Chris Preimesberger

Hewlett-Packard Sept. 15 laid down the strategy it will use in its quest to close the market gap it faces behind IBM, the world’s No. 1 IT services vendor, and that strategy comes at a cost in something more valuable than dollars: human resources.Hewlett-Packard said it would cut 24,600 jobs as part of its $13.9 […]

Cloud/utility computing provider 3Tera, which serves up computing power, data storage or applications over a grid to thousands or millions of users for a monthly fee, Sept. 15 revealed a partnership with Citrix Systems designed to make these services available to a wider market.The agreement, announced at VMworld in Las Vegas, will enable midmarket and […]

All storage, structured or unstructured, requires security of some kind, even if it’s simply flipping an on/off switch or pulling the USB plug on a direct-attached external disk.Database storage security, the subject of this article, can be slightly more complicated than that.I talked recently with Ted Julian, vice president of consultancy Application Security, about the […]

UPDATED: We’re talking high-performance computing and storage today. CERN’s Large Hadron Collider [here’s a link to live webcams onsite] is in the process of pushing the venerable Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, affectionately known as SLAC, into the background as the world’s most powerful subatomic particle mover/smasher. (Will someone please tell me how anything can actually […]

MENLO PARK, Calif.-When Sun Microsystems, showing off its new Java-based xVM virtual desktop for a group of journalists and analysts Sept. 10, demonstrated an Apple laptop that was running Linux, Solaris and Windows in separate instances on the same screen, people immediately put their coffees down and started taking fervent notes.What they were seeing for […]

Sun Microsystems and its longtime top-tier rival, Microsoft, continue to come to technological common ground that would have been impossible to imagine just two years ago.At a daylong launch event in Bellevue, Wash., Sun and Microsoft announced new cross-platform virtualization initiatives Sept. 8 that validate Sun’s new xVM virtualization platform to run on Windows servers […]

IBM rolled out an assortment of 30 new storage-related products and services Sept. 8 and said that it took an investment of $2 billion, three years, and 2,500 engineers and other specialists from nine countries to complete the mission.IBM made what it called its “largest information infrastructure launch ever” at its Storage Symposium conference in […]

Good old direct-attached data storage, the original digital storage model that dates back to IBM’s original spinning desk platter in the mid-1950s, doesn’t make a lot of news these days. Like a shy boy or girl on the sidelines at a junior-high sock hop, it prefers to let other newer and fancier technologies grab attention […]

Sun Microsystems is starting to show some real traction in selling its new Open Storage systems. And not a moment too soon, because Sun has had its difficulties lately. In IDC’s Worldwide Disk Storage Systems Quarterly Tracker released Sept. 5, Sun moved ahead of such international competitors as Hitachi Data Systems and Fujitsu and into […]

You know, Virtualization Review Editor in Chief Tom Valovic makes a darn good point in his blog: Cisco Systems might well be exploring the idea of buying VMware. And it should. Cisco already owns 7 percent of VMware’s Class A stock, or about 1.5 percent of the company. EMC owns 84 percent; most of the […]

It’s rather interesting that both IBM and Hewlett-Packard decided to unveil on the same day, Sept. 2, new virtualization-ready blade servers that have been in development for months.It’s reminiscent of NBC and CBS, which often appear to be in cahoots of some kind when Jay Leno and David Letterman “just happen” to take vacations at […]

VMware continues to have a rough year.First, VMware posted a lackluster Q4 2007 quarterly report Jan. 29 which caused the paper value of the company to drop a whopping $8 billion in a matter of hours in after-market trading.In June, super IT power Microsoft became a major competitor with its new Hyper V virtualization platform. […]