Chris Preimesberger

About 1 billion viewers will be watching Super Bowl XLII Feb. 3, but few will give much thought to, let alone understand, how much digital data is being fed to them-and how it’s all assembled and telecast. Mike Davies gives it a lot of thought. Davies, director of field operations for Fox Sports, spent some […]

“On the road again/just can’t wait to get on the road again …” The Station has indeed been on the road for the last three days, this time in Washington, D.C., encamped at the historic Willard Intercontinental, located a mere one block from the White House. The assignment: Help present (as well as cover) the […]

ICANN, the U.S.-based non-profit agency that administers Internet domains, wants to end its 17-month Joint Project Agreement relationship with the Department of Commerce and return to being an independent organization.The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers is an international public benefit, non-profit corporation responsible for the management and oversight of the coordination of the […]

A new study confirms what a great many people in IT already suspected: Companies of all sizes are vulnerable to costly and damaging e-mail outages because they trust their messaging infrastructure to a single server and do not have an adequate backup and recovery plan in case of a disaster.ApplicationContinuity.org surveyed 434 IT professionals responsible […]

EMC is unveiling a new software-as-a-service strategy and releasing its first offering using it. MozyEnterprise, rolled out Jan. 22, is an online storage service for desktops, laptops and remote Windows servers that EMC bought last year in its $150 million acquisition of Berkeley Data Systems.EMC also announced that all of its forthcoming SAAS products and […]

IBM announced a new version of its data center automation software Jan. 18 that takes the concept of change management to a new, software-as-a-service level.Tivoli Provisioning Manager 5.1.1, designed specifically for large or small companies that have a catalog of products and services, aims to help users benefit from so-called “cloud computing” by aggregating tedious, […]

Everything’s rapidly becoming virtualized — in data storage, in the data center, in video game playing, in life itself. Movies, for example, are becoming mostly virtualized, with increasing numbers of computer-created images replacing real, live video. For the record, virtualization is really a big lie; it’s the creation of a virtual — rather than a […]

When it’s in a hunt, Oracle always manages to capture its target. The news Jan. 16 that the Redwood City, Calif.-based enterprise systems maker had finally locked up its latest quarry, BEA Systems, should come as no surprise to anybody who knows President & CEO Larry Ellison and his modus operandi. It’s really very simple: […]

There’s a lot going on in data storage and security–more than one might imagine–this week at the Macworld Expo 2008 here in foggy San Francisco. Here’s a quick-hit listing of some of the new storage product happenings at the venerable Moscone Center: —Apple CEO Steve Jobs unveiled Jan. 14 during his keynote speech a wireless […]

EMC surprised the data storage industry with a move Jan. 14 that wasn’t expected until perhaps the second half of this year.The company, based in Hopkinton, Mass., claimed to be the first enterprise storage vendor to integrate flash-based solid state drives into its core product portfolio. EMC’s new 73GB and 146GB SSDs will become available […]