Chris Preimesberger

As Three Dog Night stated famously in a hit record back in the ’60s, “One is the loneliest number that you’ll ever do.” An increasing number of American corporations are now singing that tune. They are determining that smaller and lighter is better, and that two or more entities are better at doing business than […]

SACRAMENTO, Calif.—In an effort to draw attention to a gaping hole in the work force—an estimated 1 million jobs that need to be filled in the cyber-tech security business during the next few years—an industry consortium and the State of California on Jan. 28 launched a new program called the California Cyber Cup challenge for […]

DevOps, the concept of matching development teams with operations specialists and automating processes to enable better software iteration, has been a growing category of IT for a few years, but only now is the venture capital community starting to put its money where the dev and ops are. A key example of this is the […]

What to Consider When Planning a Software-Defined WAN Deployment Wide-area networks that use SDN achieve greater agility and flexibility. Here is what network administrators should consider as they plan an SD-WAN deployment. State of the WAN Today A bit of background first: Business, education and government organizations use wide-area networks to enable communications and move […]

The Facebook-led Open Compute Project said Jan. 27 that it is creating a new OCP Telco Project focused on modernizing data center technologies for telecommunications companies. At the same time, several leading telecommunication operators and other industry leaders said they are joining OCP to help drive the project.The Open Compute Project (OCP) is an effort […]

Salesforce on Jan. 26 launched a newly architected enterprise version of its Heroku application development platform, which Salesforce customers use to build their own customer and partner-facing apps and deploy in the company’s App Cloud. Heroku Enterprise was announced last September at the company’s DreamForce conference in San Francisco and has been in beta mode […]

VMware revealed its Q4 2015 earnings results Jan. 26, and with them came confirmation of an earlier published report that layoffs are indeed in the works. About 800 of its 17,100 jobs are being cut, largely in preparation for the acquisition of EMC, VMware’s majority owner, by Dell Inc. The $67 billion acquisition, the largest […]

Backblaze, the small, independent cloud storage company that competes directly against the Amazons and Googles of the world and yet has held its own, is going back to the future. The San Mateo, Calif.-based company on Jan. 26 announced a public beta called the Restore, Return, Refund Program. This initiative combines Backblaze’s data storage and […]

Twitter, the beleaguered micro-messaging network that has become a standard communication service for about 320 million people but still cannot turn a profit, announced more personnel-related news Jan. 25. The San Francisco-based company that laid off 8 percent (336) of its 4,100 employees last fall is now regularly shedding members of its leadership team. CEO […]

VMware Senior Vice President and CIO Bask Iyer had some rather impressive shoes to fill when he joined the world’s largest virtualization software company in March 2015. He came from Juniper Networks to replace former CIO Tony Scott, who was selected by the Obama administration to be CIO of the United States. Iyer leads VMware’s […]

There was good news Jan. 22 from 451 Research—although not all that surprising—for the cloud storage industry: Public cloud storage spending will double by next year. This is not a trivial market by any stretch. The global cloud storage business sector has been projected by another researcher, MarketsandMarkets, to grow from $18.87 billion in 2015 […]

MariaDB, which has replaced MySQL in the LAMP open-source stack acronym (Linux, MariaDB, Apache and PHP), made news Jan. 21 with venture capital help and the appointments of two key C-level executives. The company received $9 million in equity financing to support accelerating sales and advanced technology development. Intel Capital and California Technology Ventures were […]