Chris Preimesberger

Hewlett-Packard and Oracle have sold a slew of IT systems together for a lot of years, with HP providing the servers and Oracle the middleware and business applications. That relationship looks a little dicey now since HP filed a lawsuit Sept. 7 in civil court against Oracle and its new co-president, Mark Hurd. The lawyers […]

The addition of Mark Hurd to the top level of Oracle’s corporate leadership is creating a lot of talk in many levels of business: in Silicon Valley, in Wall Street-and even in legal circles.Only a day after CEO and co-founder Larry Ellison hired the former Hewlett-Packard CEO to be a co-president alongside incumbent co-President Safra […]

Emerson Network Power, which already has a substantial world presence with its data center power supply business, added another global company to its portfolio on Sept. 3. The St. Louis-based corporation said it has acquired Chloride Group PLC, one of Europe’s leading UPS (uninterrupted power supply) makers, for $1.5 billion. Chloride, which does not make […]

Worldwide sales of disk-based storage arrays, which leveled off only briefly during the last two years of a difficult macroeconomy, climbed a healthy 21 percent in the second quarter of 2010 over the same period a year ago, industry researcher IDC reported Sept. 3.For the quarter, the total disk storage systems market grew to $6.8 […]

In the aftermath of the out-of-control bidding war that recently concluded with Hewlett-Packard outspending Dell at $2.35 billion for storage maker 3PAR, the winners undoubtedly are enjoying one of the sweetest Labor Day weekends of their lives. Those victors include CEO David Scott and venture capital firms Menlo Ventures, Worldview Technology Partners and Mayfield Fund. […]

Minutes after being rebuffed by yet another higher offer for 3PAR from Hewlett-Packard, Dell decided on Sept. 2 to drop out of the high-stakes bidding process for the utility storage provider.Thus, with its final $33-per-share, all-cash bid, the Palo Alto, Calif.-based IT superpower will gain the envied intellectual property of a small but mature storage […]

The 10-day-old bidding war between two stubborn IT superpowers over a relatively small storage company went up another level Sept. 2 when Dell increased its standing offer for 3PAR from $27 to $32 per share, with Hewlett-Packard subsequently upping its own to $33 from $30 a few minutes later.Dell had faced a deadline by midnight […]

SAN FRANCISCO-Microsoft as alternative. This is certainly not a typical notion, but in the context of VMworld 2010, it absolutely fit. The world’s largest application and operating system software maker is not nearly in as familiar waters when it comes to data center middleware, although it has a healthy and growing business in that sector. […]

Virtualization Draws Record Crowd to VMworld 2010 by Chris Preimesberger Welcome to VMwares World The first thing attendees saw as they obtained their credentials and headed off for the bag room was this ’50s-style rest stop. Swag Loading Zone New VMware backpacks loaded with goodies, including the usual T-shirts and memory sticks, were to be […]

We couldn’t resist this. Compellent, the Minnesota-based storage maker that has made its reputation by providing good, solid, fast storage area network systems for U.S. midrange and small business systems, is branching out internationally. At VMworld on Sept. 1, CEO Phil Soran announced that his company has landed a major European customer, Heineken Netherlands, which […]

Early Sept. 1, Dell — which simply wants to get better at serving high-end storage customers — was still revisiting its options. Hewlett-Packard on Aug. 27 played its $2 billion trump card, and 3PAR, the object of this intense love triangle, had “accepted” HP’s unsolicited, and overly generous — according to most insiders — offer. […]

SAN FRANCISCO-Storage maker NetApp and data integration/protection software provider Syncsort announced Sept. 1 at VMworld 2010 here that they have combined to market a new data protection package for mixed-bag data centers-which means just about all data centers.Called NetApp Syncsort Integrated Backup, the new suite combines Syncsort backup management software, NetApp snapshot, clone and replication, […]