Chris Preimesberger

Oracle’s 15 Key Plot Points in Its Struggle with the EC over Buying Sun Microsystems It’s been a long, strange and expensive trip for Oracle in its quest to add Sun Microsystems to its list of company acquisitions. And the final chapter isn’t yet written. This started in early 2009 when word got out that […]

Data storage and its surrounding technologies, which some IT people consider rather unexciting, were hardly dull topic sectors in 2009.The continued explosion in the creation of data worldwide kept the pressure on vendors, users and storage managers alike to store and secure business and personal files, whether they be Word docs, photos, video, audio or […]

Oracle’s complicated eight-month-long mission to annex Sun Microsystems is finally coming to an end.It’s not officially a done deal, but eWEEK has learned through knowledgeable sources that the standoff between Oracle and the antitrust regulators of the European Commission has been broken and that an agreement is probably imminent. Click here for 10 reasons why […]

Oracle on Dec. 14 released its first public statement in weeks regarding the pending acquisition of Sun Microsystems, attempting to reassure the European Commission and Sun’s MySQL development community that it will maintain — and even enhance — Sun’s successful stewardship of the open source database.In its statement to the press, Oracle said that it […]

Automated storage provider CommVault on Dec. 14 entered into a partnership with database integration specialist Informatica to produce a new archiving package for large data sets that enables support for a number of top-tier enterprise databases and CRM or ERP applications.Those database and enterprise applications include Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle, DB2, SAP, PeopleSoft, Siebel and […]

EMC has added upgraded replication support in the 5.5 version of its Data Protection Advisor software, which became generally available Dec. 14. Using the new version of the storage management suite, IT managers now can automate and remotely monitor all of their backup applications along with replication technologies in both physical and virtual environments, EMC […]

Despite the nagging world recession, there’s still venture capital money available for those companies with solid ideas, tight business plans, awareness of trends, and smart management. A good example: CloudShare, formerly called IT Structures, came out of stealth mode Dec. 11 and got an early Christmas present in the form of $10 million in series […]

Kroll Ontracks Top 10 Data Disasters and Remarkable Recoveries of 2009 by Chris Preimesberger Legal Trouble As legal officials entered the home of a criminal suspect, the individual in question threw a laptop containing potentially pertinent evidence out the window of a 12-story building. As a result, the laptop smashed into many pieces on the […]

IBM on Dec. 9 made a strategic move into the enterprise solid-state storage market, casting its lot with a newcomer — solid-state server and storage array maker Fusion-io — and its well-known chief scientist and IT thought leader, Steve Wozniak.Wozniak, co-founder of Apple, joined Fusion-io as its chief scientist in February 2009, raising awareness of […]

NetApp and Microsoft, two companies that have worked together for more than a decade but have never announced a formal partnership, did just that on Dec. 8.The two companies announced a new three-year working agreement aimed at smoothing out their common product development, service and sales roads in order to improve product collaboration and technical […]

Fujitsu announced Dec. 8 that it is joining the ever-expanding “cloud builder” club of Tier 1 IT companies.The Japanese systems maker, which like IBM and Hewlett-Packard already has most of the components of cloud system building abiding in its own warehouses, has begun offering what it calls “end-to-end enterprise cloud services” aimed at midrange businesses, […]

A lot of people do not realize that Seagate Technology, the world’s largest spinning-disk hard drive maker, hasn’t brought a solid-state drive to market until now–nearly two years after NAND flash SSDs started making major inroads in the data center.EMC started making SSDs from STEC available for data center storage use in its Symmetrix arrays […]