Chris Preimesberger

The world may not be fully saturated with iPhones after all, even though there are 1.2 billion of them out there in people’s pockets–one for every seven people on the planet–and that Apple sold 41 million more of them in the last three months. Not that the world’s richest company was overly worried about anything, […]

Cohesity isn’t messing around with its platform updates. Right on the heels of the 4.0 version of its Orion storage software announced in April comes the next new version, a mere four months later. New ideas, DevOps, rapid iteration and testing appear to be well entrenched in that shop. Cohesity, one of the true pioneers […]

As the overall volume of data from machines and human-operated devices–mostly from machines–continues to zoom up like an F-18 off an aircraft carrier, IT systems sometimes find themselves straining to keep that data moving from place to place at internet speed. All those moving bits are becoming heavy loads for systems old and new. Server […]

A number of the early commercial use cases for cloud-based artificial intelligence are coming to the fore in the sales and marketing world. They all follow the Google and Facebook example: Learn as much as you can about your customers and potential customers, give them as many buying choices and opportunities as possible, and then […]

Sometimes less works better than more when it comes to feature sets for software services, especially the ones people use on a daily basis. Take conference calls, for instance. It can be a royal pain to dial a 10-digit number, add another lengthy code number, and then punch in a participant or organizer code as […]

CX and UX—customer experience and user experience—are acronyms for hot software functions that enterprises are scrambling to add into their systems in 2017. One can imagine that when Qualtrics sees those two terms, it just smiles. That’s because it’s been measuring and quantifying customer experience for 15 years and helped invent the term. The Provo, […]

Intel squarely beat the so-called Street July 27 when it brought in Q2 2017 revenue of $14.76 billion versus $14.41 billion expected by Thomson Reuters analysts. As a result, the stock took a 4 percent jump in after-the-bell trading on the positive news. Earning per share amounted to 72 cents against 68 cents in EPS […]

Amazon’s second-quarter earnings were a surprising dud July 27, causing some alarmed investors to sell off their shares as the stock price took a hit. The world’s largest online marketplace, which went public 20 years ago, fell way short of Wall Street analysts’ expectations in its Q2 2017 report, missing profit forecasts by more than […]

Data protection and sync/share provider eFolder, which specializes in working with managed service providers, and Disaster Recovery-as-a-Service (DRaaS) provider Axcient revealed July 27 that they are merging. Financial details of the transaction were not disclosed. Neither privately owned company would say which one actually bought the other, but since the company will be headquartered at […]

Supercomputer maker Cray Inc. is focusing more of its corporate attention on improving data storage for ultra-high end computing systems. The Seattle-based company revealed July 26 that it has signed an agreement with Seagate creating a partnership around Seagate’s ClusterStor high-performance storage product line and spelling out how the two companies will collaborate on future ClusterStor […]