Chris Preimesberger

Terry Childs, the network architect and administrator who is accused of holding the city of San Francisco’s WLAN hostage for nine days last July in a professional disagreement with his manager, is still watching the wheels of justice move ever so slowly.The fight by Childs to have a court dismiss three of the four felony […]

UPDATED: The Woz is back in the game. Steve Wozniak, co-founder of Apple Computer and one of the most revered technologists of his time, announced Feb. 4 that he coming out of semi-retirement and joining Fusion-io, a Salt Lake City-based storage startup that makes compact solid-state storage arrays. Wozniak will serve as Fusion-io’s chief scientist. […]

SAN JOSE, Calif.-The Green Grid, a mere toddler at age 2, is beginning to put its permanent imprint on the IT industry.No other corporate or industry group has yet been able to define scientifically-to the satisfaction of a majority of IT professionals-how to measure the performance of a data center in power usage and cooling […]

So The Woz is officially back in the real world of day-to-day IT strategy and operations. Steve Wozniak, co-founder and former chief technologist of Apple Computer, revealed Feb. 4 that he is coming out of semi-retirement and joining Fusion-io, a Salt Lake City-based storage startup that makes compact NAND flash storage arrays, as its chief […]

According to one respected industry insider, it might take until 2011 for the consumer hard disk drive market to recover from the doldrums caused by the recession. Seagate, Samsung, Western Digital, and Hitachi — the world’s largest drive manufacturers — have all endured sinking revenue during the last year. They’re apparently going to remain lost […]

Two of the biggest names in IT, storage infrastructure giant EMC and software giant Microsoft, renewed their profitable partnership Feb. 3, announcing an extension of their alliance through 2011. Although the two companies have been partners in producing individual products since the late 1990s, the previous three-year corporate development, sales and marketing agreement between the […]

SanDisk, the world’s largest supplier of flash memory cards and holder of hundreds of valuable industry patents, probably wishes it could forget 2008 and start all over again.The company boasted a stock that sold for more than $33 in May 2008, and shortly afterward it had a generous buyout offer on the table from longtime […]

VMware, which would dearly love to take over as many of the world’s desktop screens as it can, on Feb. 3 unveiled a freely downloadable virtual desktop client for enterprises that allows users to access and use their company machines remotely from any mobile device.The Linux-based VMware View Open Client enables IT managers to host […]

An Exclusive Look at Facebooks Data Center by Chris Preimesberger No Title Colocation and interconnection specialist Switch & Data, a fast-growing colocation company, has properties all over the United States that harbor some very important clients. Among them are a large number of telecommunications companies, content providers, financial institutions, colleges and universities, as well as […]

ZDE Survey Shows Cost/Power Savings Main Motivators for Data Center Upgrades The current mantra, “Doing More with Less,” is clearly borne out in a Ziff Davis Enterprise research study, which asks IT decision-makers how their data center upgrades are affecting business performance. No Title Summary No Title Summary (Cont’d) No Title IT managers and CIOs […]