Chris Preimesberger

Seven Reasons Why Interconnection Is Better Than the Public Internet As is the case with all technologies, IT solutions and offerings of all kinds—both on-premises and cloud-based—continue to evolve. We’ve observed cloud services grow from singular private or public cloud offerings into multicloud solutions facilitated by direct interconnections. Interconnections, offered by a handful of the […]

New-gen wireless networking provider Mist on April 4 unveiled a new asset visibility service available that can be deployed over its wireless platform. This is a tool that could become a valuable resource in the burgeoning greenfield of the IoT. The new service, an extension of the company’s virtual Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) offering, enables […]

Who would have thought this only a few years ago? Cloud computing services have become so granular that users are able to select the type of processor they want to run for a particular workload. IBM on April 5 announced that it will make the Nvidia’s Tesla P100 graphics processing unit (GPU) accelerator available in […]

Clarizen, an early entry 12 years ago into the collaborative work management market, on April 4 augmented its feature set to make the platform more efficient to use among enterprise team members. The spring 2017 upgrade to Clarizen’s current cloud-based service offering includes a reporting tool that makes it quick and easy to create company-branded […]

SAN FRANCISCO — Appian, a BPM (business process management) unicorn that doesn’t care that it’s a unicorn, is staging its ecosystem conference this week at the Hyatt Regency, talking about moving its customers to the cloud and releasing a new version of its cloud platform software. In case you’re not familiar, the business version of […]

DigitalOcean, which specializes in providing cloud services for software developers, launched a free-of-charge monitoring service April 4 that provides insight into the resource utilization and operational health of every droplet, or cloud server. The monitoring service measures the performance of each droplet’s CPU (central processing unit), its memory, disk utilization, disk reads and writes, network […]

Seven Rules for Inclusion in the CSO’s Security Playbook As conventional cyber-security practices continue to fall behind the sophistication of bad actors, enterprise chief security officers are scrambling to keep up. Organizations spent about $75 billion in the U.S. last year on security products and services, representing some 11 percent of total dollars spent on […]

At a moment when other young storage providers are falling off the table and/or mired in red ink, new-gen secondary storage provider Cohesity finds itself $90 million richer thanks to some influential venture capital supporters. The Santa Clara, Calif. startup on April 4 announced its largest funding round to date, raising $90 million in a […]

Some major tech and education players are getting together to help solve one of the more serious problems of the internet age: the poisoning of legitimate news streams with false or misleading information. Fundamentally, they are trying to educate the reading public about how to recognize fake news when they see it and learn to […]

The most impactful IT trend thus far in 2017 is a phenomenon called digital transformation, which is really a marketing term for faster digital transportation. Using simpler words, this is all about moving more and more data safely at faster and faster speeds. It turns out that lots of enterprises need help with this, thanks […]

Startup Dexter, which is carving out a name for itself as a provider of a do-it-yourself chatbot management/development platform for brands and agencies, has launched its platform out of closed beta run into general availability. The company made the announcement at the recent SXSW Interactive 2017 in Austin, Texas. Using the platform, marketers can build […]

Sometime later in Q2 2017, owners of the new Samsung Galaxy 8 smartphone will be able to use it as a virtual desktop running on the Citrix platform if they so choose. Samsung and Citrix announced March 30 at a press event in New York that they are connecting the new Samsung DeX dock to […]