applications suite alternative, was going to land following the acquisition of the company by Oracle. Now there’s news on this front. Oracle renewed its commitment to the product on Dec. 15 when it launched two rebranded professional versions of the package: OpenOffice 3.3 for desktops […]

Come get your free storage — again. Pro Softnet a few days ago introduced a beta version of iDriveSync, a cloud storage service that can sync up to five PCs and share functionality as many as 50 PCs. iDriveSync is now competing with more established services such as DropBox, Box.net, SugarSync, Mozy and Carbonite. Likewise, […]

HP on Dec. 14 launched a new support package for virtualized ProLiant servers aimed at improving performance and availability of key business applications.The HP Critical Advantage service provides clients with an assigned account team to deliver support and maintain uptime of business-critical, virtualized environments. These teams specialize in problem resolution and process improvement, enabling IT […]

Storage giant EMC, which lately has been positioning itself more often as a provider of cloud computing infrastructure, on Dec. 14 launched what it claims is the industry’s first self-service cloud-enablement platform for storage.EMC’s Atmos Cloud Delivery Platform, aimed at ISPs, storage providers and large enterprises that want to resell or redistribute cloud services, incorporates […]

Dell, by announcing Dec. 13 that it is acquiring Compellent Technologies for $960 million, may have pure-lucked its way into a sweet deal. Back on Sept. 2, when the Round Rock, Texas-based PC, server and storage maker surrendered to Hewlett-Packard after a 10-day bidding war, enabling HP to buy storage provider 3PAR for $2.3 billion, […]

Symantecs Storage Trends for 2011: Virtualization Remains King Edited by Chris Preimesberger More GapsWill Appear in Disaster Recovery for Virtual Environments The number of applications and amount of data in virtual environments will grow significantly in 2011, increasing the need for disaster recovery solutions that protect these applications.??í??íA recent survey??ífound little more than half of […]

Amazing. As soon as The Station headed out of town for a few vacation days Dec. 9 to attend a wedding near Palm Springs, the news comes out that Dell is in negotiations to buy Minnesota-based Compellent. Hello! How in the world did this take so long? We’ve been saying for more than two years […]

Oracle on Dec. 8 launched Exalogic Elastic Cloud X2-2, a new-generation Java application infrastructure for virtual machines.The announcement was made at OracleOpenWorld Brazil in Sao Paulo.The Elastic Cloud X2-2 is the cloud middleware expressly designed for Oracle’s SPARC Exalogic, which is the company’s new hardware platform for cloud systems. Its sister product, Exadata, is the […]

ExaGrid Systems, a rising disk storage backup provider, Dec. 8 announced that it has upgraded its EX1000 through EX5000 line of products by making them faster and less power-hungry. The company claimed that the new, physically smaller boxes are faster [by anywhere from 25 percent to 160 percent, which is a large range] and that […]

The worldwide storage software market showed another healthy gain in the third quarter of 2010, with 8.7 percent growth over the same period a year ago, researcher IDC reported Dec. 7.The researcher in its Worldwide Quarterly Storage Software Tracker said the market brought in revenues of $3.1 billion, which also amounted to a 6.3 percent […]

The days of companies in non-regulated markets conducting business strictly on a desktop, laptop or thin-client computer within a closed network are pretty much history.With an increasing number of personal devices handling business-related data through social networking and other channels, more and more sensitive corporate information is trickling into iPhones, BlackBerrys, netbooks and tablets that […]

nlyte Software — that’s correct, no letters are capitalized in the first name — Dec. 6 announced that it is including more extensive analytics in the newest version of its data center performance monitoring and management package. Menlo Park, Calif.-based nlyte launched v6.0 of its Data Center Infrastructure Management (DCIM) platform that incorporates nlyte Analytics, […]