Chris Preimesberger

Red Hat, whose CEO, Jim Whitehurst, delivered the opening keynote of this week’s Open Source Business Conference in San Francisco, revealed March 16 that IBM has selected Red Hat’s Enterprise Virtualization platform for its new cloud computing service for development and test.Last June, IBM launched three cloud system models: IBM Smart Business Test Cloud, a […]

Digitiliti is taking a risk just by using the name it has chosen. Typing it, we have to go back most of the time to correct it. A lot of t’s and i’s, close together. Solution: Copy and paste. Nonetheless, Digitiliti [copied, pasted] is just that: a digital utility box for information management, aimed at […]

SAN FRANCISCO-Laying down an ocean-crossing fiber optic data transmission cable is hardly for the faint of heart-or body. We’re talking about months at sea in unpredictable open-ocean conditions to “pay out” a 1-inch-thick fiber optic cable capable of transporting billions of information bits per minute for thousands of nautical miles.In this case, we’re talking about […]

Google Helps Finance Latest Trans-Pacific Fiber Optic Cable Project by Chris Preimesberger No Title This map shows the 15 current undersea cable lines stretching from the United States to the Far East. The PacNet-SubCom cable is only the latest. Company officials would not disclose the exact cost of the project, but conceded it was in […]

Content management system provider Clarizen on March 16 introduced version 4.5 of its cloud-based WorkManagement service, a competitor to Microsoft’s SharePoint. Fine. Why should anybody care? Well, for one thing, the company’s WorkManagement V4.5 adds the ability to edit, upload and create documents in Google Apps. For another thing, Clarizen has an iCalendar integration that […]

Intel, the world’s largest processor maker, made another move into the solid-state storage disk market on March 15 when it unveiled its latest high-performance wholesale SSD from the Intel-Micron partnership: the X25-V Value SATA SSD. The new Intel 40GB drive is priced at $125 per 1,000 quantity and is positioned for lower-end netbooks and dual-drive/boot […]

Home and small-office laptop or desktop users and those who run servers and/or a RAID array at some point might be interested in swapping out a disk drive for a solid-state one for performance purposes.If that’s the case, San Jose, Calif.-based disk drive maker OCZ Technology Group has a new SSD (solid-state drive), the Onyx […]

Following a decline in 2009, global revenue from shipments of both hard disk and optical drives is expected to rebound sharply in 2010, industry researcher iSuppli reported March 12.The upswing for drives naturally follows that of personal computer shipments, which are starting to increase as the world economy improves and users choose to take advantage […]

One year ago, Internet pipe fitter Cisco Systems entered the data center systems business with the introduction of the Unified Computing System, which features the company’s first-ever application server and includes all necessary data routing.The UCS’ network-centric data center infrastructure authorizes partners such as EMC, BMC, NetApp, VMware and Intel to provide components that Cisco […]

Data Center World 2010 Puts Spotlight on IT Efficiency by Chris Preimesberger Data Center Manager of the Year For the first time, Data Center World and co-sponsor eWEEK asked for nominees and selected a national Data Center Manager of the Year at the 2010 conference from more than 40 candidates. The finalists were Michael Greeney, […]

NASHVILLE, Tenn.-Not too many power-supply companies are offering old-fashioned kinetic-energy, flywheel-based UPS (uninterruptible power supply) options in their product lines. After all, because flywheel technology goes back to ancient times, it’s frankly not very sexy.Nonetheless, flywheel power sources have a good story: They’re battery-free; they’re 96 to 97 percent efficient (only 3 to 4 percent […]

NASHVILLE, Tenn.-At Data Center World 2010 here in Music City, it’s all about control. We’re talking control of data center footprints, carbon emissions, power consumption, equipment cooling, budgets, personnel, and myriad other things. Oh, yes: Control of the data itself also comes into this discussion. Data center managers are finding themselves as backstops in the […]