Chris Preimesberger

Today’s Cisco Systems press/analyst conference in San Jose to launch the company’s new Unified Computing System wasn’t unlike a lot of other press events we so-called “journos” attend. But it had its memorable moments. First of all, Cisco’s ebullient CEO, John Chambers, who really did not want to identify possible competitors in the new-generation data […]

SAN JOSE, Calif. — Reaction to Cisco Systems’ launch of its Unified Computing System data center platform came swiftly on March 16, and the reviews were clearly mixed. A lot of IT people and companies apparently were interested in this news, which cuts across all parts of the data center: software, hardware, services, virtualization, storage, […]

SAN JOSE, Calif. — Cisco Systems officially entered the data center systems business March 16, with CEO John Chambers comparing the move to previous landmark networking initiatives that had routers developing into switches in 1993 and PBX to VOIP telephony a few years later. Rather generically called the “Cisco Unified Computing System,” the initiative consists […]

March 16, 2009, stands to be a pretty big day in the long, successful history of Cisco Systems.It’s been a not-very-well-kept “secret” for years that the world’s No. 1 networking company has wanted to shed the image of being the pipefitter for the Internet and delve deeper into what really makes the new-generation data center […]

Forrester Research has unearthed more evidence that cloud computing, also known as software as a service, is rapidly gaining traction in new vertical business sectors.The Cambridge, Mass.-based IT researcher said in a new report published March 13 that providers are now finding success selling SAAS subscription applications in Web conferencing, collaboration, and ITSM (IT service […]

SAN FRANCISCO — Analysts and researchers have been saying it for months — perhaps even a couple of years — but the idea that enterprise use of software as a service may now be the hottest sector of IT is now being quantified by those actually using it in the real world. According to industry […]

Fusion-io, which makes handheld-size solid-state storage arrays for enterprise systems, launched March 12 a new product called ioDrive Duo, which doubles the capacity of Fusion-io’s PCI Express-based ioDrive storage array.The company is billing the ioDrive Duo as the “fastest server-based solid-state storage” package available.Performance for multiple ioDrive Duos scales linearly, the company said, allowing an […]

Facebook, the world’s hottest social networking Web site that averages about 16,000 new members each day, updated its home page for the second time in the last eight months on March 11.Users now will get a real-time stream of posts from their friends and acquaintances on the home page. Users can control the stream of […]

EMC, which has been focusing more research and development on software and services for the data center outside the specific scope of its storage infrastructure, March 11 launched a new tool that provides automated root-cause analysis for virtual infrastructures.In a recent survey of IT managers regarding virtual machine management, the No. 1 problem that continues […]

Follow-up is a good thing, especially after one offers predictions. It shows boldness, candidness and strength of character—especially if the predictions are way off the mark. In March 2006, the data center industry group AFCOM, which has a research arm called the Data Center Institute, released a study called “Five Bold Predictions for the Data […]