Chris Preimesberger

CeBIT 2009 Unfolds as a Diminished, Yet Still Imposing Tech Event by Chris Preimesberger in Hannover, Germany No Title It was a gray, foggy, chilly day March 2 as the last of the booth-builders finished their preparations for CeBIT. The fairgrounds use about 2 million square feet of space for this, the largest IT show […]

HANNOVER, Germany-Fusion-io, which makes enterprise solid-state storage arrays and recently signed Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak as its chief scientist, announced an OEM deal here March 3 with Hewlett-Packard to provide the huge systems company with its new StorageWorks IO Accelerator.The IO Accelerator is a NAND flash-based storage adapter based on Fusion-io’s ioMemory technology.Fusion-io’s bread-and-butter product, […]

HANNOVER, Germany-Amazon Web Services, which is rapidly catching up to Amazon.com‘s retail division and will soon become the Web 2.0 company’s bread-and-butter business, on March 3 launched a new option for the European Union region that allows software developers to run Microsoft Windows Server and Microsoft SQL Server in the cloud.Developers now can use Amazon […]

Ferrari Driving Its New APC Data Center as Hard as Its Race Cars by Chris Preimesberger  in Maranello, Italy Globally known brand The world-famous Ferrari logo sign hangs at the entrance to the company factory and data center in Maranello, Italy. The standing black horse became the key art element in the logo for founder […]

HANNOVER, Germany — Microsoft Germany, making its first news announcement on the eve of CeBIT 2009, said March 2 that it has launched a set of its existing online business services as two new cloud computing- type packages: a new Business Productivity Online Suite and another called Deskless Worker Suite.The two new software packages will […]

MARANELLO, Italy — Computing and personal transportation are permanently entwined. Computer-aided design, geopositioning systems, crash sensors, system monitoring and hundreds of other applications have been standard on our cars for years. However, few land-vehicle enterprises are more intensely tied into computing systems than Italy’s Ferrari, which makes its living on high-performance automobile races and sales […]

PARIS — A little more than two years ago, eWEEK published an article about “Ten Disruptive Storage Technologies.” At the top of that list was a startup called Seanodes, based here in a city much more known for romance than data storage.We called Seanodes a “disruptive” factor in the data storage business — not because […]

BOLOGNA, Italy — The Station is in Europe for a few days ahead of the humongous CeBIT 2009, which opens Monday in Hannover. You think CES is big in Las Vegas? This place has 28 — yes, 28 — pavilions and 4,300 companies showing their wares. In fact, Hannover exists for the trade show business, […]

LONDON-Any company that both IBM and Intel use to handle the network monitoring of their internal systems is a company that warrants a closer look for other enterprises seeking to take better control of their own networks.Entuity, with co-headquarters here and in the Boston area, is that company. Its whole point is that if you […]

CeBIT will be opening its gates in Hannover, Germany, on March 2. The world’s largest IT and telecom trade show will feature California as its so-called “Partner IT State” and will highlight the hot themes of “Webciety” and green IT. Webciety? That’s a new one. The Governator, Arnold Schwarzenegger, will be the conference’s guest of […]

The U.S. General Services Administration decided to make a change in which an Internet infrastructure provider would power its ultra-busy USA.gov Web portal, and the winner is Terremark Worldwide. USA.gov is the federal government’s front-line Web site for all kinds of information about how the government works and which services it provides. Terremark’s Enterprise Cloud […]

PARIS-Online storage newcomer Ocarina Networks said Feb. 25 that it has closed a $20 million round of financing.The Series B round was led by JAFCO Ventures, with major participation from Series A investors Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and Highland Capital Partners. Kleiner Perkins has been an early backer of such IT success stories as […]