Chris Preimesberger

Intel revealed March 13 that it figuratively will write a check with a lot of zeroes, $15,300,000,000 ($15.3 billion, for short), to acquire autonomous vehicle-software maker Mobileye. That’s putting a company’s money where its risks are. The transaction immediately gives Intel a strong new position in the market for autonomous vehicle IT while at the […]

In an industry moment when some young storage vendors are going belly-up (Violin Memory, Coraid, Nirvanex) and most others simply aren’t making any money, Excelero Storage has boldly stepped forward out of stealth mode and planted a new stake in the ground. The Santa Clara, Calif.-based startup, which develops software-defined block storage for data center […]

New Q4 2016 data from Synergy Research Group released Maarch 10 indicates that the enterprise SaaS (software as a service) market grew a whopping 32 percent year over year to nearly $13 billion in quarterly revenues, with ERP and collaboration being the highest growth segments. For the third successive quarter, Microsoft was the clear leader […]

China’s Alibaba Cloud and Intel on March 9 unveiled a pilot program to build a cloud-based FPGA (field programmable gate array) acceleration service. The goal of the project is to enable cloud-services customers to have virtual access to a large set of compute resources to help them manage business, scientific and enterprise data application workloads […]

SAN FRANCISCO—Google is bound and determined to make it as ridiculously easy as possible to buy enterprise compute processing in its cloud. And potential customers, who might be comparing Google Cloud Platform against Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure, certainly aren’t going to say no to that approach. The huge search, cloud services and general […]

SAN FRANCISCO–Google and cloud storage/collaboration tools provider Box have come to an agreement to co-develop features for a new messaging app in Google Hangouts built for workgroups in GSuite. The announcement was made March 9 at Google Cloud Next at Moscone West. The project will integrate Box’s secure content management platform directly into Google’s own […]

SANTA CLARA, Calif.—A little-known startup called TidalScale may well have come up with the biggest advance in servers since VMware’s virtualization of the Intel IA-32 platform 18 years ago. That is, of course, if it all works as the company says it does. And since they already have several units in daily production whose owners […]

SANTA CLARA, Calif. — Facebook, known inside the business for its single-app data centers, is in the process of updating those facilities with its own, self-designed server hardware so it can continue to keep up with the waterfall of new content its 1.8 billion users create each day. On March 8, Day 1 of the […]

How to Deal With Legal, Compliance Issues in Office 365 Migrations Microsoft’s Office 365 cloud-based productivity suite is gaining rapid adoption among enterprises, with more than 60 million commercial customers. Analysts are indicating 50 percent quarter-over-quarter growth for the foreseeable future. However, organizations that are currently migrating to Office 365, or preparing to do so, […]

Big data processing optimization provider Pepperdata said March 7 that it is expanding its product portfolio with a DevOps tool that offers Hadoop and Spark developers with easy-to-understand recommendations for improving job performance. Application Profiler, based on the colorfully named open source project Dr. Elephant, is currently available in early access and will be generally available in the […]

Hewlett-Packard Enterprise, which relies heavily on its data storage and management businesses for a stable financial bottom line, apparently now has the all-flash storage intellectual property it needs to maintain parity with the Pure Storages, Dell EMCs and IBMs of the world. HPE revealed March 7 that it has acquired Nimble Storage for $1 billion […]

Okta, an independent provider of identity and device management for enterprises, revealed March 6 that it has acquired Stormpath, a provider of identity management for applications and APIs. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. The Stormpath team, including co-founders Alex Salazar and Les Hazlewood, will join Okta to further accelerate the growth of its […]