Chris Preimesberger

8 Things to Consider When Moving an Enterprise System to the Cloud The move to the cloud can be difficult and expensive if not planned well. To ensure the process is as smooth as possible, enterprises should follow these steps. Adopt One Cloud Service at a Time While many enterprises want to move multiple services—for […]

LAS VEGAS—Day 1 of EMC World is always one of the newsiest days of the year in the data storage business, and May 2 at the Sands Expo Center here was no different from years gone by. Next year’s will be a change, however, because it will be called Dell EMC World, combining the parent […]

Oracle is going into the meter-reading-by-cloud business. A mere one week after buying Textura, a construction management and engineering SaaS software provider, Oracle on May 2 added Opower, a publicly traded provider of customer engagement and energy-efficiency cloud services to utilities. The transaction is valued at approximately $532 million, or $10.30 per share, net of […]

Iron Mountain, the patriarch of all data storage companies at age 65, launched a new cloud archive offering April 28 that gives the company a fresh approach for the digital 21st century. The IM Cloud Archive is described as a cost-effective repository for organizations needing to protect and preserve data retained short or long term […]

Oracle added to its growing cloud services roster April 28 by acquiring publicly traded Textura, a provider of construction contracts and payment management cloud services for about $663 million in cash, net of Textura’s liquid assets. The purchase price amounted to $26 per share, exactly the price at which the stock closed April 28. Oracle […]

Rubrik, the rather impertinent startup that merely wants to replace in one fell swoop all conventional data backup-and-recovery point products that have taken 30-plus years for other companies to develop, has added more new functionality to its new-gen data-management system. The Palo Alto, Calf.-based company on April 26 unveiled what it described as the IT […]

SAP continues to expand far beyond the reaches of mere data center software. The SAP that used to simply sell systems middleware and on-premises business applications a decade ago has advanced far past where many people thought it would go when it was struggling to find new markets in the early 2000s. The company, which […]

Facebook continues its winning ways, reporting a whopping 52 percent surge in revenue in its Q1 2016 earnings report to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission April 27. The bottom-line numbers for the social network spoke for themselves: revenue of $5.38 billion, up 52 percent over $3.54 billion a year ago; and net income of […]

The lifeless body of an Apple employee was found the morning of April 27 in a conference room on Building 1 at the company’s Cupertino, Calif., campus, according to the Santa Clara County sheriff’s office. The man, who had a gun lying near him, was found unresponsive after an emergency call to report a “possible […]

IBM and NAND flash storage haven’t been used in the same sentence for too long a time. IBM, for all the years it has been in business, didn’t have its own solid-state storage in house until it bought Texas Memory Systems and its RamSan product line in 2012. Big Blue took that IP and came […]

Yahoo, under mounting pressure from a growing number of dissatisfied investors, revealed April 27 that it has decided to diffuse a proxy fight with activist investor Starboard Value LP, and as a result will add four of Starboard’s independent directors to its board. Starboard CEO and Chief Investment Officer Jeff Smith, the most vocal of […]

11 Data Issues That Keep IT Security Pros Up at Night A new Ponemon study uncovers what’s really keeping IT security professionals up at night. Here are the key takeaways from the report. Security Pros Don’t Know Where All Sensitive Data Is Located According to the report, 62 percent of surveyed security professionals are concerned […]