Chris Preimesberger

Data center budgets, along with just about every other budget in the business world, are being evaluated for 2009 and undergoing more scrutiny than usual due to uncertain macroeconomic conditions.So, with data volumes growing at 60 percent to 70 percent per year (Gartner’s educated guess), and power costs expected to increase by 15 percent (the […]

Symantec joined the growing cloud-building platform crowd Nov. 19 by unveiling Veritas Operations Services, a cloud computing-based online services platform that adds a measure of risk management to the package. Veritas, of course, is the storage company that data security provider Symantec acquired back in 2005 for $13.5 billion. All of Symantec’s storage-related products and […]

As most companies do at their user conferences, CA has been busy making news this week at CA World in Las Vegas.CA on Nov. 19 introduced its first integrated suite of enterprise IT management software products designed to manage cloud computing and all the vagaries of virtualization efficiently and cost-effectively.But CA didn’t give the suite […]

Trends can have very different time arcs. They can happen over a long period, such as when the U.S. pioneers moved west over the span of several generations during the 1800s and 1900s. They also can resemble a song shooting up the iTunes chart (“with a bullet,” as the music industry saying goes).For example, in […]

EMC on Nov. 18 introduced upgrades for several of its data protection products, including those that perform analysis and reporting, backup for Microsoft and VMware virtual environments, and data deduplication.Data deduplication, which eliminates redundant data from a disk storage device in order to lower storage space requirements, has been a powerful driver for EMC sales […]

When an enterprise decides to invest in a data warehouse to handle storage and data analytics, it generally takes a warehouse-sized pile of capital plus a commensurate amount of time and effort to install and deploy it. Let’s face it: Data warehouses are the aircraft carriers of the data storage world. You simply don’t acquire, […]

One of the mainstays of Sun Microsystems’ business over the 26 years of its existence has been high-performance computing. On Nov. 18, at the Supercomputing conference in Austin, Texas, Sun unveiled a list of new products aimed squarely at that market.Sun introduced new preconfigured clustered storage and computing hardware-software packages and new data center management […]

What’s in a brand name? Confusion, for one thing — if you change the moniker often enough. EMC on Nov. 17 established a new Seattle-based subsidiary called Decho (short for “Digital Echo”), which will focus its attention on helping people “protect, manage and enrich the ever-growing quantity of personal digital information in their lives.” Funny, […]

It might seem on the surface to be a little late in the game, but data center management software maker CA is now officially in the on-demand software service business.In actuality, CA has been developing hosted versions of some of its server-based data management products for about four years. In fact, about 1,000 of its […]

Yahoo co-founder Jerry Yang’s tenure as CEO of the troubled Internet giant took a key turn Nov. 17 when he announced his resignation under apparent pressure from the company’s board of directors. But Yang won’t be leaving anytime soon. The company announced in a press release late in the day that Yang would remain in […]

You’ve probably heard of virtual machine sprawl, the phenomenon data center managers experience when the number of VMs simply gets out of control in an enterprise system.Well, network switches may also be starting to get out of control, too.Hewlett-Packard Nov. 17 introduced its Virtual Connect Flex-10 Ethernet module, a storage and server networking hardware/software product […]

A couple of Canadian-born superstars in their own diverse fields, rocker Neil Young and the “Father of Java,” Dr. James Gosling of Sun Microsystems, found some common ground Nov. 11 at Sun’s Menlo Park, Calif., campus. For about 14 months, Young, a longtime resident of nearby La Honda, has been working with a team from […]