Chris Preimesberger

As the smoke clears and the Q4 earnings report window closes, it’s a bit daunting to look back and revisit the economic damage key players in the the IT industry have had to suffer in the last three months of 2008. The Q1 2009 forecasts, as one might imagine, are not any better. As one […]

Most IT people have opinions about what is likely to happen in 2009 as a result of the new U.S. president and a struggling worldwide economy. At this time, not a lot of folks are optimistic that conditions will be turning around anytime before the end of the year.In answer to that, let’s twist the […]

Chalk up the data center virtualization industry as another IT sector that is not expected to be seriously damaged by the current recession.The data storage industry has already claimed a seat on that bus-for now, anyway.IT researcher Gartner predicted Feb. 11 that worldwide virtualization software revenue will increase a healthy 43 percent from $1.9 billion […]

Congratulations to CEO and co-founder Phil Soran and the Compellent data storage company for a sparklingly good quarterly report released Feb. 11. Compellent makes intelligent, automated SANs (storage area networks) for enterprises that allow the user to deploy Fibre Channel or iSCSI — or a combination of both connectivity forms. Highlights of the report: –Revenue […]

Whats Not Going to Happen to IT in 2009 Source: Michael Jannery, President & CEO of EntuityEdited by Chris Preimesberger No Title Most people have an opinion about what is likely to happen in 2009 as a result of the new U.S. president and a struggling worldwide economy. At this time, not a lot of […]

SAN FRANCISCO-One day after IBM established its cloud computing development and marketing strategy by instituting a new division and spotlighting a key networking partnership, longtime nemesis Hewlett-Packard made darn sure that it got some face time to explain its stance on this important new market.HP told a group of journalists and analysts here Feb. 10 […]

SAN JOSE, Calif. — It took a while longer than some of its competitors, but as of Feb. 10, it appears that big, hulking IBM finally does have the start of a cohesive cloud computing strategy in place. In 2008, Cisco Systems, Dell, Symantec, Sun Microsystems, Hewlett-Packard, EMC and dozens of lesser-known companies all named […]

SAN JOSE, Calif. — Now that IBM has designated space, capital and personnel for its new Blue Cloud computing division, the newly appointed CTO of that group suddenly finds himself a central player in the hottest current IT trend in the world — and at the world’s largest IT company, no less.Welcome to the wild […]

Terry Childs, the network architect and administrator who is accused of holding the city of San Francisco’s WLAN hostage for nine days last July in a professional disagreement with his manager, is still watching the wheels of justice move ever so slowly.The fight by Childs to have a court dismiss three of the four felony […]

UPDATED: The Woz is back in the game. Steve Wozniak, co-founder of Apple Computer and one of the most revered technologists of his time, announced Feb. 4 that he coming out of semi-retirement and joining Fusion-io, a Salt Lake City-based storage startup that makes compact solid-state storage arrays. Wozniak will serve as Fusion-io’s chief scientist. […]

SAN JOSE, Calif.-The Green Grid, a mere toddler at age 2, is beginning to put its permanent imprint on the IT industry.No other corporate or industry group has yet been able to define scientifically-to the satisfaction of a majority of IT professionals-how to measure the performance of a data center in power usage and cooling […]

So The Woz is officially back in the real world of day-to-day IT strategy and operations. Steve Wozniak, co-founder and former chief technologist of Apple Computer, revealed Feb. 4 that he is coming out of semi-retirement and joining Fusion-io, a Salt Lake City-based storage startup that makes compact NAND flash storage arrays, as its chief […]