Chris Preimesberger

Networking hardware maker Cisco Systems, which has been looking for new markets for the past couple of years, released its latest earnings report after the closing bell Nov. 16 and showed profitability, but its guidance for next quarter is worrying Wall Street. The San Jose, Calif.-based IT giant posted earnings of 61 cents per share, […]

Snapchat, the social-network messaging app that turned down an offer three years ago from Facebook to be acquired for $3 billion, has filed for an initial public offering, Reuters reported Nov. 15. The wire service said Snapchat, which has about 100 million users worldwide, could go public as soon as March and be valued at […]

How to Build a Threat Hunting Team to Bolster Cyber-Security Operations Building an enterprise cyber-security team that is effective in threat-hunting can help to improve a network’s defense and free up other security operators. Building: It Starts with IT Operations Personnel The operations and/or SOC personnel ensure that the IT assets are well-secured under both […]

CA Technologies, a seasoned IT products and services provider that has completed a major modernization transformation in only the last few years, made several announcements Nov. 16 at its CA World conference in Las Vegas. Announcement No. 1 is the release of CA Agile Central, a new software-as-a-service platform that the company calls the only […]

Boston-based GSX Solutions, which makes monitoring and reporting software for on-premises and cloud unified communications, on Nov. 15 launched its new GSX Gizmo web interface, which features full Office 365 support. Microsoft has made a major comeback in the cloud services business, led by its Office 365 franchise, which is selling like gangbusters as users […]

You may just be getting comfortable with a 4G smartphone, but at this point you’d also better start thinking about a new-gen 5G unit, because they’re on the drawing boards. Actually, the next generation of mobile IT is a few years away, because the wireless industry is still trying to reach agreement on standards, device […]

GE, spending a ton of marketing dollars in repositioning itself as a new-gen industrial IoT infrastructure provider, made a series of announcements Nov. 15 at its Minds + Machines conference in San Francisco. These include the introduction of an enhanced version of its analytics-based cloud platform, Predix. The huge conglomerate also unveiled a phalanx of […]

Online shoppers would much rather interact with a chatbot and go through a purchase process without talking to a human being—unless it’s absolutely necessary.We know this because an industry survey released Nov. 14 indicates that chat has surpassed phone and email as the most popular way for consumers to interact with retailers. The study, based […]

Once upon a time, sales were simply a matter of putting the best product out there and allowing it to sell itself. Selling is now all about spoiling the customer tremendously first. In fact, as more and more sales move online, if a salesperson does not make a transaction cushy and attractive enough online for […]

Amazon on Nov. 14 announced its 53rd price reduction in its web services business. The company’s Elastic Compute (EC2) team will adjust pricing downward beginning Dec. 1, “just in time to make your holiday season just a little bit more cheerful,” evangelist Jeff Barr wrote in his corporate blog. “Our engineering investments, coupled with our […]

Facebook is in the process of enabling groups of people, and not necessarily “friends” who know each other, to interact around specific topics in real time on the social network. The app is called Rooms, same as a standalone app it attempted two years ago but then pulled back right after it bought WhatsApp for […]

Schneider Electric, which provides enterprise energy management and automation for an international set of customers, isn’t known all that well for its security products. But security is not only software, and Schneider is pretty efficient at making and servicing IT hardware for environmental security purposes. The company on Nov. 10 introduced NetBotz 250, a rackmount […]