Chris Preimesberger

EMC is demonstrating to the enterprise IT world that it is serious about investing time, capital and energy in Atmos, its new cloud infrastructure products and services package.On May 18 the company expanded its cloud portfolio by launching EMC Atmos OnLine, which offers cloud storage capacity that includes enterprise-level services such as data-movement policies and […]

After more than two years of work that started in Santa Clara, Calif., in February 2007, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on May 15 officially sanctioned and made public specifications that will determine whether a piece of server hardware qualifies to carry the EPA’s well-known aqua-and-white Energy Star label. Starting today, CTOs and data center […]

Data deduplication, which began getting serious attention from the enterprise IT industry in late 2006 when EMC bought Avamar Technologies, has become a rapidly growing subsector in storage since that time. All the major systems vendors and storage companies large and small now have their own “dedupe” options; it’s become a standard requirement for storage […]

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.-Intel co-founder and Chairman Emeritus Gordon E. Moore was a 30-year-old executive at Fairchild Camera & Instrument back in January 1959 when the theory behind the silicon integrated processor was published by colleague Robert Noyce.Since that Eisenhower administration year, information technology has evolved a hundredfold. And much of that development is due to […]

Japan’s Hitachi Data Systems and U.S. storage provider CommVault, which have had a longstanding and successful partnership, on May 12 launched an upgraded storage and data protection package aimed at remote offices with virtualized systems.Hitachi Data Protection Suite 8.0 features CommVault’s Simpana 8.0 storage software suite inside HDS hardware. Simpana 7.0 was the 2008 winner […]

Toshiba’s Digital Products Division on May 14 unveiled the world’s first laptop with more than a half-terabyte of solid-state storage capacity, but at this point, it isn’t exactly cheap. The Portege R600-ST4203, which becomes available for general release in early June, features a second-generation 512GB eSATA SSD from Toshiba’s own fabrication plant. Initial price tag: […]

Birthday Bash Marks 50 Years of Integrated Circuit Evolution by Chris Preimesberger No Title Dr. Jay Last, during his presentation about his contribution to the introduction of silicon to the integrated circuit, used a slide that shows its size in relation to a dime. The picture was used on the cover of Life Magazine in […]

Oracle, a company with its own permanent mergers and acquisitions office, is adding an important ingredient to its product catalog in a quest to become the newest all-purpose IT systems company: a new-generation tool box that will administer both Windows and Linux virtualization deployments.When it closes a deal to acquire Virtual Iron announced May 13, […]

In an SEC proxy filing May 12 detailing the background behind Oracle’s acquisition of Sun Microsystems for a net compensation of $5.6 billion, Sun explained some of the logic behind the proposed deal, which was unanimously approved by Sun’s board of directors but also has elicited ire-and three class action lawsuits-from some angry shareholders.Fundamentally, Sun, […]

Sun Microsystems admitted in its quarterly earnings report that it may have broken international anti-bribery laws in an incident that happened outside the United States.The Santa Clara, Calif.-based IT systems company did not specify where or when the illegal activity took place or who may have committed the infraction.Although there is no indication at this […]

10 Steps Enterprises Can Use to Improve Litigation Readiness edited by Chris Preimesberger 1. Know Your Data: Create a Data Map To proactively manage ever-growing piles of e-mail, document/graphics storage and database data, organizations should create a map of where all their documents and data are stored before litigation occurs and keep it up-to-date. This […]

Sun Microsystems’ board of directors may have all been on the same page in agreeing to the $7.4 billion acquisition by Oracle on April 20, but apparently a good many of Sun’s financial backers are into a different book altogether.Some of those shareholders on May 8 joined forces to file a total of three class […]