Chris Preimesberger

On the eve of the final skirmish in the legal war Oracle has been waging since 2007 with Germany-based databaser SAP, CEO Larry Ellison has been making some enterprise-size waves-and not just at his legal opponent.Starting Monday at a courthouse in Oakland, Calif., Oracle and SAP will go before a judge and jury, who will […]

German database maker SAP AG admitted in a court brief to Judge Phyllis J. Hamilton of the U.S. District Court in Oakland, Calif., dated Oct. 28, that it won’t contest Oracle’s claim that it is culpable for copyright infringement committed several years ago by its now-defunct TomorrowNow unit.The fact that SAP has admitted knowing about […]

Virtual Machine Ghosts Multiply: How to Exorcise them from the Data Center by Chris Preimesberger Virtual Ghosts Indeed Exist One of virtualizations inherent benefits is that it has made it very easy to set up virtual machines. In the past, servers could only run one instance of an operating system (OS), requiring IT to buy […]

Oracle, which hasn’t revealed all that much about how it intends to keep developing its Sun StorageTek franchise since the Sun Microsystems acquisition 10 months ago, on Oct. 27 introduced a new Virtual Library Extension that adds new-generation storage tiering into mainframe environments.Oracle is positioning the new library extension as a highly scalable additional tier […]

Iron Mountain, earlier this week added a new enterprise e-discovery package, Enterprise Discovery Suite, to its long line of products. This is Iron Mountain’s first software suite to unite storage of regular files and emails, classifying them for fast locating and culling down the data for discovery purposes. A previous product — based on its […]

Data storage and security provider Symantec revealed its fiscal second-quarter earnings results Oct. 27, reporting that its profits dipped 12 percent due mostly to higher costs related to sales and marketing projects. In the quarter ending Sept. 30, Symantec posted a profit of $136 million, or 17 cents/share, down from $155 million, or 19 cents/share, […]

SAN FRANCISCO-Juniper Networks, known for a long time as a second fiddle to Cisco Systems in the network I/O movement, boosted its standing in the network security sector Oct. 26 by introducing a new end-to-end suite of security products and services for smartphones.The Sunnyvale, Calif.-based company, recognizing along with everybody else that connected devices are […]

Less than a week after archrival Hewlett-Packard came out with a new program to help enterprises build their own data centers of the future to run private cloud systems, IBM announced that it, too, is now offering technical help for large-enterprise customers that want to migrate to the cloud.Interestingly, the new IBM program is not […]

Quantum is making no bones about which market it’s raiding with the new archive conversation feature it unveiled Oct. 25 for the latest StorNext system: All those companies that invested in Sun-StorageTek (now Oracle) tape archives during the last two decades.StorNext 4.1, coming out in December, includes an archive conversion feature designed to simplify migration […]

Looks like network-attached storage maker Isilon Systems, which supplies large-scale, linear-oriented, clustered systems — mostly for huge workloads created by media companies and scientific labs — has turned a financial corner away from potential disaster and stayed on the right path following a two-year downturn. The Seattle-based storage company, which went public in 2007, reported […]

Data warehouser Teradata officially joined the unified computing trend Oct. 25 on the first day of its annual partner conference in San Diego. Teradata, which is said to own about two-thirds of the enterprise data warehousing market, unveiled its Unified Logical Data Model Framework and Product Portfolio (Teradata Unified LDM), which enables enterprises to build […]

New Oracle Co-President Mark Hurd is becoming a regular magnet for litigation.Hurd, who caused a ruckus when he left his CEO job at Hewlett-Packard under questionable circumstances, is one of a dozen defendants named in a lawsuit brought Oct. 19 by a Midwest-based pension fund regarding kickbacks he and others are alleged to have paid […]