Chris Preimesberger

On the heels of recruiting former Intel thought leader Pat Gelsinger to its inner sanctum of executive leadership, EMC on March 15 said that it has hired former Oracle, Veritas and Symantec veteran Jeremy Burton as executive vice president and chief marketing officer. Burton will be responsible for the global structure, strategy, and execution of […]

Thanks largely to perennially hot-selling items such as iPhones, iPods and iTouches — and soon, the iPad — the flash market is really heating up. When you see dramas unfolding like the one going on between semiconductor maker Microchip Technology of Melville, N.Y. and flash chip maker Silicon Storage Technology of Sunnyvale, Calif., then you […]

3PAR, which has established much of its identity around the idea of thin provisioning for data center storage, has brought to reality another concept: autonomic storage tiering. The company introduced its newest software feature, Adaptive Optimization, which does this tiering, on March 8.IBM has championed the concept of autonomic computing for about a decade. Autonomic […]

NASHVILLE, Tenn.-Emerson Network Power, which once specialized in power supplies but has been expanding into a range of other data center-related products, on March 9 launched a data center management package that combines all facility resources yet requires no new servers to run.The company made the announcement at AFCOM’s Data Center World conference here at […]

We think a trend in specialized enterprise cloud storage is well under way. Companies are already buying into it. Several providers [CommVault, EMC Atmos, i365, Iron Mountain Digital, and a number of others] offer customized cloud storage for financial services companies, utilizing extra security measures and storage redundancies — among other features — in the […]

Researchers IDC and Gartner both came out with their quarterly data storage markets reports March 5, and they each show a slight decline in worldwide sales over the last year. Key factors in the downturn turn out to be not only the world economic recession but, ironically, also the continuing overall improvement in the quality […]

SteelEye, a provider of disaster recovery solutions, and its parent company, SIOS Technology, introduced their new “holistic” CloudStation workload managment platform March 4 at the CeBIT 2010 conference in Hannover, Germany. CloudStation provides application workload management functionality for internal and external cloud systems that features integrated application and data availability. Many vendors of high-availability data […]

10 Things to Consider About Next-Generation Data Center Automation by Chris Preimesberger The Problem in General with Software Systems Software systems are constructed manually and often poorly documented along the way. For many organizations, provisioning and maintaining software systems is a challenge because systems are cobbled together manually and what’s deployed is opaque. Often, only […]

Google on March 4 said it has added a storage disaster recovery feature that’s growing in demand-synchronous data replication-to its Google Apps lineup, which includes Google Docs, Gmail, Google Sites, Calendar and several other apps.The search and Web services giant told eWEEK that it, in fact, has been using replication for Gmail for a few […]

Top 10 Mistakes Enterprises Can Make When Moving Data into the Cloud by Chris Preimesberger Implementing an Infrastructure that Doesnt Fit Your Cloud Needs One size does not fit all. Companies should not always build an entire application infrastructure in the cloud. You must decide if the cloud will be used for primary data or […]

SAN BRUNO, Calif. — YouTube is opening its online video storage banks to millions of new viewers by supplying captioning and subtitles for the benefit of deaf and hearing-disabled users — and people who simply speak a different language from the one used in a particular video.The Google-owned online video storage and presentation provider announced […]

Disk-based data protection provider SEPATON, a company that likes to raise its voice in type by spelling its name in all capital letters [we at eWEEK also follow that convention], recently asked about 400 IT managers what their top priorities are regarding data center protection for 2010. The result of the survey coordinated by respected […]