Frank J. Ohlhorst

About

Frank Ohlhorst is an award-winning technology journalist and IT industry analyst, with extensive experience as a business consultant, editor, author, and blogger. Frank works with both technology startups and established technology ventures, helping them to build channel programs, launch products, validate product quality, create marketing materials, author case studies, eBooks and white papers.

ZyXEL Melds Low-Cost IP Security Cameras With Remote Access via the Cloud

Setting up the typical video surveillance system is normally a complicated endeavor that at best delivers muddy video stored on magnetic media. What’s more, typical video surveillance technology uses a time-lapse paradigm for archival and review purposes-probably not the best way to bring video security into a business, data center or even a home. ZyXEL […]

Hitachi Looks to Deliver Big Storage in a Small Package

Hitachi Global Storage Technologies announced that it has added two new hard drives to its G-Technology series of storage devices. The new drives come in 1TB and 4TB sizes and are incorporated into the G-Technology G-Drive and G-Raid solutions. The new drives bring impressive amounts of storage space to what are considered mobile or small-business […]

Asetek Fights Data Center Heat With Liquid Cooling

Heat is one of the biggest enemies in the data center, with the potential to cost both an enterprise and an IT department a lot of money. Heat generation in the data center contributes to system failures, reduces component life, increases environmental control costs and can be difficult and expensive to mitigate. Hardware vendor Asetek […]

Internap Acquires Cloud Hosting Provider Voxel

In what may be a sign of the times, Internap Network Services has acquired hosting provider Voxel Holdings in a deal that will boost the company’s cloud-computing offerings and expand its base of small business customers. Internap has become one of the latest companies to expand cloud services via an acquisition. The all-cash deal, which […]

Amazon Elastic Cloud Computer Cuts Cost of Supercomputer Access

Getting compute time on a supercomputer has long been a privilege limited to physicists, scientists, medical researchers and other academic types.Researchers had to apply for time by submitting project proposals in hopes they would be deemed worthy of approval and priority access to a supercomputer. In fact, getting time on a supercomputer used to be […]

VDI Evolves Beyond Desktop Replacement

Most enterprise administrators have viewed Virtual Desktop Infrastructure as a way to deliver enterprise desktops to users more efficiently. However, VDI can deliver more than just a typical business desktop; the technology can also be used to deliver specialized business services. A case in point is bank hardware vendor Diebold, which is now running a […]

The Eaton 5PX

The Eaton 5PX Solid and well-built, Eaton’s 5PX3000 can be mounted in a rack or set up vertically on a shelf. Easy to Set Up and Maintain Well-labeled outlets, ports and connectors make setup quite easy, while reducing wiring confusion in racks. An EPM port is included, which supports additional batteries. Display An integrated LCD […]

Eaton 5PX UPS Offering Makes Going Green Easier

How green is your IT? That’s a question asked by many business managers and IT staffers alike. The problem with developing a green strategy for your business is trying to measure your success when it comes to saving power, especially at the device level. Uninterruptible power supply (UPS) manufacturer Eaton has taken a hard look […]

OpenLogic Brings Open-Source PaaS to Rackspace

Open-source cloud services provider OpenLogic announced Dec. 27 it has joined the Cloud Tools program with Rackspace Hosting, enabling CloudSwing to be deployed on the Rackspace Cloud. Rackspace Cloud Tools is a showcase site for the company’s strategic partners and independent developers to work with Rackspace Cloud to share tools, applications and services. “The Rackspace […]

Akamai Technologies Makes Strategic Purchase of Cotendo

Akamai Technologies, which has made its name providing content delivery networks designed to boost Web performance for high-bandwidth uses such as video and big data, is looking to expand its market share with the purchase of competitor Cotendo. The $268 million cash purchase is Akamai’s second largest after the $2.19 billion acquisition of InterVU in […]