Chris Preimesberger

If you have a company but no specific market, then you might as well create your own. Palo Alto, Calif.-based Striim, which cleverly rebranded itself after being called WebAction for three years, is pioneering a new category called stream analytics, based on real-time streaming data integration. Thus far, it is working, because it is attracting […]

Apple Goes Smaller but More Powerful With iPhone SE Apple launched a smaller iPhone (the SE), unveiled another edition of the iPad, previewed iOS 9.3 and offered an update on Apple TV. Cook Gets Right to the Point CEO Tim Cook started by addressing the current hotly contested issue of how much control government should […]

Apple staged a news conference March 21 at its Town Hall auditorium on its in Cupertino, Calif., campus, but it did not introduce any new products. The world’s richest company unveiled only updated versions of existing products. The last time Apple showed a legitimately new product was the Apple Watch back in September 2014. This […]

Newcomer Skyport Systems, which has developed new-gen security specifically for enterprise architecture, has landed a $30 million round of venture capital funding, enabling the company to expand sales and marketing and accelerate its research and development programs. The funding was led by GV (formerly known as Google Ventures), with participation from Cisco Investments, Thomvest Ventures, […]

Silicon Valley’s favorite female CEO, Marissa Mayer, told Charlie Rose on his Bloomberg News talk show the other day that she has a three-year strategic plan for continuing in her attempt to turn around Yahoo. Basically, she wants to do this by transforming Yahoo into a go-to site on mobile devices, which is not exactly […]

Irving, Texas-based NEC Corporation of America is modernizing its presence in the software-defined networking market with a new controller that works with open-source hardware and software. NEC, which provides and integrates advanced IT, communications, networking and biometric solutions, on March 16 announced the release of the next generation of its ProgrammableFlow Networking Suite, which includes […]

Dr. Chuck Geschke is being honored with a lifetime achievement award at the annual gala March 16 of the Commonwealth Club of California, and few IT thought leaders deserve an accolade of that magnitude more than he. You’re forgiven if the name doesn’t immediately ring a bell. However, if you’ve ever used Creative Cloud, Photoshop, […]

There are excellent reasons why social networks, such as Facebook, LinkedIn, Instagram, and Twitter, have multiple millions of daily users: Reason No. 1 is that they deliver great value to global audiences; No. 2, of course, is that they cost little or nothing to use. They represent that classic Information Age business trade-off: You get […]

Oracle reported good news and not-so-good news in its Q3 2016 financial results March 15; then, its executives spent time on the earnings call claiming that it has conquered competitors Workday and Salesforce in the marketplace. Of course, slamming the competition publicly has been the modus operandi for years at the Redwood City, Calif.-based enterprise […]

Before it launched co-founder Hasso Plattner’s landmark in-memory HANA (High-Performance Analytic Appliance) database in December 2010, SAP’s business was all about mostly anonymous but important middleware and apps that only saw the light of day inside enterprise systems. Not anymore, however. SAP (which, by the way, stands unremarkably for Systems, Applications and Products) has branched […]

All-flash storage array maker Pure Storage on March 14 took a tip from the server business and introduced the industry’s first storage blade server, called the FlashBlade. Blades in IT are known for their power and influence on the computing side. A blade server is a server chassis housing multiple thin, modular electronic circuit boards, […]

Developers and IT operations professionals can obtain formal certification for their DevOps skills and know-how starting March 15. CloudBees, which makes an enterprise platform and tools for continuous software delivery, disclosed to eWEEK that it will begin a professional certification program for both Jenkins and CloudBees Jenkins engineers March 15. Though the open-source Jenkins server […]