Chris Preimesberger

Ford Previews Parade of New Electrical Vehicles by Chris Preimesberger No Title It’s going to take several years for this to gain enough momentum to become a national initiative, but connecting all the incoming electric vehicles to the existing power grid—and into renewable energy resources—in the United States is going to be a whale of […]

MILLBRAE, Calif.-Open-source advocate, European Union policy strategist and former MySQL business adviser Florian Mueller, representing European interests in the anti-competition issues surrounding Oracle’s proposed $7.4 billion acquisition of Sun Microsystems, told a small group of journalists and analysts Oct. 26 that it is very important to the IT world that the open-source database MySQL remains […]

With the official launch of Microsoft’s Windows 7 on Oct. 22, the requisite announcements from myriad companies with products that support the new operating system are coming fast and furious.This certainly holds true for a growing number of data backup companies that are wasting no time touting their new, upgraded Windows 7-compatible backup systems for […]

As of Oct. 24, Oracle has been unable to convince a key European Commission antitrust regulator that it will develop and promote the freely available, open-source MySQL database as well as it would one of its homegrown — and much more expensive — parallel database products. This conflict is becoming more problematic by the day […]

It was a surprise — OK, a shock — to stumble across a notice on the Web for a motivational speaker special event (check it out here) and see a familiar data storage name ranked right up there with some rather famous folks. We’re talking about a daylong event coming up on Dec. 2 in […]

External storage market leader EMC reported Oct. 22 that it banked $298 million in profit in the third quarter on total revenue of $3.52 billion, but also that its profit was $95 million-or 24 percent less-than a year ago.Overall revenue was down 5 percent from a year ago. Nonetheless, EMC, which predicted overall 2009 earnings […]

Quantum has long been known for disk storage, tape archiving and a solid deduplication feature. Now the company is going deeper into the data backup segment. On Oct. 21, it launched a new line of NAS backup appliances for midranges and SMBs that essentially are turnkey storage machines for non-IT types. The new DXi6500 lineup […]

Enterprise virtualization market leader VMware, like just about everybody else in IT, is still feeling the pinch of a slow-recovering world economy, but it appears to be holding its own in the face of a nagging buying slowdown.The hypervisor maker, majority owned by storage giant EMC, reported on Oct. 21 fiscal third-quarter revenues of $490 […]

Two software industry groups, along with free and open-source software community leader Richard Stallman, said Oct. 19 they are opposed to Oracle‘s planned acquisition of Sun Microsystems and urged European Commission regulators to block the $7.4 billion deal. If the transaction, which was announced April 20 and approved Aug. 20 by the U.S. Department of […]

With the announcement Oct. 20 that Korean IT device giant Samsung, which sells more NAND flash than anybody in the world, has made a substantial investment in U.S. enterprise storage newcomer Fusion-io, the solid-state world recorded another noteworthy achievement in the technology’s ever-increasing advance into the data center.No one is venturing predictions that SSDs will […]

Beleaguered Sun Microsystems revealed Oct. 20 that it must trim about 3,000 jobs over the next 12 months, due largely to the delay in closing its planned merger with Oracle, which is currently under review by the European Commission.The EC, which monitors commercial competition in the 27 countries that comprise the European Union, started due […]

Oracle and Cisco Systems are rolling hard and fast on separate but parallel tracks to become full-service systems providers that want to enjoy the international business reputations and prestige of IBM and Hewlett-Packard.As “full-service system providers,” Oracle and Cisco would have to demonstrate the ability to deliver and assemble all the hardware, software and services […]