Chris Preimesberger

Micron Technology, which was forced to close down its NAND flash memory production facility in Boise, Idaho, in 2008 in a cost-cutting measure, is keeping its two remaining fabrication facilities-co-owned with Intel-busy in Lehi, Utah, and Manassas, Va.The company announced Oct. 19 that it is now manufacturing two new NAND flash devices. The first is […]

10 Things You Should Know Before VMs Take Over Your Data Center Dont Let the Cloud Become a Gathering Storm The cloud business model creates the potential for delivering lower-cost services, greater IT agility, more flexibility and better user experiences. But an uncontrolled approach to cloud could cause some IT headaches. In fact, many organizations […]

SAN FRANCISCO-Oracle CEO and founder Larry Ellison, in the final keynote of Oracle OpenWorld Oct. 14 here at the Moscone Center, dazzled attendees with unexpected guests onstage, then served up some news: details about the company’s software-as-a-service-enabled Fusion Applications middleware suite, something enterprise developers have been waiting to hear about for months.The surprise guests were […]

Michael Dell Talks Smartphones, Cheap Notebooks and Server Dominance in the Data Center by Chris Preimesberger No Title Dell on his company getting into the smartphone business: “The Internet in your pocket … and new platforms that are coming out are pretty interesting. Some of them resemble things that we’re pretty familiar with, in terms […]

SANTA CLARA, Calif. — Dell CEO and founder Michael Dell told a reporter Oct. 13 that his company plans to market an Android smartphone in the United States sometime early next year.Dell made his revelation in a separate conversation after finishing a 75-minute appearance with the Wall Street Journal’s Don Clark, staged before an audience […]

Fresh off announcing the existence of the F5100, a new high-performance solid-state storage array, Sun Microsystems on Oct. 13 introduced yet another addition to its storageware product line, the Storage 6180 Array. Sun claims that the Storage 6180 is 50 percent faster in I/O performance than its previous generation, and has a more than 70 […]

HP TouchSmart Laptops, Desktops Sport Windows 7, Touch Screens by Chris Preimesberger No Title HP describes the TouchSmart tx2 as the first multitouch consumer notebook. It features a 12.1-inch screen that rotates 180 degrees for use as a tablet (see next slide). Besides touch commands, users can write or draw on the screen with an […]

Utility storage provider 3PAR, one of the few companies not talking much about the glories of deduplication, introduced a new generation of its thin-provisioning storage software Oct. 12 that it says can reduce the upfront cost of a storage technology refresh of legacy systems by as much as 60 percent.The company made the announcement at […]

SAN FRANCISCO-Oracle and Sun Microsystems, nervously awaiting the blessing of the European Commission to become one company by the end of the year, kicked off their first joint Oracle OpenWorld conference here at the Moscone Center Oct. 11 by announcing an intriguing new flash-based storage system and re-identifying “The Giant”-as Oracle founder Larry Ellison referred […]

Three years to the day-on Oct. 9, 2006-Google acquired a money-losing but very relevant and useful YouTube.com. The world’s busiest video Website is serving up something like 11,000 videos per second to millions of people around the planet.That works out to about a million page views every 90 seconds and more than 1 billion-that’s right, […]

Cisco Systems went into the data center systems business full time on March 16, 2009, and has been ramping up its R&D and product development ever since. This is all new business for the world’s largest Internet-plumbing hardware and software provider. Cisco has at the center of this initiative its Unified Computing System, which consists […]

10 Things You Need to Know Now About Data Deduplication Scalability Avoid managing multiple deduplication repositories by deploying a deduplication solution that will scale a single repository as needed. Data availability Make sure your deduplicated data is available: look for disk mirroring and appliance clustering to guarantee immediate availability for fast recovery from a failure. […]