Chris Preimesberger

Intel, the world’s largest computer processor maker, isn’t particularly known as a global leader in shipping solid-state flash storage disks. That’s always been market territory Samsung, WD SanDisk, Micron and Toshiba have owned. But markets are changing, as they tend to do everywhere. DRAMeXchange, a division of global market analyst TrendForce, reported May 25 that […]

As the IoT economy begins to take shape, the security of all those new devices that will be collecting and shipping data to servers in the cloud is becoming a huge product-making focus for companies new and old. Basically, each new device in the field becomes an additional attack surface for hackers, so therein lies […]

Cloud-based services provider Rackspace revealed May 25 that it is acquiring enterprise application management software maker TriCore Solutions, which owns particular expertise in enterprise resource planning (ERP) solutions from Oracle and SAP. Financial details were not disclosed, although San Antonio-based Rackspace said the transaction is the largest in its history. The deal comes less than a year […]

Nine Design, Implementation Factors for Modern Enterprise Storage Enterprises that want to stay ahead of the curve now require data storage that delivers high performance, scalability and always-on availability in order to keep up with increasing data-movement speed demands. Not only that, in the current hyper-connected, data-driven world, organizations must overcome the challenges associated with […]

There are those who believe that innovation through native applications—those mostly on mobile devices and providing services like Uber and Airbnb—is going to lead the development path to the IT of the future. And they might be right. But for those who believe that APIs (application programming interfaces) are what’s going to dominate the brave […]

When it comes to the notion of citizen software development, sometimes described as “low-code,” a former division of Intuit, Quick Base, has been a real pioneer. At its Empower 2017 conference May 23, the company introduced a couple of key new capabilities to its application-building package, a platform that enables line-of-business employees at a company […]

Top 10 Tips on How to Avoid Damage From Insider Threats Insider threats to enterprise IT systems are the top worry for many CISOs. The perfect recipe for insider cyber-crime combines financial stress with easy access to corporate data and a host of online black market outlets ready to turn information into cash. To effectively […]

We read frequently about “things” as a service: software, storage, networking, security, rides, hotels and others. Just about everything in the world is, or is potentially subject to, becoming a subscription service.  Just ask Zuora, which has dubbed the future as being dominated by the “subscription economy.” So here’s a new one about which we […]

A new IT community resource, the Open19 Foundation, was born May 23 at a special event in Milpitas, Calif., on the shoulders of founding members Flex, GE Digital, Hewlett-Packard Enterprise, LinkedIn and Vapor IO. The Open19 Foundation aims to create new-generation, project-based open hardware and software solutions for the data center industry. One of the […]

Citrix has become the latest brand-name IT provider to put a major investment into adding analytics services as an option inside its legion of products. At its Citrix Synergy 2017 conference in Orlando, Fla., the company May 23 introduced Citrix Analytics, what it calls “a new, holistic security and behavior-analytics offering” that expands the capabilities […]