Chris Preimesberger

LAS VEGAS—A blockchain database, a universal digital ledger of record that enables both security and transparency for Bitcoin financial transactions, has been a mystery to many people for a few years. IBM wants to be the first household-name company to take the mystery part out of it and make it a mainstay of its fast-developing […]

11 Ways Taxpayers Can Keep Themselves Safe From Scams, Identity Theft Tax time is like Christmas for cyber-criminals. Their potential victims are busily pulling together sensitive financial information from all kinds of online sources, and many are filing using one of the half-dozen or so web-based tax preparation services or electronic state or federal portals. […]

FOLSOM, Calif. — Back in July 2015, Intel and Micron held a joint press event at the Exploratorium on the San Francisco waterfront. The news was the introduction of the two companies’ new “baby” to the world: 3D XPoint (pronounced 3D Crosspoint), the first completely new memory form factor since Toshiba brought NAND flash to […]

Storage systems maker Barracuda Networks on March 16 released new backup functionality for VMware virtual machines (LiveBoot 2.0) alongside a similar feature for Microsoft Hyper-V (Cloud LiveBoot). Both products are designed to get systems quickly back online and running while additional fixes are being implemented, the company said. Barracuda LiveBoot 2.0 also offers a backup […]

Scriptr.io, one of the earliest companies to develop a managed service and enterprise IoT application marketplace, revealed March 16 that has closed the second and final round of the $5 million Series A funding led by Middle East Venture Partners (MEVP). The closing includes the participation of San Francisco-based Endeavor Catalyst and Berytech Fund (BFII). […]

Zoomdata, developers of a visual analytics platform for big data, has launched a new smart connector for Hewlett-Packard Enterprise’s Vertica Advanced Analytics database for both cloud-based an on-premises deployments. Zoomdata is an open-standards platform that provides visual analytics solutions for big data workloads in a matter of seconds. Its new-gen architecture is capable of rendering […]

Zuora, a fast-growing software-as-a-service (SaaS) provider that offers cloud-based billing, recurring revenue, payments and billing solutions, on March 15 released a new developer center and added 30 new applications to its Connect platform.The Connect marketplace now totals about 100 apps created specifically for subscription businesses, including quoting, financial operations, data ingestion, e-signatures and ERP integrations. […]

A 2017 Strategy Playbook for Data Center Managers Doing business requires strategy, and strategy requires enterprise management to make the right decisions and follow up with implementations. For example: It’s almost time to launch the project on which the company has been working so hard. Your data center is in place and ready to handle […]

UN Global Pulse, a United Nations initiative seeking innovation in big data projects, and IT data storage maker Western Digital have shaken hands on a project to launch a competition called the Data for Climate Action challenge. Data for Climate Action is an open innovation challenge to use data science and big data from the […]

VMware, which bet $1.54 billion on acquiring AirWatch three years ago, has been busy ever since putting that company’s intellectual property to work in new and different ways. The world’s largest virtualization software provider on March 14 unveiled updates to its Workspace ONE product that cram into that platform such functions as application and access […]

CEO Marissa Mayer may be on her way out of the Yahoo captain’s chair, but she won’t necessarily need to go knocking on doors looking for a new job. She’ll have a smidgen of cash in the bank to help keep her family clothed, fed and housed for a while. In fact, the family probably […]

Coresystems wants to do for on-demand field service employment what Uber has done for the ride-hailing business: allow qualified workers to participate in projects where and when they choose to do so. As a result, the 10-year-old web-services provider has introduced something called the Project Management Module, a major new addition to its original field-service […]