Chris Preimesberger

EMC execs must love the month of May, when the company can host and feed scores of partners and customers, do some razzle-dazzling of potential buyers, and share news of new products and services at its EMC World conference.Usually, the event is staged in a resort-like place like Orlando, Fla. This year, the world’s largest […]

IT researcher IDC reported May 10 that the combination of an aging server installed base, IT managers’ increasing need to rein in virtual machines, and a general upturn in the buying environment is boosting sales of commodity-type servers used in public and private cloud-computing systems.Based on its first cloud computing survey focused exclusively on servers, […]

Former Symantec CEO and current board Chairman John Thompson, widely considered by industry watchers to be one of the true “class acts” in Silicon Valley, on May 6 was named CEO of Virtual Instruments.Thompson replaces Mark Urdahl, who was VI’s founding CEO in 2008. Urdahl, a major stockholder, is staying on as a member of […]

SAN FRANCISCO-Seagate on May 5 launched a new generation of its FreeAgent external storage hard drives with an emphasis on connection flexibility, naming them GoFlex. The key new feature throughout the line is this: Never again will a user have to buy a whole new drive just because the USB port has been upgraded. Using […]

VMware’s August 2009 acquisition, Java Web development provider SpringSource, is busy making buys of its own.SpringSource, which bought open messaging software maker Rabbit Technologies in April, announced May 6 that it had agreed to acquire in-memory Java cache maker GemStone Systems. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.SpringSource’s Spring Framework provides a lightweight programming platform […]

Back on Nov. 3, 2009, Cisco Systems, VMware, EMC and Intel formed the Acadia shared-equity startup in order to create and market modular cloud computing systems built on Cisco’s Virtual Computing Environment. The partnership uses hardware and software from those four companies — plus a list of other non-equity participants, including BMC [for its management […]

New HP Laptop Crop Match Colors with Performance by Chris Preimesberger Its all about setting an image HP showed off a total of 14 new notebooks April 27 in San Francisco, all ranging in size from 13 to 17 inches, including new Envys, Pavilions, ProBooks and a Mini. Whimsical netbook This colorful butterfly pattern is […]

SAN FRANCISCO-Hewlett-Packard debuted a set of 14 business and consumer notebooks May 5, all ranging in screen size from 13 to 17 inches, which borrow heavily from features normally associated with consumer notebooks only.These new Envy, ProBook, Pavilion and Mini laptops are powered by either Advanced Micro Devices or Intel dual-core processors and feature notable […]

The Station long has been a student of history. Count me among those who believe that for us to continue to evolve and improve as a society, we need to know history. We need to remember what we did that was right and worked; we also need to avoid making the same mistakes over and […]

Cloud software maker SuccessFactors revealed May 4 that it is acquiring CubeTree, which makes what it calls “social business software,” for $20 million in stock. Other financial considerations, SuccessFactors said, could bring the final purchase total to $50 million by 2013.SuccessFactors, based in San Mateo, Calif., makes cloud business software, called SuccessFactors Business Execution Suite, […]

Infoblox, a rising hardware appliance manufacturer of Domain Name System servers, announced May 4 that it has acquired Netcordia, a provider of network change and configuration management software.Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Integration of the two companies begins immediately.The deal brings together companies with products responsible for increasingly important data center management functions: […]

One by one, intellectual property lawsuits against companies that use open-source software in their products are falling by the wayside.A jury in East Texas May 3 declared that user-interface patent infringement claims filed against Red Hat and Novell by IP Innovation, a subsidiary of Acacia Research and Technology Licensing, were “invalid and worthless.”IP Innovation originally […]