Chris Preimesberger

Zuora, a fast-growing software-as-a-service (SaaS) provider that offers cloud-based billing, recurring revenue, payments and billing solutions, on March 15 released a new developer center and added 30 new applications to its Connect platform.The Connect marketplace now totals about 100 apps created specifically for subscription businesses, including quoting, financial operations, data ingestion, e-signatures and ERP integrations. […]

A 2017 Strategy Playbook for Data Center Managers Doing business requires strategy, and strategy requires enterprise management to make the right decisions and follow up with implementations. For example: It’s almost time to launch the project on which the company has been working so hard. Your data center is in place and ready to handle […]

UN Global Pulse, a United Nations initiative seeking innovation in big data projects, and IT data storage maker Western Digital have shaken hands on a project to launch a competition called the Data for Climate Action challenge. Data for Climate Action is an open innovation challenge to use data science and big data from the […]

VMware, which bet $1.54 billion on acquiring AirWatch three years ago, has been busy ever since putting that company’s intellectual property to work in new and different ways. The world’s largest virtualization software provider on March 14 unveiled updates to its Workspace ONE product that cram into that platform such functions as application and access […]

CEO Marissa Mayer may be on her way out of the Yahoo captain’s chair, but she won’t necessarily need to go knocking on doors looking for a new job. She’ll have a smidgen of cash in the bank to help keep her family clothed, fed and housed for a while. In fact, the family probably […]

Coresystems wants to do for on-demand field service employment what Uber has done for the ride-hailing business: allow qualified workers to participate in projects where and when they choose to do so. As a result, the 10-year-old web-services provider has introduced something called the Project Management Module, a major new addition to its original field-service […]

Intel revealed March 13 that it figuratively will write a check with a lot of zeroes, $15,300,000,000 ($15.3 billion, for short), to acquire autonomous vehicle-software maker Mobileye. That’s putting a company’s money where its risks are. The transaction immediately gives Intel a strong new position in the market for autonomous vehicle IT while at the […]

In an industry moment when some young storage vendors are going belly-up (Violin Memory, Coraid, Nirvanex) and most others simply aren’t making any money, Excelero Storage has boldly stepped forward out of stealth mode and planted a new stake in the ground. The Santa Clara, Calif.-based startup, which develops software-defined block storage for data center […]

New Q4 2016 data from Synergy Research Group released Maarch 10 indicates that the enterprise SaaS (software as a service) market grew a whopping 32 percent year over year to nearly $13 billion in quarterly revenues, with ERP and collaboration being the highest growth segments. For the third successive quarter, Microsoft was the clear leader […]

China’s Alibaba Cloud and Intel on March 9 unveiled a pilot program to build a cloud-based FPGA (field programmable gate array) acceleration service. The goal of the project is to enable cloud-services customers to have virtual access to a large set of compute resources to help them manage business, scientific and enterprise data application workloads […]