Chris Preimesberger

Salesforce, which has been as progressive a new-generation Silicon Valley establishment as there is during its 17-year lifetime, continues to add applications and services to its already impressive arsenal of tools. The San Francisco-based web services giant revealed Aug. 1 that it has acquired Quip, a cloud-based word processing app co-founded by former Facebook CTO […]

This shouldn’t come as too much of a surprise to IT people in the know, but new research data released Aug. 1 from Synergy Research Group shows that Amazon Web Services, Microsoft, IBM and Google combined control well more than half of the worldwide cloud infrastructure service market. Breaking that data point down, AWS all […]

Many of us already have seen the distinctive Google mapping cars rolling down the street, with their spinning 360-degree video towers on their roofs. But drivers and pedestrians alike will soon see that Uber is doing the same thing with its own fleet of geo-mapping vehicles. The San Francisco-based ride-hailing service wants to move into […]

10 Reasons Why Enterprise Software Doesn’t Meet Employee Expectations Enterprise software is still way behind the expectations of many employees. Here’s why today’s enterprise software is still hindering employee adoption. Legacy Software Outdated and Hard to Maintain Let’s start with legacy, on-premises software. Enterprises spend $3.5 trillion on enterprise software annually, according to Gartner Research, […]

A year and a half ago, IBM announced its commitment to developing its own NAND flash storage lineup by putting a full $1 billion in research and development money where its corporate mouth was. The results of that initiative continue to emanate from Armonk, N.Y., and they will for a while to come. Big Blue […]

How Trust and Security in the Enterprise Have Evolved in 40 Years As new technologies and movements have been introduced, security in the enterprise has changed—and that will continue into the future. The Dark Ages of Security Even before computers, enterprises had assets to protect, some of them intangible such as intellectual property. Security and […]

5 Common Phishing Attacks and 5 Ways Not to Get Hooked Phishing attacks continue to be a problem for most companies. Here are some of the most common forms of phishing attacks, along with appropriate countermeasures. Ransomware You do not want to see these words in your email: “To unlock your files, you need to […]

Microsoft tried seriously to buy Yahoo in its entirety eight-and-a-half years ago for $47 billion. How history would have been changed had Yahoo co-founder and CEO Jerry Yang and his board listened to Carl Icahn, Eric Jackson, Daniel Loeb and other activist investors and consummated that deal. Ostensibly, Microsoft would have moved into the Web […]

Mark R. Templeton, a managing director of venture capital firm Scientific Ventures and co-founder and former president of Artisan Components, drowned July 17 after his inflatable kayak overturned on the Rogue River in Oregon. The news first appeared July 21 on Business Wire, which quoted the Josephine County (Oregon) Sheriff’s Office. Templeton’s body was not […]

Messaging platforms and all the apps that can run on them comprise the hottest development trend right now in the IT world. Facebook, by adding additional functionality to its already-popular Messenger platform, has brought this into the mainstream and renewed its perceived enterprise value in just the last several months. However, there are other lesser-known […]

Southwest Airlines and its IT people had a pretty grim 24 hours July 20 and 21 after the airline suffered a disastrous IT trifecta: routers and Web servers crashing, backup systems not operating and finally, even the disaster recovery system failing to work. It doesn’t get more nightmarish than that for an IT manager in […]

iPhones represent a lot of functionality to millions of users, but never before has the ubiquitous Apple smartphone been a biometrics security device. Tascent, which for 18 months had been focused on iris-recognition in two airport terminals (Gatwick Airport’s South Terminal in Horley, England, and Dubai International), has branched out big time in a new […]