Chris Preimesberger

Santa Barbara, Calif.-based RightScale, which makes cloud computing management software, announced Dec. 8 that it has secured $13 million in its second round of venture capital funding. Index Ventures was the lead investor.Undoubtedly, this has been in the works since before the Wall Street and mortgage-market implosions. Nonetheless, whenever a VC funding story comes to […]

SAN FRANCISCO–Intel may be known as the world’s largest microprocessor maker, but not many people are aware that the company also is doing a great deal of research in order to get into the energy-sensor and power-optimization businesses.The overall goal: Finding creative ways to identify and harness new sources of power for IT devices that […]

Zigzagging Wall Street numbers may be giving investors indigestion, the mortgage and credit card markets may be in tatters, and the auto industry may be on the verge of collapse. But the IT disk storage market keeps chugging along well into the black as if the macroeconomy were just fine.Researcher IDC reported Dec. 5 in […]

Data center and power-supply industry veteran Paul Marcoux was hired a year ago to serve as director of all of Cisco Systems’ green IT initiatives, and that’s one tall order. Cisco employs some 68,000 people and owns dozens of workplaces around the world.Marcoux (pronounced Mar-KOO), whose official title is vice president of green engineering in […]

LAS VEGAS–Novell on Dec. 3 will introduce four new data workload management software packages emanating from its $205 million acquisition of Platespin eight months ago.Novell claims to be the first and only vendor to provide complete data center management of the entire workload lifecycle, across multiple operating systems, multiple hypervisors, physical and virtual environments.“Data centers […]

LAS VEGAS-Because the virtualization of IT infrastructure now is so pervasive and integral to the daily operation of data centers, it would behoove IT managers to take a look at the next five years and get a projection of where trends in this technology might be heading.So, Thomas Bittman, a Gartner data center research vice […]

LAS VEGAS-Few IT managers ever get the opportunity to put together a well-written, well-researched strategy with detailed architecture to build a fresh new data center.What is most likely to happen in the real world is that a manager will inherit an older data center-one in which the inventory increases over time due to business initiatives, […]

LAS VEGAS — The concept of a so-called “meta operating system” for data centers and smaller IT systems is getting a lot of attention this week at the Gartner Data Center Conference here at the MGM Grand Hotel.Fundamentally, a metaOS is a virtualization layer of software, wedged between applications and distributed computing resources, that utilizes […]

Exactly two years ago, the U.S. Supreme Court quietly enacted a package of changes to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, a set of legal guidelines that govern all levels of courts in the United States.Among them were changes to rules 26 and 34 through 37, which clarify the issue of e-discovery of critical evidence.These […]

Rain or shine, Macy’s will stage the 82nd edition of its world-famous Thanksgiving Day Parade on Central Park West in New York City the morning of Nov. 27.And, as it does with just about everything else in the world, IT will have played a major role in the organization and presentation of the 2.5-mile-long event, […]