Chris Preimesberger

We have to admit this is pretty creative marketing from a small company that has an uphill fight in the same space as huge Cisco Systems. Actually, it’s creative for any company, for that matter. Belmont, Calif.-based Vyatta, an open-source-based networking startup whose Community Edition 3.0 software was a finalist last year in eWEEK’s Excellence […]

Sun Microsystems had some welcome good news to report May 7. After six months in general release, the company’s first home-designed and developed storage appliances, the “Amber Road” Storage 7000 Unified Storage Systems, have been selling like gangbusters-despite the recession. Since the launch of Amber Road Nov. 10, 2008, Sun has sold more than 800 […]

As it been quietly informing partners, customers and analysts over the last few weeks, Cisco Systems‘ sales performance slipped during the last three months, with its profits falling 24 percent during the fiscal quarter that ended April 25.Cisco, by far the world’s biggest supplier of IT networking hardware and software, reported earnings of $1.35 billion, […]

Most people are already aware that solid-state server and storage disks only use a portion-as little as one-half or less-of the electrical power that a spinning hard disk requires, simply because there are no moving parts that need energy to activate them.As SSDs move slowly but surely into the data center, noticeable dribs and drabs […]

There’s a lot of other new-product news being announced at Citrix Synergy 2009 (Las Vegas through May 7) besides that of the host company. Longtime Citrix partner RES Software, whose software helps manage often-difficult-to-deal-with Microsoft Windows environments, launched its new PowerFuse MyWorkspace Edition May 5 at the conference and expo. PowerFuse MyWorkspace Edition enables enterprises […]

Virtualization software provider Citrix Systems on May 5 launched a new virtual version of its NetScaler MPX hardware server appliance, called NetScaler VPX.The company made the announcement at its Synergy 2009 conference in Las Vegas.In the past, the NetScaler physical server has been deployed to house large-scale Web applications-such as those used for financial services […]

Desktop and data center virtualization software provider Citrix moved full force into do-it-yourself mode May 5, launching a list of new self-service-type products and services at its annual Synergy 2009 users conference in Las Vegas.The software and services-which also include some upgrades of existing products-ran the full scope of markets, from the enterprise to SMB […]

Cisco Systems made big news March 16 when it boldly announced that it was moving into the full-service data center systems business with its Unified Computing System.But in all the hubbub of the UCS product launch, Cisco left something important out of the conversation: How is security for UCS going to be handled?It turns out […]

Device makers Toshiba and Fujitsu said May 2 that they have finalized details on an agreement for Toshiba to take over Fujitsu’s multinational hard-drive design and manufacturing businesses.Financial details of Toshiba’s buyout were not disclosed by either company.The combination of the two companies’ 2.5-inch hard-drive market sales figures would immediately make it the largest such […]

Competition in the television- and movie-fueled online video streaming business is getting more and more intense. And the personal involvements of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs and Google CEO Eric Schmidt in this burgeoning market complicate the story to the point where it resembles a made-for-TV movie.There’s a premium on high-end TV and movie content, and […]

If you don’t want to have to deal with daily enterprise backup anymore, there’s a new alternative now available: Symantec’s getting into the managed storage service act. The Cupertino, Calif.-based company on April 30 launched its new Managed Backup Services, which provides management of NetBackup backup and recovery operations through a combination of local management–on-site […]

It’s not enterprise-type storage by any means, but Seagate Technology’s new Replica direct-attached desktop hard drive for desktops, laptops or netbook computers will probably see a lot of action in corporate settings.The Seagate Replica, launched April 27, automatically backs up documents, databases, graphics and other content using a double-USB connection. It comes on as soon […]