Chris Preimesberger

Networker Cisco Systems and data management provider BMC Software, using their 2009 Unified Computing System partnership as home base, Dec. 6 announced a second strategic alliance to develop a new, generically named cloud system for large-scale, multitenant infrastructures. The joint development partnership will use the Integrated Cloud Delivery Platform to target telcos, large and midrange-size […]

Groupon late on Dec. 3 apparently rejected Google’s massive $6 billion takeover offer. According to Bloomberg News and Chicago Breaking News, the Chicago-based localized shopping Web service believes the best way to proceed is to remain independent. Google has been in talks for the past week to buy the local retail Website, which sends e-mails […]

NASA is not taking any chances with the 26-year-old Space Shuttle Discovery, which has been in orbit 38 times and is the senior citizen of the U.S. space program.The agency on Dec. 3 postponed for the third time what was to be the final launch of Discovery until after the holidays. It originally was supposed […]

Exactly a year after it got into the NAND Flash business, Micron on Dec. 2 launched a new, powerful and tightly packed 25-nanometer multilevel cell processor that may give the company an inside track on the current flash storage market. ClearNAND, as Micron has dubbed it, will come in both Standard and Enhanced versions. Standard […]

The good financial news continues for the solid-as-a-rock data storage industry.Global sales of disk-based storage arrays, which had grown only slightly during 2008 and 2009, posted another double-digit gain in the third quarter of 2010 following a 21 percent rise in the second quarter, industry researcher IDC reported Dec. 3.Worldwide external disk storage systems factory […]

SANTA CLARA, Calif.-Leave it to Larry Ellison to “sparc up” what at first was looking like a pretty standard, no-nonsense product launch. During Oracle’s introduction of a slew of new data center products, the co-founder and CEO of the world’s second-largest software-making company took several sort-of-playful jabs Dec. 2 at one of his most formidable […]

It’s true. Whenever you deposit a check, book an airline reservation or rent a car, you’re likely to use an Oracle database or application. Oracle software has become a key backbone of the world’s information systems during its 30-year-plus existence. The man behind all that functionality, co-founder and CEO Larry Ellison, has been one of […]

The recent federal intellectual property case that resulted in a record-setting $1.3 billion judgment to Oracle for software and documentation misdeeds by SAP appears to have caused a far-reaching effect on the IT business.Oracle, in a lawsuit originally filed in 2007, claimed that SAP-through a now-defunct affiliate division-illegally downloaded more than 8 million instances of […]

Earlier this month, BroadVision brought to market a new, improved version of Clearvale, its cloud-based, intranet-type social network for business.Now, as of Dec. 1, the Redwood City, Calif.-based company has added new components that will take Clearvale–the UI of which looks a lot like Facebook–to an entirely new level: one that can serve as a […]

Automated storage provider Compellent Technologies and virtualization kingpin VMware on Nov. 30 announced an extension of their partnership that creates a new disaster recovery option for cloud systems using Compellent’s storage capabilities with vCenter Site Recovery Manager. The new package automates the process of moving, protecting and recovering data involved in virtually any type of […]

During his eight-year-long presidency, President George W. Bush paid not a single visit to the San Francisco Peninsula.But he did manage to find a reason to visit Palo Alto on Nov. 29, 2010, nearly two years after he left office. That would be for an Webcast appearance with CEO Mark Zuckerberg at Facebook headquarters to […]

Data Center Renovation: 10 Ways You Know It’s Overdue by Chris Preimesberger When Youve Lost Control Do you have centralized control over your data center???í If not, take a serious look at what virtualization can mean to your data center. Virtualization enables a degree of centralized management and control that hasn’t been seen since the […]