Chris Preimesberger

History recorded the first successful email event going across disparate networks as occurring way back on Nov. 22, 1977, when data flowed seamlessly from a refurbished bread truck (which had been rebuilt into a mobile data relay station) from a location in Portola Valley, California, to a gateway at Stanford Research Institute (SRI) in Menlo […]

With more demand in the markets for real-time or near real-time performance in enterprise and mobile applications, DRAM (dynamic random access memory) is now becoming a hotter commodity, and market prices are soon going to show it. DRAM is used in virtually all smartphones, laptops and tablet PCs to handle hot data and in most […]

How to Break Down Barriers to Enterprise IoT The Internet of things can be a potential game-changer in the enterprise, but there are challenges to adoption. Here are some issues to keep in mind. Challenges Lie at the Edge The edge bridges an important and long-standing gap between information technology and operational technology, where the […]

The Obama administration, which eight years ago instituted a “Cloud First” IT modernization policy for all federal offices and agencies, on June 30 issued another IT-related directive—this time aimed at law enforcement agencies of all levels. Several Silicon Valley companies, including Amazon Web Services, Appriss, Esri, MasterCard and RTI International will be among the first […]

What to Consider When Choosing an IT Service Management Package Users increasingly demand a frictionless user environment. Here are some tips to find an IT service management solution that meets expectations. How Will It Enable My End Users? Will They Use It? Your users will utilize tools and applications that enrich their work lives. They […]

It hasn’t exactly been a stellar legal month for Oracle Corp. On May 26, after six years of litigation, a San Francisco federal jury handed the world’s largest database company a major defeat in its Java copyright lawsuit against Google, which used the open-source programming language in its development of the Android operating system for […]

While we may not have thought of it in such terms, we have had a “device-as-a-service” business model for many years all over the world. Whenever someone rents a car or other vehicle, uses a printer through a cloud service or subscribes to a Pacemaker for a heart patient, those are all examples of DaaS, […]

Generally, one receives the quality of the product or service for which one pays. If you obtain something free of charge, then you really don’t have a right to complain, correct? Such would be the logic.So when Google Calendar, the free scheduling record-keeper for millions of Google Drive and Android users, crashed the morning of […]

It’s a really good thing Wowza Media Systems doesn’t have a corporate ego. It does an awful lot of work behind the IT scenes that few people ever realize. The Golden, Colorado-based company, which started out 10 years ago simply wanting to replace Adobe Flash as a media server, has grown into the largest and […]

Amazon Web Services is nothing if not simple and elastic. At least that’s what the company keeps telling us. Ten years ago, Amazon Web Services changed the data storage industry forever with the launch of its Simple Storage Service, also known as S3 Elastic Storage, because of its unlimited capacity. Since then, the Seattle-based mega-IT […]

Dell, a longtime Red Hat partner—in fact, the first household name IT vendor to hook up with Red Hat more than 20 years ago—may have made bigger headlines on June 28, Day 1 of the Red Hat Summit in San Francisco, than the host company itself. Dell’s Red Hat Cloud Solution, now in its fifth […]

The Obama administration is putting its money where its mouth is when it comes to investing in tech education projects. On June 27, the U.S. government released $150 million in Department of Labor grants for 39 tech-related partnerships across the country. Using these funds, awardees will launch innovative training and placement models to develop tech […]