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Macworld Shows Off a Slew of Creative, Colorful New Products

January 28th, 2011 | No Comments

Some 270 Apple products vendors& the highest number in the 27-year history of the Macworld Expo& and upwards of 20,000 attendees were on hand Jan. 27 for the three-day event at Moscone West in San Francisco. That is, all except Apple itself, which is MIA for the second year. Macworld President Paul Kent told eWEEK that about one-third of the vendors and half the attendees are new to the event this year, a clear indicator that Apple is reaching new stature in the world market with the iPhone 4 and iPad products it released in 2010. On the show floor, a flurry of color and activity could be found on Day 1, with new music-, photo- and storage-related products; an iPad-connected smart-card reader; a Macintosh-run PBX phone system; a clever write-on-paper, show-on-screen classroom system for teachers; and a video-sharing application for iPhones and iPads. Entertainment this year includes comedian Sinbad and Dream Theater keyboardist Jordan Rudness, who will demo his Morphwhiz music application, which is an iPad synthesizer he uses in live performances. Here are highlights of this year’s show. (Photos by Chris Preimesberger, eWEEK.) – …

Virtualization Draws Record Crowd to VMworld 2010

September 2nd, 2010 | No Comments

Plenty of IT events during the last two years have been "ghost towns," in the words of at least one respected IT analyst, Charles King, and he’s right. However, this year’s seventh annual VMworld conference and expo at San Francisco’s Moscone Center belied that image. More than 17,000 people roamed the show floor, crowded technical meetings, and heard VMware executives and their industry partners talk about their technology "road maps" in general sessions. Virtualization continues to be a huge topic of discussion. Following are some snapshots of various parts of the show. (All photos by Chris Preimesberger, eWEEK) – …

Fujitsu Massively Expands Data Center Co-location Capacity

July 12th, 2010 | No Comments

Fujitsu America’s Sunnyvale, Calif., headquarters is an expansive piece of property that once housed large-scale manufacturing operations. Over the years that manufacturing capacity has been relocated. So the company has transformed much of that space into data center-ready square footage& 32,071 square feet, to be exact. Fujitsu isn’t new to the data center business. For years, the company has hosted custom application deployments for customers who requested such service. Now it has invested tens of millions of dollars and is opening more of its secure data center floor space to companies seeking professional Web, cloud computing and application co-location services. Fujitsu also has another distinction: The first hydrogen fuel cell installed in Silicon Valley provides part of its power capacity for the data center facility. This eWEEK slide show highlights some of the features Fujitsu built into this data center complex. (Photos by Chris Preimesberger and by Fujitsu.) – …

Inside Intel`s Hottest Advanced Computing Projects

July 8th, 2010 | No Comments

Just before the July 4 holiday weekend, Intel hosted its annual Labs Day at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, Calif., where it provided a public preview of many of its advanced computing projects that are currently under development. Some of the technology will eventually find its way into consumer and commercial products. Some of the more futuristic projects will just take radical ideas one step farther down the path to reality. This slide show highlights some of the more interesting projects at the June 30 event. (Photos by Chris Preimesberger, eWEEK) – …

Everything Is Connected in the Digital Home of the Future

June 11th, 2010 | No Comments

Smart TVs, wall-size HD monitors, remote control over every aspect of a household, Yahoo’s Widget TV platform& these were only a few of the futuristic products shown June 9 and 10 at the Connections 2010 Digital Living Conference Showcase, held at the Santa Clara (Calif.) Convention Center. The conference not only showed products we’ll all be using in our homes within the next few years, but it also featured key innovators from companies such as Intel, Sony Pictures, Verizon Communications, Samsung, Roxio, Cisco Systems and numerous others discussing the digital future of our culture. Check out our slide show on the highlights. (All photos by Chris Preimesberger, eWEEK) – …

Maker Faire 2010 Brings Out Whimsy and Scientific Creativity

May 28th, 2010 | No Comments

The fifth annual Maker Faire was one of the most unusual science-related or non-science-related conferences we’ve ever attended. Staged by O’Reilly Media at the county fairgrounds in San Mateo, Calif., on May 22 and 23, the homespun event attracted a whopping 80,000 people, many simply curious to see unusual ideas being made real. With a huge national interest in getting off the gasoline standard, much of the emphasis was on alternative transportation and the ideas came from Detroit and beyond. "It’s one part crafts festival, one part Renaissance Faire and three parts giant flaming robots," Christina Wodtke, general manager of social networking at MySpace, told the San Francisco Chronicle. The following slide show features a few of the many highlights. (All photos by Chris Preimesberger, eWEEK) – …

