Chris Preimesberger

NAND flash storage maker Tegile Systems, which has rebranded itself as a provider of persistent-memory storage solutions for databases and containerized environments, on June 29 released its next-generation flagship flash storage platform. The Milpitas, Calif.-based company said its newest IntelliFlash HD enables enterprises to take advantage of non-volatile memory express (NVMe) without needing the system […]

A Look at How Tech IPO Class of 2014 Is Performing Now 2014 was a big year for tech initial public stock offerings. There were an astounding 273 IPOs in all—the most active period since 406 companies went public in 2000. Of those, 55 were technology companies—up 22 percent from 2013. Businesses such as Five9, […]

Artificial intelligence is not only moving into family rooms and kitchens (Alexa, Google), cars, enterprise applications and mobile devices. It’s also using the internet of things to move into the remote conferencing business. Boston-based Owl Labs has launched something called the Meeting Owl, a plug-and-play video conferencing product for collaborative teams. It features a 360° […]

Cloud software maker Nutanix on June 28 introduced a new operating system, Nutanix Calm, based on its hyperconverged infrastructure software that can unify public and private clouds under a common hybrid cloud computing architecture. The San Jose, Calif.-based company made the announcement at its .NEXT 2017 conference in Washington, D.C. While its products sound fairly […]

Turns out Cirba liked the name of its new product, Densify, so much that it is changing its corporate branding over to it. Hopefully some product manager will find a bonus in his/her paycheck, because it probably wasn’t in the job description to rename the company. The Toronto-based software company, which provides analytics for storage […]

Application management newcomer appOrbit (lower-case “a” is correct), started up by former IBM and VMware engineers, came out of stealth June 26 brandishing a new container-based platform that it claims can automate the modeling, delivery and management of enterprise software onto any modern infrastructure. The 3-year-old San Jose, Calif.-based startup says its runtime environment can […]

You may or may not remember a year-and-a-half ago when Cisco Systems shelled out $1.4 billion for relatively unknown Jasper Technologies, a small private company that built an IoT platform that makes it easier for enterprises to connect their products through the cloud. That was a serious investment, even in these days of multi-billion-dollar serious […]

Database automation software maker Datical has added an important new DevOps-type function to its specialized platform for database administrators. The company’s Deployment Monitoring Console, released June 27, is a new addition to the Datical DB platform that automatically monitors the status of every database deployment across an enterprise and reports back in real time to […]

There’s one important thing an IT manager needs to get straight before he or she invests good money in a new Cisco Unified Computing System alongside an IBM Cloud Object Storage deployment: That this isn’t primarily a cloud deployment at all (IBM BlueMix or any other cloud), but an on-premises system with only an option […]

If anybody doubts that Nutanix is steadily building its own IT market niche and ecosystem in the hyperconverged data center space, that doubt should be dispelled immediately, if not sooner. One after another, IT companies old and new have announced support and/or partnerships with the trendy datacenter operating system provider, before and following its highly […]