Chris Preimesberger

According to one respected industry insider, it might take until 2011 for the consumer hard disk drive market to recover from the doldrums caused by the recession. Seagate, Samsung, Western Digital, and Hitachi — the world’s largest drive manufacturers — have all endured sinking revenue during the last year. They’re apparently going to remain lost […]

Two of the biggest names in IT, storage infrastructure giant EMC and software giant Microsoft, renewed their profitable partnership Feb. 3, announcing an extension of their alliance through 2011. Although the two companies have been partners in producing individual products since the late 1990s, the previous three-year corporate development, sales and marketing agreement between the […]

SanDisk, the world’s largest supplier of flash memory cards and holder of hundreds of valuable industry patents, probably wishes it could forget 2008 and start all over again.The company boasted a stock that sold for more than $33 in May 2008, and shortly afterward it had a generous buyout offer on the table from longtime […]

VMware, which would dearly love to take over as many of the world’s desktop screens as it can, on Feb. 3 unveiled a freely downloadable virtual desktop client for enterprises that allows users to access and use their company machines remotely from any mobile device.The Linux-based VMware View Open Client enables IT managers to host […]

An Exclusive Look at Facebooks Data Center by Chris Preimesberger No Title Colocation and interconnection specialist Switch & Data, a fast-growing colocation company, has properties all over the United States that harbor some very important clients. Among them are a large number of telecommunications companies, content providers, financial institutions, colleges and universities, as well as […]

ZDE Survey Shows Cost/Power Savings Main Motivators for Data Center Upgrades The current mantra, “Doing More with Less,” is clearly borne out in a Ziff Davis Enterprise research study, which asks IT decision-makers how their data center upgrades are affecting business performance. No Title Summary No Title Summary (Cont’d) No Title IT managers and CIOs […]

This week’s IT earnings reports, as covered daily by eWEEK staff and affiliated news services, indicate a huge disparity in the performance of companies in the high-tech business world at the moment.A “chosen few” are doing very well, thank you, while a vast majority of enterprises are feeling the pinch and are scrambling to cut […]

Quantum, one of the few data storage companies that competes in the disk and tape hardware and software sectors, Jan. 29 reported its third-quarter fiscal year earnings. Like the results of many U.S. companies, Quantum’s numbers weren’t very pretty, but there were some positive points nonetheless.The company reported a GAAP operating loss of $334 million […]

Enterprise data center and server consolidation projects generally are not being postponed or permanently shelved due to fallout from the worldwide recession-that’s according to the results of a survey of IT decision-makers conducted by Ziff Davis Enterprise, publisher of eWEEK.In fact, survey respondents in both categories reported data center consolidation and server consolidation projects are […]

Data storage juggernaut EMC posted record revenue in its Q4 2008 earnings report Jan. 27, but a long financial hitting streak — a source of pride for the company for more than five years — has been broken.The world’s largest data storage infrastructure company reported record fourth-quarter revenue of $4.02 billion, an increase of 8 […]

CommVault launched Jan. 26 a new version of its Simpana data management software package that includes a whopping 140 new features plus the industry’s first embedded global deduplication module.Simpana 8’s ability to automate the data deduplication function anywhere in an enterprise’s IT system-starting with the data file entering the system and ending when it finds […]

Gone are the days of the 80 percent revenue growth it experienced earlier in the decade, but virtualization kingpin VMware continues to produce handsome profits and beat analyst revenue estimates despite a sluggish economy.VMware, as the world market leader in virtualization software used in desktop computers and data center servers, announced its financial results for […]