Chris Preimesberger

Intel technically “beat the Street” on its Q1 2017 earnings, but revenue guidance from the world’s largest process-maker appeared to be unsettling for investors, so its stock price took a 3 percent hit April 27. Revenue for the quarter came in at $14.8 billion, against the comparable year-ago figure of $13.8 billion. Analysts expected the […]

Thales Group, a longtime securer of virtualized systems and a provider of data protection to the financial services, manufacturing, government and technology sectors, revealed April 27 that it will acquire new-gen analytics provider Guavus for $215 million in cash. The acquisition is expected to close in Q3 2017. San Mateo, Calif.-based Guavus develops machine intelligent, […]

InHerSight.com’s Top 10 IT Companies for Women to Work For in 2017 Each year we read about “Fortune’s Best 100 Companies to Work For” in the United States. Google has been No. 1 for eight of the last 11 years; others like NetApp, SAS and Salesforce are regulars on that list. Now there’s a list […]

Ever wanted to ask Amazon’s Alexa for the newest menu items at your favorite restaurant? It’s now possible, if the restaurant uses omnichannel content management to publish its information where potential customers live. Along these lines, publishing system provider DNN Software April 26 released an assortment of new channels in Liquid Content, which serves as […]

The concept of a “serverless” application, as ethereal as it sounds, can be easily misunderstood—perhaps because the sound of it borders on fake news. “Obviously, ‘serverless’ doesn’t mean there are no servers anymore; it means you don’t have to worry about servers anymore,” IBM’s Michael Behrendt told eWEEK. Then perhaps we should call it “worryless” […]

Oracle is venturing into challenging waters by going head-to-head with industry leader Adobe and several others when it comes to CX, also known as “customer experience.” Of course, challenges in numerous markets haven’t scared off Oracle in the past. The database giant on April 26 launched its Oracle Content and Experience Cloud, a so-called “digital […]

IBM, feeling heavy pressure from a bevy of competitors in its quest to increase the monetization of its cloud services and storage capacity, is expanding the locations for running its cloud. The company on April 26 announced the opening of four new cloud data centers in the U.S.: two in Dallas, Texas and two in […]

Most of us know about Fox News chief Roger Ailes’ $40 million golden parachute in 2016, Bill O’Reilly’s $25 million parting-ways package a few weeks ago and United Airlines CEO Jeff Smisek’s huge going-away gift in 2015. Turns out those were all peanuts compared to Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer’s soon-to-come $100 million-plus out-the-door prize as […]

Ransomware Recovery 101: You’ve Been Hit, Now What Do You Do? Ransomware is coming to your neighborhood. Now a $1 billion-per-year industry, ransomware has quickly become one of IT and security pros’ biggest fears. According to a recent study by CyberEdge Group, more than 60 percent of organizations are likely to experience an attack. The […]

Rubrik, which wants all its customers to forget about the intricacies of IT data storage management so its automated processes can handle it, announced April 25 that its scale-out software for data protection of cloud-native applications now runs in AWS, Microsoft Azure or both. Rubrik has always been about new-gen hybrid storage systems comprised of […]