Chris Preimesberger

Judging by the reaction of analysts and telecom/networking industry people, the Jan. 14 news that Nortel is filing for protection from creditors under Chapter 11 of the U.S. bankruptcy laws was not much of a surprise.North America’s largest telecom infrastructure and unified communications provider made the court filing in both Canada and the United States […]

By all accounts, 2008 was the year storage virtualization graduated from the University of Testing & Quality Assurance and matriculated into the real world of business production. Industry researchers Forrester, IDC, Gartner, Enterprise Strategy Group and The Yankee Group have all reported that virtual machines — whether used for storage, operating systems, enterprise applications or […]

Yahoo, hampered by takeover attempts and struggling with diminishing returns for the last three years, decided on its new leadership direction Jan. 13 when it introduced the former CEO and current executive chairman of Autodesk, Carol Bartz, as its new CEO. Bartz, 60, replaces Yahoo co-founder Jerry Yang, who resigned Nov. 17 as CEO but […]

Seagate Technology, the world’s largest maker of hard disk drives for servers, storage and PCs, became another victim of the recession Jan. 12 when it announced that its CEO and its president and chief operating officer had resigned and that it would cut 10 percent of its U.S. work force of about 8,000 people.Corporate spokesperson […]

Networking hardware and software provider Nortel on Jan. 12 launched the Nortel ERS 5600 series line of Ethernet routing switches, which have 10 Gigabit Ethernet uplink connectivity and are intended for use in deployment of unified communications networks for large enterprises.The five new stackable switches were designed and engineered in-house at Nortel.The Nortel Ethernet Routing […]

Seven Ways to Reduce IT Costs Using Master Data Management Master Data Management software was developed to help enterprises align their master data assets—documents, Internet and intranet sites, e-mail, spreadsheets, charts and graphs, audio, video151;across multiple systems and departments. It also provides a 24/7 view into the system, plus reporting and analysis on all the […]

Not to be outdone by its main competitor, Samsung, at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, solid-state drive maker SanDisk Jan. 8 launched a third-generation family of SSDs — appropriately called the G3 series — that use multilevel-cell NAND flash memory.The G3 series drives are intended as drop-in replacements for standard spinning hard-disk drives […]

Sun Microsystems may not be making a lot of money these days, but it is not afraid to keep investing in areas that it deems important. And the company considers cloud computing very important to its future.The struggling IT giant, whose stock has been mired in single digits since August 2008, revealed Jan. 7 that […]

EMC, the world’s largest seller of enterprise data storage hardware and software, said Jan. 7 that it will trim about 2,400 jobs-or about 6 percent of its staff over the next 12 to 15 months-in light of the global recession.In filing its preliminary quarterly financial report to the SEC, EMC also reported quarterly profit that […]

PC peripheral maker Logitech said Jan. 6 that due to “a deteriorating retail environment” it has withdrawn its fiscal year 2009 growth targets for sales and operating income and will lay off 15 percent of its global salaried work force of about 9,400.The Switzerland-based company, which makes mice, keyboards, Webcams, speakers, Internet radios and gaming […]

Solid-state semiconductor maker Samsung revealed Jan. 6 that it has developed a new enterprise-level 2.5-inch, 100GB solid-state flash drive that can handle heavy-duty applications such as video on demand, streaming media content delivery and online transaction processing while consuming substantially less power than a standard spinning disk drive.The new enterprise SS805 SSD, introduced at the […]

A recent Yankee Group global survey contends that the use of Macs in the enterprise is on the rise. The researcher reported that approximately 80 percent of all businesses have Macs and the OS X operating system installed in their networks. Hmmm. That seems a bit high to me, but I’ll give the Yankees the […]