Chris Preimesberger

We’ve been hearing about how the new IT world eventually will be powered by a few new economies: 1) the application economy; 2) the internet of things economy; and/or 3) the API (application programming interface) economy. No one of them will be dominant; they’re all relevant because they rely upon each other to carry out […]

The U.S. Department of Labor on Jan. 18 filed a lawsuit contending that Oracle, one of the world’s largest IT product and services providers, has made a practice of paying white men more than other men and women and for unfairly favoring Asian workers when recruiting and hiring for technical positions. The DoL also filed […]

10 Advantages to Building Enterprise Applications with Microservices Microservices, single-purpose applications that can be assembled to build large-scale software systems, will be an important tool that enterprises use to modernize their application portfolios. They Promote Big Data Best Practices Microservices naturally fit within a data pipeline-oriented architecture, which aligns with the way big data should […]

It’s interesting to see where Hewlett-Packard Enterprise is lining up its priorities for 2017 and beyond. Four months ago, the iconic Silicon Valley corporation revealed that it is spinning off its software division in a merger with Micro Focus to create a significant new entity in the software development world and make Micro Focus a […]

Chipmaker Qualcomm, which provides the electronic brains for Android smartphones around the world, ended 2016 with legal trouble in the Far East and is starting out 2017 with equally serious legal issues in the U.S. Iroincally, none of this litigation has anything to do with the processors themselves. The U.S. Federal Trade Commission Jan. 17 […]

Oracle may have been late to the cloud party six or seven years ago, but it’s apparently looking at other cloud competitors in the rear-view mirror when it comes to global expansion. At its CloudWorld conference in New York City, the giant IT conglomerate on Jan. 17 announced plans to bring three new global regions […]

Maintaining a Unified Company Culture in the Remote-Worker Era Companies today are searching for new ways to maintain some semblance of a corporate culture when they employ many remote workers or have dispersed offices around the world. Focus on Face-to-Face Communication It might seem easier to make a phone call, but face-to-face communication pays off. […]

We’re seeing innovation being stepped up in just about every part of the IT industry–enterprise and consumer alike. Applications, chips, servers, storage, networks, connected devices and security (although we’re still a long way from solving most of the biggest problems) have seen major improvements. Even batteries, which were innovation-agnostic for decades, are being improved on […]

In the past two Black Fridays after Thanksgiving, gift-buyers spent more money on online than they did walking into stores to do it. In addition, the National Retail Federation announced Jan. 13 that while overall U.S. holiday retail sales hit a record $658 billion in 2016, non-store and online sales increased to more than $122 […]

Purpose-built servers, applications, mobile devices, networks—even uninterruptible backup power supplies—are commonplace in the IT business. But it isn’t often that one hears about genre-specific storage. Data is data, storage is storage, no matter what the use case. Right? Perhaps, but IBM is thinking along different lines. On Jan. 12, Big Blue launched new, all-flash storage […]

Ever since the smartphone and tablet elbowed their ways into our daily lives in the first years of this new century, the sales of personal computers—desktop and laptop—have subsequently leveled off and recently even slipped backward. One can certainly contend that a smartphone is merely a smaller PC that fits into a pocket. One also […]

7 Reasons Why Containers are a Natural Fit for DevOps Teams Here are seven reasons why container technology works well with DevOps environments, complementing their focus on rapid application development and agile IT. Containers Boost Data and Application Security One of the key benefits of containers is their ability to isolate application code and even […]