Chris Preimesberger

Can’t have too much good industry news like this: CEO Mark Ward and data storage device maker Copan Systems announced Feb. 16 an $18.5 million round of financing from a group of venture capital companies. The company said it will use the money to expand product development and sales efforts. Wise choice of options. Copan […]

It wasn’t that long ago that Microsoft and virtually any open-source organization wouldn’t want to be found in the same room together, let alone collaborate on a project.Times and attitudes-and the economy-have changed. Virtualization also has played a major role in leading to a new approach. Red Hat, the world’s largest enterprise Linux software provider, […]

As the smoke clears and the Q4 earnings report window closes, it’s a bit daunting to look back and revisit the economic damage key players in the the IT industry have had to suffer in the last three months of 2008. The Q1 2009 forecasts, as one might imagine, are not any better. As one […]

Most IT people have opinions about what is likely to happen in 2009 as a result of the new U.S. president and a struggling worldwide economy. At this time, not a lot of folks are optimistic that conditions will be turning around anytime before the end of the year.In answer to that, let’s twist the […]

Chalk up the data center virtualization industry as another IT sector that is not expected to be seriously damaged by the current recession.The data storage industry has already claimed a seat on that bus-for now, anyway.IT researcher Gartner predicted Feb. 11 that worldwide virtualization software revenue will increase a healthy 43 percent from $1.9 billion […]

Congratulations to CEO and co-founder Phil Soran and the Compellent data storage company for a sparklingly good quarterly report released Feb. 11. Compellent makes intelligent, automated SANs (storage area networks) for enterprises that allow the user to deploy Fibre Channel or iSCSI — or a combination of both connectivity forms. Highlights of the report: –Revenue […]

Whats Not Going to Happen to IT in 2009 Source: Michael Jannery, President & CEO of EntuityEdited by Chris Preimesberger No Title Most people have an opinion about what is likely to happen in 2009 as a result of the new U.S. president and a struggling worldwide economy. At this time, not a lot of […]

SAN FRANCISCO-One day after IBM established its cloud computing development and marketing strategy by instituting a new division and spotlighting a key networking partnership, longtime nemesis Hewlett-Packard made darn sure that it got some face time to explain its stance on this important new market.HP told a group of journalists and analysts here Feb. 10 […]

SAN JOSE, Calif. — It took a while longer than some of its competitors, but as of Feb. 10, it appears that big, hulking IBM finally does have the start of a cohesive cloud computing strategy in place. In 2008, Cisco Systems, Dell, Symantec, Sun Microsystems, Hewlett-Packard, EMC and dozens of lesser-known companies all named […]

SAN JOSE, Calif. — Now that IBM has designated space, capital and personnel for its new Blue Cloud computing division, the newly appointed CTO of that group suddenly finds himself a central player in the hottest current IT trend in the world — and at the world’s largest IT company, no less.Welcome to the wild […]