Chris Preimesberger

SANTA CLARA, Calif. — If you and your company are interested in using iPads and iPhones instead of BlackBerrys or other devices on an enterprise network, read on. Little-known Oxygen Cloud, a beta-level online service that connects people, data and their devices within a company to a single virtual file system, announced Nov. 3 that […]

Wonders never cease in the SSD world — or in any storage sector, in our humble opinion. Ever heard of Foremay? It’s an 8-year-old company based in Pasadena, Calif., with a global vision and offices in Norway, Korea, China and Taiwan. Not many IT companies are based in Pasadena, even though wonderful scientific seats of […]

Lawyers for Oracle and SAP selected eight jurors Nov. 1 on the first day of the long-awaited financial restitution trial involving Oracle’s intellectual property piracy case against Germany-based enterprise application maker SAP.The case is being tried before Judge Shirley Hamilton in U.S. District Court in Oakland, Calif.Oracle is seeking $2.15 billion in lost income due […]

High-availability application provider Marathon Technologies Nov. 2 started shipping a new version of its everRun MX Extend data center software that integrates natively with CA Technologies’ replication. The new version consists of Marathon’s basic fault-tolerant SMP package, everRun MX, but it now integrates directly with CA’s ARCserve replication feature to provide 24/7 application availability. Marathon, […]

As CEO and founder Michael Dell had hinted earlier in the day at a conference in Hong Kong, Dell made a cloud computing acquisition on Nov. 2. Only it wasn’t the one many people expected at this time.The Round Rock, Texas-based computer and server maker added a key ingredient to its cloud strategy when it […]

Data protection management software maker Bocada on Nov. 1 released upgrades to its Prism platform that include improved reporting on trending analysis and enhanced performance for rendering reports on large-scale data sets. Bocada, which created the Data Protection Service Management (DPSM) model, developed its Prism product to serve as a purpose-built storage platform that intuitively […]

Amazon, a pioneer in the cloud storage space four years ago, apparently has no intention of loosening the pressure it puts on the many competitors it has picked up since then. The Seattle-based company on Nov. 1 reduced its prices by nearly 20 percent on its S3 (Simple Storage Service). It was the second time […]

Selection of a jury in U.S. District Court in Oakland was the first order of business Nov. 1 for Judge Shirley Hamilton as the long-awaited financial restitution trial began in Oracle’s intellectual property piracy case against German enterprise application maker SAP.Oracle is seeking $2.15 billion in lost income due to thefts of its database support […]

Most people in IT already have read that researchers believe digital business data to be stored is growing at a 40 to 60 percent clip each year.So it makes sense that this explosion in stored files, logs and other data has become one of biggest challenges to solve for large enterprises.Gartner Research reported Nov. 1 […]

Intel, Dell, EMC, IBM and Fujitsu are linking up to help start a new industry group with the goal of hammering out a common standard for PCI express motherboard cards. The three main goals of the new SSD Form Factor Working Group are to design a common connector specification, develop a form factor based on […]

Intel and a number of its international partners proved to be in sharing frames of mind Oct. 27 when they jointly announced their new Open Data Center Alliance. The new coalition consists of about 70 global enterprises representing more than $50 billion in annual IT investment and that have cloud research or projects under way, […]

Two of the world’s largest enterprise application makers, Oracle and SAP–embroiled in a software piracy lawsuit that begins Nov. 1–each had court requests turned down by the presiding judge on Oct. 29. SAP was unsuccessful in trying to obtain a gag order for Oracle’s attorneys, and Oracle was turned down in its attempt to delay […]