Chris Preimesberger

IBM and Cisco Systems have combined their formidable forces to create a set of new industry solutions for VersaStack, their jointly-developed converged data center infrastructure package. The expanded offerings will enable clients to build their own hybrid cloud solutions, migrate applications and data between on-premises and cloud resources and enable end-to-end data management. Ostensibly, this is […]

Hewlett Packard Enterprise has redesigned its tech services division to focus specifically on that ubiquitous trend: digital transformation of enterprise IT shops. As of March 2, the Palo Alto, Calif.-based IT giant is calling this team Pointnext. It will utilize the expertise of more than 25,000 specialists in 80 countries covering 30 languages and spanning […]

10 Steps to Building a New-Gen, Cloud-Focused Enterprise In 2007 and 2008, many enterprises would never have considered putting their most precious and valuable applications into an entity that wasn’t located on-site. Now, in early 2017, companies aren’t looking back; they’re already doing test and dev, HR, accounting, marketing and dozens of other functions inside […]

Managed-cloud provisioner 2nd Watch has landed $19 million in Series D funding led by Delta-v Capital. Participation in the round came from previous investors Madrona Venture Group, Columbia Capital and Top Tier Capital Partners. The new cash influx will be used to meet customer demand for 2nd Watch’s managed cloud services and also for scaling […]

A single mistyped server command during a routine debugging of its billing system in Amazon Web Services’ northern Virginia data center turned out to be the cause of a huge outage Feb. 28 that stilled an estimated 150,000 websites and/or business services for about half the day. The problems caused websites and apps to become completely unavailable, while others […]

Persistent Systems has announced an agreement with the USAA insurance and financial services company for development rights to patented security intellectual property currently owned by USAA for use in financial services. Persistent builds customized software for enterprises and software product companies so they can move to new levels in the rampant digital transformation trend. San […]

Eight IT Trends Already Shaping Global Business in 2017 It’s already clear which IT trends are shaping global business this year. From augmented reality to IoT to cloud computing, here are eight of the top trends. Reconfiguring the Enterprise for the 21st Century Outside-in strategies continue to be a major player in defining how enterprises […]

Avanade, which specializes in deploying cloud services on Microsoft Azure, has acquired Infusion, a global software engineering, design and digital strategy firm that provides digital business transformation for the enterprise based on Microsoft expertise. The acquisition expands Seattle-based Avanade’s ability to enable digital transformation services. Terms of the transaction, announced Feb. 28, were not disclosed. […]

Oracle, doing everything in its power to transition its on-premises customers–which comprise the vast majority of them–into buying cloud services, has moved its physical Exadata analytics server into the Oracle Cloud.   Oracle users now have a couple of other options to deploy Oracle Exadata Cloud Machine, which handles big data workloads at scale off-premises. […]

If you live in Australia or New Zealand, you now have a few ways to order a Domino’s pizza using a smartphone: by conventional person-to-person by voice, by chat conversation or by conversing with a virtual-assistant bot. Take your pick. The bot might not be able to converse about traffic conditions that might affect delivery […]

It’s probably not going to affect her regular bill-paying routine, but Yahoo will be withholding a lot of bonus money–possibly as much as $2 million–from CEO Marissa Mayer because of her faulty supervision of two major security breaches in the last three years. Those two well-chronicled security lapses exposed the personal information of more than […]

If your company is running Slack, BitBucket, SendGrid or any number of other apps today that you normally take for granted but suddenly cannot access, the answer has come to the fore. The world’s largest and busiest cloud infrastructure provider, Amazon Web Services, was hit by a widespread service interruption Feb. 28 at its northern […]