Chris Preimesberger

Cisco Systems, like other older, more established IT vendors who are treading financial water lately, turned in its Q2 2017 earnings and beat Wall Street expectations–just barely. But it also had some bad news: The company also reported that it will have to trim an additional 1,100 employees as part of an extended restructuring plan. […]

Infiswift, a relatively new enterprise Internet of Things (IoT) platform provider, wants to plow the field as a leader of new-gen farming in the IoT age. The San Francisco-based company, which uses a lower-case “i” in its name—except for at the beginning of sentences—on May 16 announced the availability of a new version of its […]

MarkLogic, the NoSQL database that helped solve the online registration snafu of Healthcare.gov, the Affordable Care Act website, back in 2013-14 (remember that mess?), launched a major update of its product May 16 at its MarkLogic World user conference in Chicago. Not every enterprise needs a big, bulky relational database. MarkLogic develops and provides services […]

Seven Conversations You Need to Have With IT—and One to Avoid When is the last time you talked to your IT department outside of a red alert situation? Most people treat their IT department like an ER. When something breaks, you burst through the doors, get it fixed and don’t go back until the next […]

LAS VEGAS–Not only did Dell EMC pile on the new servers, storage arrays and all kinds of other new-gen data center equipment at its user convention last week at Dell EMC World, it also added a new set of services specifically aimed at helping customers “get” IoT and new cloud-based apps. Services generally don’t make […]

Hewlett-Packard Enterprise is making what appears to be the rather impertinent claim that it now has the fastest, most powerful single-memory computer in the world. However, there are two facts to realize here: a) this claim is very likely true; and b) this huge, huge computer is located in a mere single rack in Fort […]

Apple revealed May 15 that it has acquired an artificial intelligence and machine learning startup called Lattice.io, which is able to take so-called dark data and turn it into usable information. Financial information about the transaction was not released. News reports estimated the acquisition at between $175 million and $200 million. Menlo Park, Calif.-based Lattice.io […]

Hewlett Packard Enterprise is moving fast and furiously into in-memory computing, something upon which SAP has been trading for about eight years. HPE’s No. 1 such project is development of The Machine, an ambitious effort first announced in 2014 to build a computer with new technologies designed to handle the massive amounts of data that […]

TIBCO Software, the Palo Alto, Calif.-based enterprise data management company that does everything from data mining, to cloud services, to analytics, to graph databases, said May 15 that it will acquire Statistica, a provider of data science prep and presentation software. Terms of the transaction were not released. The acquisition will bolster TIBCO’s analytics product […]

11 Simple Yet Important Tips to Secure AWS Deployments With cloud security constantly improving and the volume of data growing exponentially, companies of all sizes are increasingly migrating applications and workloads to the cloud. In fact, Gartner Research recently predicted that the worldwide public cloud services market will grow from $209 billion in 2016 to […]