Chris Preimesberger

Cisco Systems has been building and selling its Unified Computing Systems line of pre-configured, converged servers since the launch in March 2009, and it’s been a source of both pride and profit for the company ever since. A UCS consists of proprietary data center architecture, servers, plenty of dense storage and a set of management […]

Manifold, a San Francisco-based startup dedicated to finding and managing essential services for software developers, has launched from stealth behind a $15 million Series A funding round. The venture capital was raised by OMERS Ventures, Boldstart Ventures, Version One Ventures and Amplify Partners.  Manifold, which officially started business on Sept. 21, aims to redefine the developer […]

DigitalOcean, which provides a cloud-based work environment for nearly 1 million developers, took its franchise a step further Sept. 20 with a new object-storage service it calls Spaces. The company claims Spaces, which runs on Amazon Web Services S3, provides a scalable and cost-effective way to address complex storage needs inside the same developer-friendly user […]

Enterprise storage admins need to wake up and smell the coffee: They are trying to handle the growing onslaught of data from all directions by using a set of file systems that were invented long before any of the IT trends we care about today came into being. That’s like a third baseman trying to […]

Toshiba, which invented NAND flash memory in the late 1980s that has been used in virtually all servers, smartphones, laptops and tablet PCs for years, said Sept. 20 that it is selling that prize business to a group led by Bain Capital and South Korean chipmaker SK Hynix for $18 billion. Reuters reported that under […]

How to Ensure Your Organization’s Network Is Safe From Intrusion Establishing trust between the enterprise and its IT infrastructure is an essential part of security. Organizations must be confident that valuable data transmitted across a network is safe from theft and intrusion. This notion of trust implies the need for independent bodies to define what […]

We already have mobile publishing platforms for images, email, social networking and chat; they’re called smartphones. The next step in the continuing democratization of media might be everyone having their own television studios, and that’s apparently not that far away. This is not craziness. Wowza Media Systems, respected for more than a decade for its […]

It’s hard to believe that Veritas Technologies, one of the world’s true data storage survivors, has been privately owned and operated for two years now after concluding a contentious 10-year relationship with former owner Symantec. The 34-year-old company is hosting its annual Vision users’ conference in Las Vegas this week, and with it came news […]

Hitachi is staging its user conference, Hitachi NEXT, this week in Las Vegas, and the company let loose a barrage of storage news Sept. 19 as a result. They’re also launching a new spinoff out of the company. Following are news highlights from the event:  Hitachi Vantara More than just an organizational update, Hitachi Vantara […]

Deployment of an IT device or service can never be too easy. Staples Inc. certainly had the right idea with its iconic “Easy Button” ad campaign. When it comes to integrating data from a silo to any new system, the term “easy” is never invoked. Data integration, even after 50 or 60 years of smart […]