Chris Preimesberger

Rethinking Data Protection, Recovery in a Multi-Cloud World With the rise of modern cloud computing, and corresponding apps with multi-faceted, distributed data, it’s time to rethink data protection across the multi-cloud landscape. It’s a Myth That Public Clouds Are Infallible While many are making the move to another cloud service provider to combat vendor lock-in, […]

In-memory databases, an expensive enterprise tool that many industry people believe will become cheaper and more commonly utilized during the next several years, soon will be getting a new development center.Solid-state dynamic memory maker Samsung and HANA database developer SAP opened a joint research center Sept. 29 where engineers will explore and test new technology […]

Google, concerned that it is not moving the needle nearly enough against the overwhelming market dominance of Amazon and other competitors in the enterprise web services business, staged a media event in San Francisco Sept. 29 to announce new tools and services designed to attract new users and sales. The huge internet services provider started […]

LAS VEGAS—For an agonizing window of time in the past few years, NetApp was like an all-star hitter in a debilitating batting slump. It wasn’t connecting often enough in clutch sales situations, even though in seasons past it was known for getting big hits with key products at the right times in the major-league IT […]

In the last several years, the extremely popular HGTV cable television network has brought renewed attention to home buying, selling and renewal, not to mention incredible worldwide ratings and profits for its owner, Scripps Networks Interactive. In certain time periods, HGTV often out-draws major networks programming. Alongside that television phenomenon, online services to find reputable […]

LAS VEGAS—Fifteen months ago, in June 2015, NetApp was up to its controllers in some serious business and market-share issues. The company wasn’t picking up enough new business, customer resistance to new complex clustered storage migrations was causing a slowdown in hardware sales, and revenues were clearly shrinking. Sales had fallen 2.5 percent overall in […]

Digital Realty may be the largest global provider of data center, colocation and interconnection services of which you’ve never heard. But that doesn’t mean it can’t be newsworthy. The publicly traded New York City-based company (NYSE: DLR), which owns about 140 secure colocation and interconnection facilities around the world, has about 2,500 enterprise customers and […]

10 Tech Policy Issues the 45th U.S. President Will Face It’s a good time to take a party-neutral look at technology policy issues—from cyber-security to net neutrality—that are relevant in this election cycle. Cyber-security The Declaration of Independence is a time-honored mission statement for our public servants. Yet our landscape has changed significantly since 1776. […]

LAS VEGAS—NetApp operates as if it is two storage companies rolled into one. In fact, it is. The Sunnyvale, Calif.-based company, which continues to iterate its own ONTAP flash and hybrid storage products in parallel with its recently acquired SolidFire division, opened its annual Insight conference here Sept. 26 by introducing a phalanx of new […]

SAN FRANCISCO—Assessing the voting public’s mood swings, likes and dislikes to win an election has been a top-line task for political campaigns in the United States for most of its 240 years of existence. But only in the last decade have the internet, social networks and real-time analysis of big data collected from all corners […]

Salesforce.com and Twitter—two companies that have banked hundreds of millions of dollars in venture capital over the years but have yet to show any substantial profit—are “exploring” a multibillion-dollar merger in which Salesforce will become Twitter’s new owner, The Wall Street Journal reported Sept. 23. Neither company commented officially on the story. Later in the […]

The Shadow Data Threat: What It Is and How to Safeguard Against It Organizations making more and more use of cloud apps should be aware of shadow data threats as well as shadow IT. Shadow IT vs. Shadow Data Shadow IT is the use of cloud applications that have not been approved by IT security […]