Chris Preimesberger

HPs Slate 500 Tablet Takes Aim at Business Professionals by Chris Preimesberger Industrial-Type Design HP is big on exterior design and has put a lot of thought into the device’s case. The Slate 500 comes in black and silver and features a 3 megapixel camera on the back. Vertical Mode The 6-inch-by-9-inch unit Slate weighs […]

eWEEK had an opportunity Oct. 21 to test the new HP Slate 500 tablet, and, as one might imagine, it’s similar-but not at all the same experience-to an Apple iPad. It’s completely understandable why Hewlett-Packard is positioning its 6-by-9-inch device for a different market from that of the iPad: It’s not going to compete well […]

SAN FRANCISCO–Hewlett-Packard started selling its long-awaited new Slate 500 tablet portable computer on its Website early on Oct. 22. Some earlier reports had the devices becoming available on Oct. 25. HP, which priced the new 6-inch-by-9-inch device at $799, is positioning it in a different category than Apple’s iPad, which it considers a “media-oriented tablet” […]

There isn’t a lot of Mac-related storage news, so when there is something, we at Storage Station are only too happy to report it. Online backup provider Pro Softnet recently released a pocket-size 2.5-inch portable external drive specifically for Macintosh computers. This one’s very similar to PC portable drives made by Iomega, Seagate and others. […]

Avoiding Data Storage Nightmares: 10 Tips for SMBs by Chris Preimesberger Your Server Dies and the Backup Is a Month Old Make sure you set up alerts the first day you install a backup, and check to see that your backups are working at all times. With critical business data, consider augmenting your backup process […]

Amazon.com, which jumped way out ahead in the cloud computing trend in 2006, is putting out an offer to potential software development customers that will be hard for many of them to pass up. The company’s Web Services division announced Oct. 21 that developers and businesses can now apply for a free EC2 (Elastic Compute […]

If enterprises are going to be building their own service-oriented IT systems for private cloud-type deployments, they need to have a supportive environment with the right tools and plenty of bandwidth to do the testing and quality assurance the right way. Enter IBM, which is in the process of expanding its cloud development services to […]

Before an enterprise can build an expensive new-generation data center with a converged infrastructure, the CTO, CIO or IT manager needs to get the right training to see that the job gets done correctly.Knowing all about this, Hewlett-Packard on Oct. 20 introduced at Interop New York what it claims to be the first converged infrastructure […]

It had to feel like a knife in the back to EMC when Dell announced Aug. 16 that it wanted to buy 3PAR for $1.15 billion. After all, EMC and Dell had been partners for 10 years in selling enterprise storage servers, arrays and all the fixins. Dell annexing 3PAR would do nothing but cut […]

If there are clearer indicators than EMC’s quarterly earnings reports that storage, cloud computing and data protection continue to be the most vibrant and profitable sectors in IT, they haven’t surfaced.The data storage and security giant in Hopkinton, Mass., on Oct. 19 again reported record financial results for the company’s third fiscal quarter of 2010, […]

Intel revealed Oct. 19 that it is planning to invest between $6 billion and $8 billion over the next two years to build a new processor fabrication plant in Oregon in addition to upgrading four existing facilities to manufacture next-generation 22-nanometer chips. These upcoming 22nm microprocessors are designed for use in smartphones, digital cameras, desktop […]

The data center and cloud computing infrastructure build-out trends are so hot that a number of IT companies that had long since established themselves in other specialties are refocusing much of their new-business strategy in those areas. For example, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Dell, Fujitsu and Oracle make servers and storage that provide the basis for cloud […]