Chris Preimesberger

Claims in advertising, no matter how outlandish they may seem, go unchallenged or are simply shrugged off every day as a normal part of capitalist culture.However, this isn’t the case with the TPC (Transaction Processing Performance Council), a nonprofit that checks on claims made in advertising that involve benchmarks for IT products.As a result, enterprise […]

Most of the time in IT, new feature sets trickle down from high-end server and storage systems and become standard in lower-end, less-powerful hardware and software for small to medium-size businesses and home offices. Generally, they also become cheaper. Here is a case in which the trickling is going upstream.Among several storage-related announcements made on […]

Cisco Systems, which introduced the concept of the Unified Computing System back in March, offered more detail Sept. 29 about its strategy for selling the data center of the future. The company is now calling this initiative Data Center 3.0, and — as one might imagine — it has definite ideas about how these new […]

New research from a prominent storage and data protection software provider indicates that almost half of small to medium-size enterprises have no formal data recovery plan if a natural disaster, hacker attack or power failure were to knock out their computer systems.In addition, the research shows that most SMBs in the United States are greatly […]

A software extension that enables multimedia messaging for iPhones became available on Apple’s iTunes App Store Sept. 25. While many people shrugged off work to download and check out the new feature, the early reports were generally mixed on how well it actually performs.Most people were pleased to be able to add the new service. […]

Walking Through 50 Years of Hard Disk Drive History A Curator of Disk Drive History: Jim Porter, longtime digital storage expert and creator of the Disk/Trend industry reports for more than two decades, also is the creator and maintainer of the IDEMA Technology Showcase, a walk down Memory (literally!) Lane for engineers of a certain […]

MaxiScale, a new storage software maker that emerged Sept. 21 from two years in stealth mode, has launched a new package designed to efficiently manage file serving for Web 2.0 sites with applications that run financial services, health records, social networks and software as a service.The Flex Software Platform runs on commodity-type, x86-based servers and […]

IBM in a joint announcement Sept. 24 with the local government of Dongying, China, introduced a project under the banner of its Smarter Planet initiative that will make use of cloud computing in an effort to improve economic development in the region.The municipality of Dongying will deploy IBM’s new CloudBurst software and services package to […]

Oracle CEO Larry Ellison, speaking at a large Churchill Club gathering in San Jose, Calif., Sept. 21, emphasized several times the importance of Sun Microsystems’ storage franchise to the overall acquisition, which will total about $7.4 billion — give or take a few hundred thousand or so. “Oracle will become a storage, software and systems […]

Newcomer Backblaze Offers Ultra-Cheap, Do-It-Yourself Cloud Storage Backblaze is Bay Area-based a startup that provides unlimited online backup for laptops or desktops to its customers for $5 per month, which is similar in many ways to cloud storage services such as Carbonite, Mozy and Amazon S3. To make his business commercially viable, founder Gleb Budman […]

SAN JOSE, Calif.-Oracle CEO and founder Larry Ellison talked about a great many things Sept. 21 in an appearance for the Churchill Club here at the Fairmont, ranging from the 1977 origins of his company, to competing for the 2010 America’s Cup, to buying Sun Microsystems, to his current goal-which is to displace IBM to […]

SAN FRANCISCO-Dell Enterprise CTO Paul Prince told eWEEK Sept. 21 that his company’s pending $3.9 billion acquisition of Perot Systems is a clear signal to the world about Dell’s overall strategy of bolstering its services offerings in order to establish itself as a full-blown enterprise IT supplier.In other words, Dell wants to follow in the […]