Chris Preimesberger

VoltDB, which makes an in-memory SQL database, on Feb. 1 launched a new version of its flagship product, VoltDB v7.0. VoltDB, which among other competitors claims to be the world’s fastest in-memory SQL database, said its v7.0 product can be deployed in both on-premise and in-cloud deployments. In-memory databases, while substantially more expensive than standard […]

Hewlett-Packard Inc. came out Jan. 31 with two new mobile thin clients that certainly look like any other laptop one can find at Best Buy or on any online retail site you can name. There’s a different twist this time, however: One of the two thin clients doesn’t come installed with Windows 10. We’ll explain. […]

Cisco Systems launched its TelePresence real-time enterprise video conferencing system back in October 2006. I remember that day well; I sat with CEO John Chambers during the demo and was impressed at the technology I was witnessing. After all, there were people in various countries around the world seemingly sitting at one table across from […]

In view of the recent rash of so-called “fake news” stories pouring into networks of all types, we have an observation: This is hardly new. The fact is, fake and otherwise manipulated news has been around as long as there has been written communication among people.But fake news in a specific way is advancing the […]

Dropbox dropped a slew of new features and application improvements into its product line Jan. 30, centered mainly around the trend for enterprises to organize themselves into project teams that report to division heads. Dropbox CEO Drew Houston also announced that the San Francisco-based company now has 500 million users and has surpassed a $1 […]

In a major competitive victory for the Big Board versus other exchanges, Snap Inc. reportedly plans to list its highly anticipated initial public offering on the New York Stock Exchange. Snap’s product, Snapchat, the social-network messaging app that turned down an offer four years ago from Facebook to be acquired for $3 billion, quietly filed […]

Email Security Threats to Watch Out for in 2017 Email breaches were big news during the 2016 presidential election, but it’s not just senior government officials who need to protect themselves from exposure. Phishing Phishing attacks impersonate a legitimate company or individual and attempt to steal people’s personal information or login credentials. Employees and high-level […]

Saturday, Jan. 28, is International Data Privacy Day, a project of the National Cyber Security Alliance. The idea is to draw attention to all the personal information you own, be sure you know where’s it all located and how secure it is (or isn’t), and to know what you’re doing when you download a new […]

Toshiba, which invented NAND flash memory in the late 1980s that is now being used in virtually all servers, smartphones and tablet PCs, is being forced to spin off a highly profitable section of its IT hardware business due to serious problems impacting its financial future. The Japan-based conglomerate revealed Jan. 27 that its flash […]

Intel, the world’s largest computer processor-maker and a foundational hardware provider for all of IT, was founded on July 18, 1968. In none of the subsequent 49 years has the chipmaker been more successful businesswise than 2016. The Santa Clara, Calif.-based corporation reported Q4 and full-year 2016 revenue on Jan. 26, and there were new […]

Visual analytics provider Qlik, which changes basic Excel data into visualizations to make the information more understandable, on Jan. 24 launched a cloud-based version of the service for corporate teams and small and medium-sized businesses. Qlik Sense Cloud Business is software-as-a-service aimed at SMBs, groups and teams to create, manage and share analytics and corresponding […]

Samsung, which literally had to put out a number of fires last year when its Galaxy Note 7 phone batteries kept getting too hot and burning up, isn’t the only major IT device maker that’s been having trouble with too-hot-to-handle batteries. Hewlett-Packard Inc., which designs and manufactures laptop, notebooks and workstation PCs, has determined that […]