Chris Preimesberger

A recent survey of enterprise chief information officers and other IT decision makers clearly reveals that they believe the top three factors that enable more effective use of technology are improved IT project management, standardization and better integration of existing applications.It probably doesn’t surprise most IT professionals to know that all three of these data […]

The Federal Aviation Administration’s national flight-plan filing system went down for 4 hours on the morning of Nov. 19, disrupting the takeoffs of hundreds of commercial flights and throwing hundreds of thousands of travelers off schedule.The culprit was eventually determined to be a routing error in the software configuration inside a telecom router link at […]

10 Key Differences Between Desktop and Server Virtualization Deployments by Chris Preimesberger Predictable vs. Unpredictable Workloads The load on a virtualized back end is quite predictable. While it’s important to be able to move a server application from one hardware platform to another while running—through vMotion, for instance-desktops can be moved when the user is […]

Oracle has requested and received a six-business-day extension from the European Commission for its final date on deciding whether to sanction the company’s plan to buy Sun Microsystems.As a result, the final day for the EC to make a decision as to whether Oracle can do business in the 27-nation European Union is now Jan. […]

Seven New Strategies for Smart Disaster Recovery Seven New Strategies for Smart Disaster Recovery No Title Just as people in general tend to avoid detailed discussions about death, IT people tend to shy away from asking business users what they would lose if specific IT processes became severely compromised. A smart recovery strategy must uncover […]

STANFORD, Calif.–If you ask some of the most knowledgeable people in the solid-state drive business, you’ll find out that SSDs–though becoming increasingly popular–aren’t in a position take over from hard drives any time soon.Of course, this argument has been going on for a long time and will continue for years to come. Many people, however, […]

When the Federal Aviation Administration’s national flight-plan filing system went down for 4 hours the morning of Nov. 19, disrupting the takeoffs of hundreds of commercial flights and throwing hundreds of thousands of travelers off schedule, it wasn’t yet known that the culprit was one faulty part inside a telecom router link in Salt Lake […]

There’s more than a little irony in the fact that Erich Clementi, the man charged with looking into the future and identifying strategic initiatives for IBM, made his considerable reputation largely by looking back and rebuilding a part of Big Blue that’s truly old school: its mainframe business.From 2003 through 2005, Clementi helped lead the […]

IT problems are still affecting the Federal Aviation Administration’s flight-plan system-even after its multimillion-dollar system upgrade went online earlier in 2009.A software configuration problem on a card in one of the routers within the FAA’s telecommunications infrastructure system in Salt Lake City shut down the flight-plan and traffic-flow system Nov. 19 for about 4 hours […]

The market battle to stake out stronger positions in the desktop virtualization business appears to be heating up.Only a week after VMware launched a spiffy new edition of its View virtualized desktop, Citrix Systems Nov. 17 announced upgrades to its own desktop virtualization software. Hewlett-Packard continues to upgrade its own VDI (virtual desktop infrastructure) offerings […]

Symantecs Top Nine Storage Trends for 2010 by Chris Preimesberger 2010: The Year of Deletion Next year, enterprise IT administrators will continue to struggle with the continuing growth of information, while budgets continue to lag. In order to keep up, storage admins will need to begin to lose their “pack rat” mentality and start deleting […]

AT&T, which in May 2009 joined Verizon Communications as telecom companies in the cloud storage business, is branching out its online service menu with the help of VMware and Sun Microsystems.The nation’s largest telecom Nov. 16 introduced a new cloud subscription-based service that gives businesses on-demand access to computing resources via a new online portal […]