Chris Preimesberger

The Station posted an article Nov. 24 about IBM’s new cloud computing services. The upshot: IBM’s Global Services group will now help other companies determine whether their internal cloud computing systems are airtight and fully functional — and certify them as such. It’s the equivalent of the old Good Housekeeping Seal of Approval. (If you […]

High-end disk maker Samsung Electronics announced Nov. 25 that it is beginning to produce 25GB and 50GB solid-state drives for performance-optimized server applications, such as video on demand, Web serving and online transaction processing.The announcement came from the company’s Eschborn, Germany, semiconductor fabricator.The new SLC (single-level cell) SSDs have about twice the random write performance […]

All signs seem to point to a rather practical holiday gift-giving season this year, thanks to the uncertainty in the macroeconomy. Save those frivolous gifts for white elephant parties!Gifts that promise to have usefulness for a long time will be favored, economists say, as people try to get the most for their money.And what could […]

IBM has revealed a new approach to cloud computing, a clear enterprise trend that has been building for at least two years but that really hasn’t been recognized in the same terminology by the world’s largest IT company.Describing it as the “nascent computing model known as ‘cloud,’ ” IBM on Nov. 24 introduced a new […]

We received a tip last night, Nov. 19, that Samsung has started mass-producing 256GB solid-state drives for use in notebooks and desktop PCs. That would make them the highest-capacity drives yet for portable PCs. According to Samsung, the 256GB SSD news notes include: –Double the general performance rate of Samsung’s standard 64GB and 128GB SSDs […]

Where to Start Cutting Data Center Power CostsHere’s a listing of ideas from Emerson Network Power that can be instituted immediately in virtually any data center.Cover Your Bases. It may be more difficult to recover from an outage during tough economic times than during prosperous one. A relatively small investment in precision air conditioning and […]

Data center budgets, along with just about every other budget in the business world, are being evaluated for 2009 and undergoing more scrutiny than usual due to uncertain macroeconomic conditions.So, with data volumes growing at 60 percent to 70 percent per year (Gartner’s educated guess), and power costs expected to increase by 15 percent (the […]

Symantec joined the growing cloud-building platform crowd Nov. 19 by unveiling Veritas Operations Services, a cloud computing-based online services platform that adds a measure of risk management to the package. Veritas, of course, is the storage company that data security provider Symantec acquired back in 2005 for $13.5 billion. All of Symantec’s storage-related products and […]

As most companies do at their user conferences, CA has been busy making news this week at CA World in Las Vegas.CA on Nov. 19 introduced its first integrated suite of enterprise IT management software products designed to manage cloud computing and all the vagaries of virtualization efficiently and cost-effectively.But CA didn’t give the suite […]

Trends can have very different time arcs. They can happen over a long period, such as when the U.S. pioneers moved west over the span of several generations during the 1800s and 1900s. They also can resemble a song shooting up the iTunes chart (“with a bullet,” as the music industry saying goes).For example, in […]