Chris Preimesberger

TIBCO Software, the enterprise jack-of-many-trades company that does everything from data mining, to cloud services, to analytics, to graph databases, unveiled several new products and services at its annual conference last week in Las Vegas. TIBCO, whose name emanates from its first product, the Teknekron Information Bus (abbreviated now as TIBCO, The Information Bus Company), […]

Chatbots have been around since the 1960s, but they’re now experiencing a true rebirth in new-gen tech, thanks to high-visibility companies Facebook (Messenger), Apple (Siri), IBM (Watson), WeChat and Google (Assistant), which are championing them and all their intelligence capabilities in upgraded platforms. Thus, as trends such as this one start to get traction, other […]

Google I/O 2016 Heralds Diverse Software Products, Dev Tools Google debuted new consumer apps and services, enterprise apps, developer tools and services, and guidance on what the company is working on for the future. Google Assistant Will Help Run People’s Lives Google Assistant is a Siri-like app that can move from device to device (including […]

Hewlett-Packard Enterprise apparently isn’t finished reinventing itself. As part of its May 24 earnings report—which was the most positive one it’s seen in five years—HPE revealed plans to spin out its enterprise services unit as a separate entity and merge it with IT consultancy Computer Sciences Corp. of San Mateo, California. The huge IT products […]

Cloud-print management provider Y Soft has expanded its partnership with Xerox, as the world’s most recognizable copier maker expands its own footprint in the IT services world. In an announcement made May 23, Xerox selected YSoft SafeQ as its solution for subscription services in the Xerox Secure Print Manager Suite. Customers who purchase the suite […]

Any company calling itself iCharts knows at one point or another they will have to fend off jokes about being geared only for optometrists or whether it has a “clear vision” about its strategy in business. Only afterward will the inquisitor discover that iCharts isn’t about wall posters with large and small letters, but that […]

Unlike the two previous Oracle v. Google copyright infringement trials, in 2012 and 2014, trial No. 3—which deals exclusively with “fair use” of the open-source Java programming language by Google— has moved along in swifter fashion. Day 10 in the trial, being held in the U.S. District Court, Northern District of California in San Francisco, […]

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.—Google has staged its Google I/O conference for 10 years, yet it’s doubtful that more legitimate new-product and services announcements were made at any previous I/O gathering than at the 2016 event, which ended May 20 at Shoreline Amphitheatre here. On Day 1, the huge search and Web services company introduced a series […]

Dell Storage made a rather unusual announcement May 19: A major update in its storage file system without adding anything new to its storage hardware lineup. Historically, whenever a storage company decides to upgrade any of its software, it invariably launches a new product, or at least an addition to an existing product line. Not […]

10 Security Reasons Why the Enterprise Still Fears the Cloud Despite advantages in cost, scalability and flexibility, enterprise companies still are dubious about using cloud services. Here are 10 reasons why. Safety of Data Storage The single biggest concern indicated by participants is “safety of the data” (40 percent of respondents). This may indicate a […]

An economist testifying for Oracle in federal court May 18, Day 8 of its copyright infringement case against Google, told the jury that the search company’s use of Java APIs in Android should not be considered “fair use” of the open-source programming language. The testimony by economist Adam Jaffe was the final word of the […]

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.—On May 18, the first day of Google I/O 2016, Google brought to the Shoreline Amphitheater stage news involving its Android mobile operating system, unveiled a powerful analytics engine and introduced a new server ASIC at the same time. Yes, Google not only creates software of all kinds, it also makes server components. […]