Chris Preimesberger

LAS VEGAS–IBM is always looking at new markets to enter, but the most important one it sees right now is one you won’t find the analysts or investors discussing. Big Blue calls it the “making better business decisions” market. That may sound like an amorphous marketing term, but IBM considers it real enough to have […]

LAS VEGAS–IBM doesn’t appear to be letting that smarty pants Watson take a day off. Every time you look up, Big Blue has a new use case assignment for its prized cloud-based analytics franchise. This time IBM is deploying Watson as a new cognitive-computing assistant to help IT professionals manage and protect networks of smartphones, […]

LAS VEGAS–While moving apps and services to one cloud from a data center can be a major project for a lot of older enterprises, moving to more than one can be an almost overwhelming concept. At its Interconnect 2017 event here at Mandalay Bay, which continues through Wednesday, IBM is showing through real-world examples how […]

LAS VEGAS–IBM and Veritas Technologies on March 20 revealed a collaboration designed to bring new cloud-based object storage and data-management options to enterprises that may or may not already have installations of the two companies’ products in their hybrid cloud systems. Another result of the deal is that IBM will be making Veritas’ best-selling NetBackup […]

LAS VEGAS—A blockchain database, a universal digital ledger of record that enables both security and transparency for Bitcoin financial transactions, has been a mystery to many people for a few years. IBM wants to be the first household-name company to take the mystery part out of it and make it a mainstay of its fast-developing […]

11 Ways Taxpayers Can Keep Themselves Safe From Scams, Identity Theft Tax time is like Christmas for cyber-criminals. Their potential victims are busily pulling together sensitive financial information from all kinds of online sources, and many are filing using one of the half-dozen or so web-based tax preparation services or electronic state or federal portals. […]

FOLSOM, Calif. — Back in July 2015, Intel and Micron held a joint press event at the Exploratorium on the San Francisco waterfront. The news was the introduction of the two companies’ new “baby” to the world: 3D XPoint (pronounced 3D Crosspoint), the first completely new memory form factor since Toshiba brought NAND flash to […]

Storage systems maker Barracuda Networks on March 16 released new backup functionality for VMware virtual machines (LiveBoot 2.0) alongside a similar feature for Microsoft Hyper-V (Cloud LiveBoot). Both products are designed to get systems quickly back online and running while additional fixes are being implemented, the company said. Barracuda LiveBoot 2.0 also offers a backup […]

Scriptr.io, one of the earliest companies to develop a managed service and enterprise IoT application marketplace, revealed March 16 that has closed the second and final round of the $5 million Series A funding led by Middle East Venture Partners (MEVP). The closing includes the participation of San Francisco-based Endeavor Catalyst and Berytech Fund (BFII). […]

Zoomdata, developers of a visual analytics platform for big data, has launched a new smart connector for Hewlett-Packard Enterprise’s Vertica Advanced Analytics database for both cloud-based an on-premises deployments. Zoomdata is an open-standards platform that provides visual analytics solutions for big data workloads in a matter of seconds. Its new-gen architecture is capable of rendering […]