Chris Preimesberger

SANTA CLARA, Calif.-It took Sun Microsystems 27 years to get it to where it is today as one of the world’s most innovative IT companies. It took exactly three minutes on July 16 to obtain approval from stockholders for the company to lose its independent status and become property of longtime business partner Oracle.No Sun […]

It is now possible to back up information you have saved in cloud services-such as e-mail and Twitter dispatches-in the cloud itself.BackupMy.net, a year-old Austin, Texas, startup, began offering free backup of Twitter messages on BackupMyTweets.com back in February 2009 and now claims to be storing an average of nearly 2 million “tweets” daily, CEO […]

People who watch the numbers in corporate offices will go for this: A data center manager now can utilize a free online service to determine storage capital cost savings due to deduplication and have the dollars-saved information ready on demand if asked for it.Storage management and disaster recovery provider Acronis on July 15 made available […]

In what might be its final preliminary report on quarterly financials, Sun Microsystems said July 14 that it expects revenues for the fourth quarter of fiscal 2009 to be in the range of $2.58 billion and $2.68 billion, down more than $1 billion from a year ago.Sun recorded revenues of $3.78 billion for the fourth […]

Cloud services provider Rackspace on July 14 released the public beta of a new API for software developers interested in better and more direct control over their own hosted computing structures.The Cloud Servers API immediately becomes an alternative to Amazon EC2, an online platform used for a large amount of cloud application development.Rackspace Cloud General […]

A full 18 months after IBM plunked down $300 million in January 2008 to buy relatively unknown XIV and its large-scale storage systems, Big Blue on July 14 finally announced its own enhancements to the product line.XIV’s Tier 1 external-disk system is completely distributed. It packages all data storage into 1MB chunks and spreads them […]

Newcomer AccelOps announced it has launched what it claims is the industry’s “first all-in-one data center and IT service management package” for the midtier market. No hardware required: It can be delivered as either a virtual appliance or a Web service. Whether it’s the “first” may be arguable — especially by companies named CA, BMC, […]

10 Things You Probably Dont Know About Cloud Storage and Computing by Chris Preimesberger Using Public and Private Clouds Cloud computing isn’t meant to replace a company’s current infrastructure or help outsource its entire data center operations. Most enterprises take advantage of existing resources through a mix of public and private clouds. Utilizing overflow storage […]

The U.S. subsidiary of Germany’s largest software company, Software AG, announced July 13 that it will acquire German business process management consultant IDS Scheer for $21 per share.Software AG USA, based in Reston, Va., said that it has already agreed to buy out IDS Scheer’s two biggest shareholders-co-founders August-Wilhelm Scheer and Alexander Pocsay, who together […]

Hitachi Global Storage Technologies, known in the past only for its enterprise storage products, on July 13 launched three consumer products that put the company directly into a growing market that already includes Iomega, Seagate, Toshiba, Synology and Cisco Systems.The launch marks the first products resulting from the company’s acquisition of Fabrik in February 2009. […]