Chris Preimesberger

SANTA CLARA, Calif.—A new IT consortium dedicated to raising public awareness of the need for service innovation and increasing the level of funding for services research was launched here May 30, and it immediately introduced a strategic supporter at the federal government level to help find some funding sources. The Services Research and Innovation Initiative, […]

Remember information lifecycle management? It is still around and making money for some companies, albeit in a quiet way. ILM can be as simple as filing a word document into a desktop folder or as complicated as multi-tiered storage, archiving and authentication policies. Four years ago, when ILM first became a hot commodity, it was […]

Singapore Airlines is offering access to Suns StarOffice 8 office productivity suite free of charge to passengers on its new Boeing 777-300ER aircraft. StarOffice, Suns proprietary version of OpenOffice.org, runs on the aircrafts Linux server and is accessed via a seat-back terminal at each passengers seat, according to Sun. Thanks to new USB ports embedded […]

A new survey of IT administrators of kindergarten through 12th grade schools indicates that 90 percent of them have no plan in place to handle the newly mandated retention of electronically stored information by the federal court system. The findings came as a result of a customer survey released May 29 by storage vendor CommVault […]

Hitachi Data Systems Chief Operating Officer Minoru Kosuge was promoted to CEO on May 29 following the resignation of David E. Robertson, who has taken a new position at Hewlett-Packard as senior vice president and general manager of the companys enterprise storage business, effective May 30. Hitachi also announced the appointment of Jack Domme as […]

A startup in Alameda, Calif., plans to release a kind of holy grail of software in the third or fourth week of June. Lina said its dual-licensed virtual Linux machine will run more or less normal Linux applications under Windows, Mac or Linux, with a look and feel native to each. The concept recalls Java, […]

On-demand IT services provider Jamcracker has landed a major deal with IP service provider XO Communications to deliver a suite of collaboration, mobility and security software applications for small and midsize businesses. XO will provide these services over Jamcrackers advanced, nationwide facilities-based IP network, called Jamcracker Services Delivery Network. XO, based in Reston, Va., serves […]

Hewlett Packard customers now have the option to redeem rebates online—without submitting any paperwork—when purchasing consumer technology products at the HP Home & Home Office Store, the Palo Alto, Calif., company announced May 24. The “paperless” rebate program gives U.S. customers the option to redeem their rebates by entering just two pieces of information online—their […]

Data security and storage provider Symantec announced May 23 the findings of a study that reveals some harsh realities but might not be much of a surprise to many IT managers: IT professionals worldwide struggle with the increasing complexity of data center management while at the same time facing severe budget and personnel constraints. Respondents […]

High-performance storage system maker Panasas announced May 22 that it will release the source code of its parallel file system client software, called DirectFLOW, to the open-source community. The Parallel Network File System, or pNFS, is a complex Panasas-created technology engineered to solve storage I/O bottlenecks and accelerate customer deployments of parallel storage solutions, a […]