Chris Preimesberger

Facebook, itself built on layers of open source code and hardware blueprints, has made it a point to serve as a wellspring of sorts for the open source community–even before it came into money from its IPO in 2012. The social network demonstrated this commitment once again April 18 on Day 1 of its F8 […]

Lots of people don’t know this, but ride-hailing app maker Uber has a separate business-related service called, plainly enough, Uber for Business. It may have been a bit under the radar to the mainstream public for the last couple of years, but about 65,000 organizations globally–including Goldman Sachs, Zillow Group, Dell EMC, Wunderman and AdRoll—currently […]

Reltio, an enterprise applications and data management provider, revealed April 18 that it has banked $40 million in new venture capital. The Redwood City, Calif.-based startup, founded in 2011 by the team that created Informatica’s master data management franchise more than a decade ago, had its funding round led by global venture capital firm New […]

How Internet of Things Will Shape Intelligent Enterprises People are more than ready for the internet of things because they’ve been reading about its possibilities for a few years. They are beginning to buy smart connected products, such as thermostats, washing machines and refrigerators. Similarly, the IoT is quickly impacting and reshaping the enterprise landscape, […]

Generally, when people think about the most influential social networks, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and Flixter might come to mind. Others, such as Instagram, Snapchat, YouTube and maybe Google+ are often considered second tier. However, Instagram, which Facebook bought in 2012 for $1 billion, is starting to make new headway into this hierarchy of networks by […]

Hewlett-Packard Enterprise, in a deal that came to fruition months ahead of its original schedule, on April 17 completed its $1 billion acquisition of new-gen flash storage maker Nimble. The deal ended up as being worth $12.50 per stock share. HPE, which had said it would finish the acquisition in Q3 2017, ostensibly has the […]

IBM Selects New Class of 11 IBM Fellows, the Highest Honor It Bestows IBM on April 13 named 11 new IBM Fellows, the company’s highest technical honor. The new Fellows are being celebrated for leading innovative work in cognitive computing, cloud, security and design. The IBM Fellow honor is conferred to IBMers in recognition of […]

Infrastructure performance management software maker Virtual Instruments has added improvements to its Load DynamiX Enterprise storage performance validation package, which enables storage admins to validate and optimize their systems. Load DynamiX Enterprise 5.3, released April 12, enables users to more intelligently deploy storage infrastructure for their hybrid data centers, the company said. It optimizes the […]

LinkedIn, after some well-documented fits and starts in the social business networking world in its formative stages a decade ago, was acquired by Microsoft last June, has steadied itself and has resumed its position as arguably the most popular business-oriented social network in the business. Now it’s innovating upon its own previous innovation, although it’s […]

How to Get the Most Out of Your SD-WAN Deployment Everything in IT seems to trend toward “software-defined,” and this includes local networks. From all indications, software-defined wide-area networks, or SD-WANs, are gaining traction among enterprises. According to a recent study, 58.5 percent of enterprises across the globe plan to adopt SD-WAN within the next […]