Chris Preimesberger

It’s really just business and nothing personal, but Bitcasa wants to kill the local hard drive for storing personal and business files. The San Mateo, Calif.-based company on March 29 unveiled its new CloudFS software driver, which allows any device to access cloud storage automatically at the operating system level, eliminating the need for storage […]

The breakup of Yahoo, which has been a slow work in progress for years, is finally moving from threat to reality. A date has now been set—April 11—as a deadline to submit preliminary bids for the Internet pioneer’s Web businesses and Asian assets. The Wall Street Journal reported late March 28 that Yahoo has asked […]

All of a sudden, the U.S. Department of Justice’s case against Apple and its defense of security ethics has evaporated. But don’t think for one minute that the larger dispute between data privacy and national security has gone away with it. The DoJ filed court papers March 28 in Riverside, Calif. to drop a legal […]

Eight Ways Solar Power Is Driving New-Gen Computing As solar technology advances, it’s becoming clear that solar is a vital part of the equation that will grow tech’s future. Solar-Powered Data Centers Researchers from the University of Massachusetts and MIT made waves when they announced their new 6-kwh net zero facility. The center is not […]

Livefyre may not yet be a household name, but it’s certainly already a power player in the nascent content curation and digital engagement market. The San Francisco-based company, which bought Storify for its content archiving services two years ago, earlier this month poured all that IP into its Engagement Cloud service and relaunched it as […]

Oracle, like contemporaries Microsoft, Cisco Systems and EMC, was a closed shop for most of its history, informing customers that it was either the Oracle way or the highway. Those times are going, going, gone. These old-school IT companies finally have come around to realizing that software and services for the 21st century must be […]

If Yahoo’s board of directors—who hired CEO Marissa Mayer in 2012 and have backed her through thick, but mostly thin, ever since—are too slow to make big changes at the Internet pioneer, than some investors say they will do it themselves. Activist hedge fund Starboard Value LP, which owns 1.7 percent of the company, in […]

SAN FRANCISCO—To emphasize that it indeed is getting more focused on becoming a leader in the cloud development world, Google on March 23 revealed new enterprise features for its Google Cloud Platform. Google made the announcements at its GCP NEXT 2016 conference here at Pier 48, across McCovey Cove from AT&T Park. Machine Learning Google […]

SAN FRANCISCO—Diane Greene, co-founder of VMware 19 years ago, made her first public appearance representing her new employer, Google, at the company’s March 23 GCP NEXT 2016 here at the cavernous Pier 48 warehouse. What was the significance of her appearance? Google is signaling to the entire IT world and to Wall Street that it […]

Ever tried to migrate an on-premises IT system to the cloud? If so, then you have a real-world idea about how complicated and expensive it can be. If you’re thinking about making a move like this soon, your timing may be excellent. Webscale Networks, which claims to have created the industry’s first fully integrated Web […]

No single company can hope to become the majority provider of goods and services for the burgeoning Internet of things (IoT). This applies even to IBM, the world’s longest-living and most well-known IT vendor. However, with partners at its side, IBM certainly plans to be on the short list of the largest go-to vendors that […]

10 Essential Steps to Mapping Your DevOps Journey We look at 10 suggestions from Puppet Labs’ 2015 “State of DevOps” report for mapping out a DevOps journey and how to build a high-performing IT team. Establish Why You’re Doing DevOps This is where you begin to build your business case. Simply declaring “We’re doing DevOps” […]