How Blue Coat Systems Brings Visibility Security to Enterprise WANs

March 22nd, 2010 | No Comments

Blue Coat Systems executive Chris Webber explains to eWEEK Senior Writer Chris Preimesberger why his company leads the worldwide content security gateway appliance market for the 12th consecutive quarter in Q4 2009, according to the latest market report from Infonetics Research. Webber describes how his company’s appliance — which is available as either a physical machine for the data center or as software for an existing server — optimizes virtual machines over wide-area networks to move business data as fast as workloads require. Thanks to increased efficiencies, WAN optimization leads to substantial corporate savings in several areas, including power and cooling in the data center, staff time, capital equipment costs, and others.
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Big Enterprise IT News in 2009

December 8th, 2009 | No Comments

The recession drove much of the tech news this year, but cloud computing, virtualization and storage were among the bright spots.
– The recession case a long shadow on the tech landscape in 2009, but there were some bright spots.
eWEEK Senior Writer Chris Preimesberger said virtualization technology is growing because of the demands for efficiency and for computing in the cloud.
Senior Editor Jeff Burt agrees. Â“The recession h…

10 Things You Should Know Before VMs Take Over Your Data Center

October 16th, 2009 | No Comments

The tech equivalent of urban sprawl is virtual machine sprawl. As cloud computing begins to get a real, day-to-day foothold in enterprise IT systems, ad hoc cloud services are being deployed more and more frequently for short-term results. Many times these are used by employees without company sanction to get a short-term result, and the services are kept around longer than is necessary. Without a comprehensive strategy or formal program in place and without anyone having a handle on what exactly is going on or where corporate data resides, this can lead to big problems. In this slide show, Accenture’s Chief Technology Architect, Paul Daugherty, shows how this sprawl takes root and what a CIO or data center managers can do to ward off these potential problems.By Chris Preimesberger
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HP TouchSmart Laptops, Desktops Sport Windows 7, Touch Screens

October 13th, 2009 | No Comments

Hewlett-Packard is getting more touchy by the day about how it wants computer users to interact with its new machines. Thanks to hot-selling devices like the iPhone, iTouch and others, people are getting more accustomed to using touch technology in both home and business environments. So HP has responded: The giant hardware and software manufacturer on Oct. 13 introduced its 2010 lineup of touch-screen laptop and desktop computers that run Windows 7. Several of them will become available Oct. 22, the same day the consumer version of Microsoft’s latest OS version is launched.

The new devices include some cool mostly home-oriented applications such as Pandora (customized Web radio), Hulu (on-demand television), Netflix, Webcam software and the HP Music Store.

Following is a slideshow highlighting the most interesting new products in the 2010 HP Touch lineup. Enjoy!
(All Photos by Chris Preimesberger)
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10 Things You Need to Know Now About Data Deduplication

October 9th, 2009 | No Comments

The value of data deduplication storage technology that is good for everything inside-and even outside-an IT system cannot be overstated. As it eliminates redundant data from disk storage devices, it lowers storage space requirements, which in turn lowers data center power and cooling costs and lessens the amount of carbon dioxide produced to generate power to run the hardware. There is nothing bad about dedupe; no wonder it is the most asked-for feature in new storage system purchases.

Several companies have been providing this for several years, and FalconStor-mostly known as an OEM dedupe partner for EMC, Sun, IBM, Acer, Pillar Data Systems, 3PAR, Isilion, and several others #151has been been a busy producer. FalconStor’s brand of dedupe works cross-platform, and users say it is fast and efficient. Still, there is much to be learned by potential buyers about how it works and what benefits it brings. To this end, FalconStor Director of Marketing Fadi Albatal offers a list of key facts about dedupe that an IT manager should know before the buy is made.By Chris Preimesberger
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Walking Through 40 Years of Hard Disk Drive History

September 25th, 2009 | No Comments

IDEMA, the International Disk Drive and Materials Association, hosted its annual DISKCON conference in Santa Clara, Calif., Sept. 23 and 24. Included as a bonus on the show floor was a literal walk down memory lane for older engineers. This was a display of history-making hard drives, staged by longtime industry analyst and consultant Jim Porter. Many veteran engineers gazed at the artifacts with almost loving eyes: I spent about a year of my life working on that one, said one industry veteran. Another commented that another model was a bear–but we got the job done. No matter what, it took many millions of man-hours to develop these machines that we take so much for granted today. What follows is a chronological walk through history, remembering a number of the most important advances in HHD history. Perhaps you’ll see one you worked on yourself. Enjoy!By Chris Preimesberger
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A Gaunt Steve Jobs Hails New Features for iPods, iTunes

September 10th, 2009 | No Comments

Apple staged a music-themed event Sept. 9 in San Francisco featuring Grammy winner Norah Jones to introduce several new features for its iPod devices and its iTunes App Store. But the most important news was that CEO/co-founder Steve Jobs was healthy enough following his March liver transplant to emcee the event at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. It was Jobs’ first public appearance in 11 months. Here are some of the highlights.By Chris Preimesberger
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