Chris Preimesberger

Nuance, the voice-recognition developer that supplies the technology behind Apple’s Siri and the Dragon transcription software, revealed July 21 that it is acquiring TouchCommerce, which provides messaging-based customer service and engagement for Web advertisers. Burlington, Mass.-based Nuance will pay a total of $215 million in cash and stock for TouchCommerce. Basically, Nuance now will be […]

The Green Grid has published a new, real time multi-metric view of data centers called Performance Indicator that will provide a broader understanding of a data center’s cooling performance and enable managers to take more informed decisions to maximize performance. The Green Grid is a seven-year-old consortium of data center-related technology companies dedicated to creating […]

The people of EMC have spoken, and it’s a deal. A whopping 98 percent of shareholders holding 74 percent of the outstanding shares voted “yes” July 19 for the world’s largest storage company to finalize its acquisition by Dell Inc. The $60 billion transaction, announced at $67 billion Oct. 12 and finalized in a vote […]

When releasing its financials for Q2 2016, VMware certainly didn’t appear to be a company that might be concerned about being marginalized by the hot open-source container development movement, as led by companies such as Docker, CoreOS and Google Kubernetes. Containers are the antithesis of hypervisors, VMware’s family jewels. But rest assured, this is a […]

12 Key Guidelines for Making a Digital Transformation Companies in digital denial don’t realize the need for new-generation IT. We look at crucial factors to consider when planning for a digital transformation. Identify the Desired Business Outcome The scope of digital transformation you need will be unique to your enterprise. Some organizations may focus on […]

Yahoo, that early pioneer of Web search, email and Web services that has seen competitors such as Google, Amazon, Facebook and LinkedIn zip right by it for too long, is slipping slowly but surely under the waves. While the company has been for sale for months, either in parts or as a whole, there doesn’t […]

Avaya and FatPipe Networks revealed July 18 that they will combine expertise to build data center software-defined networking (SDN) and software-defined WAN (SD-WAN) packages into a single solution for networking and unified communications. The two companies in a joint statement claimed that this will become the first pre-integrated SDN and SD-WAN enterprise solution of its […]

Facebook, like almost every other company established in this young century, was built upon open-source software. In turn, as the excellent open-source steward it is, the social network has given back to the community scads of useful tools and libraries to be used freely among members. Of course, it has been helpful that the company […]

One can find big data in almost anything. There is big data inside baseball statistics, weather conditions, census reports and traffic-flow studies. The Tour de France is in high gear this weekend, and, yes, there are big data numbers involved there, too. As might be expected, there are scads of event-type apps for smartphones and […]

The IT world has had purpose-built applications, servers and networking for as long as digital tech has been in use. Purpose-built storage, however, hasn’t seen the same type of adoption rate largely because most forms of data can be stored safely in any type of storage: solid-state, hard disk, cloud or on-premises. New York City-based […]

Common Security Pain Points for IT Admins and How to Solve Them The role of IT security administrators increasingly is changing as threats evolve. Here are some ways companies can help make their jobs a bit easier. Pain Point: Blind Spots Security executives only know a part of what’s going on in their environment. Systems, […]

iDrive has always had a solid cloud storage business, judging by its 3 million customers, but now its products are literally going solid. The Calabasas, Calif.-based cloud-storage software provider on July 14 came out with its first desktop storage device, iDrive Vault, which holds 4TB of content in the device itself and comes with another […]