Chris Preimesberger

7 Important Tasks That Bots Will Be Able to Do at Work Bots in the workplace will continue to change and transform, providing employees better opportunities to be effective and productive at their jobs. Have Two-Way Conversations Most bots available today only do one thing: provide alerts or information to people. One-way alerts from business […]

Oracle cannot seem to stay out of litigation—whether it’s with other companies or its own employees. A few days after losing a key battle to Google in a six-year-long software copyright infringement lawsuit, the world’s largest database maker found itself in court again, this time facing legal action by a former employee who claimed wrongful […]

With the rise of Docker, Mesosphere, Kubernetes, ContainerX, CoreOS and other container suppliers, it appears that the major IT vendors now need to have a container strategy to work into this fast-rising trend. EMC, which has been about containing and protecting data for more than a generation, now officially has a container strategy of its […]

New-gen security provider Attivo Networks, which mimics a real IT system using a deception approach that lures bad actors in and then traps them, has expanded its reach to serve the budding IoT (Internet of things) market. The Fremont, Calif.-based company has been successful for five years with its on-premises, server-loaded service and a cloud […]

Salesforce has acquired 38 companies since 2006, and the most expensive by far was the one it announced June 1: $2.8 billion for e-commerce marketing platform provider Demandware Inc. San Francisco-based Salesforce will pay $75 per share in the transaction—a full 56 percent premium on Demandware’s closing May 31 stock price of $47.99. The stock […]

Before there was Facebook and LinkedIn, there was MySpace. Fifteen years ago, MySpace was the hottest social Internet network going for teens and tweens on laptops. It provided a place for young Web users to be creative and talk about music, cars, sex and TV shows. But when Facebook came into the mainstream in 2006, […]

Cloud Foundry might be the only PaaS to have its own user conference—a three-day one, at that. Cloud Foundry is an open source cloud platform-as-a-service operating owned as a joint venture by EMC, VMware and General Electric and run by the Cloud Foundry Foundation. Cloud Foundry was designed and developed by a small team from […]

NetApp continues to grease the skids for companies still on the fence about adopting NAND flash storage into their IT systems. The Sunnyvale, Calif.-based storage maker came out May 31 with the latest edition of its ONTAP storage file system, its first operating system built expressly for NAND flash storage deployments. In particular, it’s aimed […]

First of all, as we take note of all the rolling eyes over at the Googleplex, the May 26 federal district court decision disavowing Oracle’s Java copyright infringement claim against Google apparently will be appealed again, so let’s let that be the foundation for this perspective piece. Oracle as a corporation truly doesn’t understand the […]

How to Alleviate the 15 Top Stressors in IT Systems Security concerns in IT these days are more than keeping perimeters secure. Here are 15 challenges that keep security professionals awake at night. Stressor No. 1: Are We a Target? How to alleviate: Accept the fact that everyone is a target. Threat actors are looking […]

Is Salesforce, which does all its business in the cloud, in the process of moving all of its own core business processes to that same public cloud? It’s too early to tell at this point, because the world’s largest and most successful sales and marketing cloud services provider still uses its own servers and storage […]

Six years after first suing Google for ostensibly stealing Java code and using it to build the Android mobile operating system into a worldwide smartphone phenomenon, Oracle has been whacked by the San Francisco federal district court for a second time. The 10-person jury on May 26 cleared Google of copyright infringement in the case […]