Chris Preimesberger

Top 8 Skills Recruiters Are Seeking in Software Engineers Capable software engineers remain in demand, but the skills companies need the most change from year to year. Here’s what companies are on the lookout for now. Product Engineers Successful product engineers think about solving problems that deliver the most value to the business. Engineers most […]

Production of Android and other smartphones for the global market continued to grow at a modest clip in 2016, but this wasn’t the case for Apple iOS phones. Researcher TrendForce reported Jan. 25 that global smartphone production volume for 2016 grew 4.7 percent annually to reach 1.36 billion units in total. Apple, on the other […]

Cisco Systems, the world’s largest IT networking provider that has been busy moving into new markets during the last several years, revealed Jan. 24 that it will acquire AppDynamics Inc., a privately held application intelligence software provider, for $3.7 billion in cash. San Francisco-based AppDynamics’ cloud application and business-monitoring platform enables large enterprises to improve […]

Collibra, which makes automated data governance software, has closed $50 million in Series C financing led by San Francisco-based ICONIQ Capital with participation from investment firm Battery Ventures and return backers Dawn Capital, Index Ventures and Newion Investments. This latest round of funding will enable Collibra to invest in new development, sales and marketing as […]

Oracle likes to talk about “engineering together” its formidable database, middleware and business applications software directly into its data center hardware. But it looks now as if it’s not going to be engineering anymore into the former Sun Microsystems chips and machines it has owned for the last six years. Oracle is in the process […]

Hewlett-Packard Enterprise bolstered its cloud-platform lineup Jan. 23 with the acquisition of San Jose, Calif.-based Cloud Cruiser, which makes software that meters and bills for customers’ consumption of IT. Terms of the transaction were not released. Cloud Cruiser’s utilization analytics application enables users to manage and optimize public, private and hybrid cloud usage and spending. […]

In the football world, there’s a penalty in the rule book called “piling on.” This occurs after a player with the ball has been tackled, is already on the ground and continues to be hit by other opposing players after the whistle has been blown. Smartphone processor-maker Qualcomm isn’t a football player, but it must […]

It’s one thing to coordinate, monitor and secure all of a company’s data streams to servers, cloud applications and storage in an enterprise IT system. It’s another thing to make that huge lake of raw data become easy and fast to access and process by employees who need the data “yesterday.” There are apps for […]

Telecommunications provider Avaya, spun out of AT&T in 2000 and which filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on Jan. 19, stands as yet another example of what can happen if a company doesn’t move quickly enough when a technology sea change engulfs it. Kodak didn’t make the move to digital fast enough. DEC and Sun […]

Why More Industries Will Implement Artificial Intelligence in 2017 Major industries including financial services, health care, telecommunications and education are using artificial intelligence to implement predictive analytics in applications that serve customers or leverage new business opportunities. Lack of In-House Data Experts an Issue Current employees who do have deep industry knowledge often don’t have […]

Virtual desktop infrastructure enthusiasts and naysayers alike need to gather around and hear what the whimsically-named but very IT-serious Nerdio is doing to make VDI great again: It’s streaming an entire enterprise set of IT apps using its VDI platform. The Chicago-based company, which has more than a decade of experience providing managed IT services, […]

A couple of old friends who worked at SonicWall together several years ago who had gone on to start up their own storage companies have decided to bring their companies together in order to produce more complete solutions for all of their customers. Data protection software developer StorageCraft Technology of Draper, Utah announced Jan. 19 […]