Chris Preimesberger

NetApp had a few things to say about EMC’s June 9 open letter to Data Domain employees, a letter that extolled Data Domain’s virtues and compared it to-you’ve guessed it-EMC itself.NetApp and EMC are in the middle of a bidding war of sorts in pursuit of fast-growing midrange storage system provider Data Domain.“Make no mistake: […]

EMC on June 9 made its first move since tendering an unsolicited bid June 1 for storage system maker Data Domain by sending an “open letter” to the company’s employees-as well as the rest of the world-extolling the virtues of an EMC ownership.On June 3, Data Domain’s board of directors voted unanimously to accept NetApp’s […]

SAN FRANCISCO-The biggest question about what might happen June 8 at Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference was whether Apple CEO and co-founder Steve Jobs, a cancer survivor suffering from a lengthy illness involving a hormonal imbalance, would make his first public appearance since October 2008.Well, he did not, ostensibly electing to work from his Palo Alto, […]

2009 WWDC: New iPhone, MacBook Pros Steal Show While Jobs a No-Show by Chris Preimesberger No Title Apple Senior Vice President of Worldwide Product Marketing Phil Schiller introduces the 2-hour keynote session on June 8, giving an overview of upgrading to the new Apple iPhones, notebook computers and the Snow Leopard operating system. No Title […]

Imagine 3D Video Without Those Annoying Red-Blue Glasses Imagine 3-D Video Without Those Annoying Red-Blue Glasses No Title A 42-inch LED display screen in the window of an unoccupied retail store on Seventh Avenue and 50th Street in Manhattan causes groups of people to stop, look and wonder. The display shows looped videos of a […]

Diskeeper, the company from which Microsoft licenses its defrag utility used in Windows systems, has been known and respected as an expert on enterprise hard-drive defragmentation. In simple terms, defragmentation is a process that reduces the amount of fragmentation in file systems. It does this by physically organizing the bits of each file closer together […]

SAN FRANCISCO-It’s pretty hard to get people-busy New Yorkers, in particular-to stop in their tracks on the sidewalk to look at an advertising display. Let’s face it, much of New York City is an advertising opportunity. Yet a single 42-inch LED display screen in the window of an unoccupied retail store on Seventh Avenue and […]

Strange to have a court of law step in and tell someone what he can and cannot do at work. But that’s exactly the case with new Hewlett-Packard Executive Vice President David Donatelli, who last month accepted his new job after serving EMC well for a long time as a high-level storage exec. Donatelli, who […]

The proverbial ball in the bidding battle between market leader EMC and NetApp over Data Domain has been swatted back in EMC’s court. NetApp on June 3 filed an offer of $1.9 billion in stock and cash, a hundred million bucks more than EMC’s June 1 offer of $1.8 billion in cash. NetApp had started […]

The “love triangle” involving data storage competitors NetApp and EMC and the object of their affections, storage systems and deduplication provider Data Domain, took a second turn June 3 when the Data Domain board of directors unanimously accepted a revised $1.9 acquisition offer from NetApp that it had received earlier in the day.However, EMC, the […]

SAN BRUNO, Calif.-Soon you may be clicking the remote from your most comfortable chair in order to view YouTube videos in high quality on a big TV screen.YouTube on the evening of June 2 launched its newest service, YouTube XL, as part of its strategy to move its content from the computer screen into the […]

Well, a full day has gone by since EMC offered 300 million more bucks than NetApp did on May 20 to acquire Data Domain, for a total of $1.8 billion. Up to now, there hasn’t been any response from either NetApp or DDUP about the EMC offer. Undoubtedly a few meetings going on. Just thought […]