Chris Preimesberger

Convergence continues to be a natural evolution in enterprise IT, whether it’s about entire data center systems or single units within those systems.Newcomer Nimble Storage marked an important day in its corporate life earlier this month (July 15) when it announced two things: its own launch as a startup and the fact that it is […]

IT physical infrastructure companies, the folks who make precision power and cooling equipment, uninterruptible power supplies, and energy management software, are starting to make moves into the data center management software sector. Emerson Network Power has quietly begun providing system management, monitoring and reporting software and will be expanding its software and services in the […]

Oracle’s enterprise database and middleware business has been very, very good to Larry Ellison. The Wall Street Journal reported July 26 based on an analysis of executive remuneration that Ellison, co-founder and longtime CEO of the world’s second-largest software maker, ranked No. 1 on a list of highest-paid executives of public companies during the past […]

There’s been a lot happening in the LTO-5 tape world lately.On July 26, Oracle revealed high availability and capacity enhancements to its Sun StorageTek tape libraries and drives.On July 19, the LTO-5 Ultrium industry group, led by IBM and Hewlett-Packard, came out with an update on the overall industry that claims enterprises are purchasing digital […]

Bryan Cantrill, one of Oracle’s brightest young senior engineers, announced July 25 in his blog that he is leaving the company. Cantrill is one of a number of high-profile Sun Microsystems employees that have left Oracle since its January acquisition of Sun. Others include CEO Jonathan Schwartz, board chairman Scott McNealy, Java guru James Gosling, […]

Strange as it sounds, Oracle and FCOE-Fibre Channel over Ethernet, the new wave of data center connectivity that most full-service IT infrastructure providers are already on top of-haven’t been mentioned in the same sentence until now. Why? Because Sun Microsystems was working on getting products to market using FCOE when it got caught up in […]

Newcomer Nimbus Data Systems certainly isn’t bashful about going full force into the promising solid-state enterprise storage market.The San Francisco-based startup, which has trademarked its products as Sustainable Storage, July 19 announced a new enterprise flash system, the S1000, that is loaded with a whopping 10TB of solid state capacity per shelf-a system scalable to […]

Overland Storage, a diversified storage supplier that is on a comeback after facing serious financial challenges a few years ago, on July 22 unveiled a new unified version of the popular network-attached SnapServer storage array for midrange and larger enterprises. SnapServer N2000 is a block-and-file-level NAS or SAN package aimed at virtualized environments running VMware, […]

Solid-state server and storage array maker Fusion-io — whose chief scientist is Steve “The Woz” Wozniak — is doing some cutting-edge work in the realm of future NAND flash software development. This week the Utah-based company introduced a new flash-optimized OS subsystem called the ioMemory VSL (for Virtual Storage Layer) for better utilization of NAND […]

Even with all those millions of iPads, iPhones and iPods Apple is selling around the world, there is an oversupply of NAND flash memory on the market. Who knew? Looks like the new Samsung/Toshiba fabrication plants in the Far East have been spitting out too much product, allowing pricing to slip and profits to tailspin […]

Xiotech, which has always positioned itself as a maker of intelligent-and ostensibly, more efficient-storage, July 20 came out with a new system that’s apparently “smart” enough to specialize in the needs of virtual desktop deployments. The Emprise 9000, a new version of the company’s branded Emprise enterprise system, emphasizes the arrays as the true foundation […]

Nobody doubts that there is a lot more education needed in all business markets about the intricacies and attributes of cloud data backup/restore, archiving and disaster recovery.To accomplish this, an influential industry group, the Storage Networking Industry Association, on July 21 announced the formation of a new Cloud Backup and Restore Special Interest Group to […]