Chris Preimesberger

Docker technical staff member Ian Murdock, who for nearly 20 years served as one of the most influential thought leaders inside the open source software community and was the co-founder of Debian Linux, died Dec. 28 under mysterious circumstances. He was 42. Docker is an open platform for developers and sysadmins to build, ship, and […]

15 Emerging Trends in the Security Sector for 2016 Security professionals offer their thoughts on emerging security trends for which the industry and enterprises in general need to be prepared in 2016. Hacktivism and Attack Surfaces Increase As cyber-attack tools and services become increasingly commoditized, the cost of attacking an organization is dropping dramatically, enabling […]

Top 10 High-Profile Global Hack Attacks of 2015 The high-profile hacks that dominated 2014 continued in 2015. Here are 10 of the top global hack attacks of the year. U.S. Office of Personnel Management This breach was one of the biggest ever of U.S. government systems believed—although not proved—to be perpetrated by Chinese hackers. The […]

NetApp might be the No. 2 enterprise storage provider in the world behind only EMC, but even companies high up in the market’s food chain need a spark once in awhile. The Sunnyvale, Calif.-based company may have obtained something along those lines Dec. 21 with the acquisition of solid-state storage maker SolidFire for $870 million […]

If one asks the experts, the use of data-processing software to “learn” new ideas — loosely called cognitive intelligence — will be going mainstream in some business verticals in 2016. By definition, cognitive intelligence is the capability to reason, plan, solve problems, think abstractly, comprehend complex ideas, learn quickly and learn from experience. Humans are […]

Oration, a cloud-based startup whose service has nothing to do with speechmaking but everything to do with efficient shopping for prescription-based medications, launched a mobile platform for its users on Dec. 16. The Foster City, Calif.-based company, which is focused on helping enterprise employees through their health care insurance plans, introduced OrationRx, which it positions […]

If only Henry Ford could see how far beyond “black paint only” his company is now. Amid the news about Google and Uber apparently gearing up for a battle to see who can be the first to put automated taxis on public roadways, the venerable Ford Motor Co. is finally jumping into a whole new […]

Often, when a company’s earnings report doesn’t live up to investors’ expectations, one can find in the explanation the line “due to strengthening of the U.S. dollar compared to foreign currencies.” Most of the time, it’s found deep in the text; for Oracle on Dec. 16, it comprised the second sentence of the press report. […]

Most savvy IT people already suspect that enterprise workloads processed inside virtual machines or in cloud services are swiftly overtaking those done in on-site data centers, and now there is more evidence to support that theory. Hybrid flash—a mix of solid-state flash drives and conventional hard disk drives, predicated on use cases—is clearly prevailing over […]

Facebook is testing out a challenge to old-timers Angie’s List, Yelp and others with a new searchable service-referral directory called Facebook Services. The social network now enables search of its own membership’s commentary and personal pages to offer business referrals on a local and/or regional basis. Facebook Services is only available on desktop at this […]

With an increasing deluge of personally and professionally created content being uploaded to Web services companies and downloaded to consumers, something eventually has to give in terms of either opening the arteries of the Internet or thinning data streams, so they can move faster. Otherwise, users face virtual traffic jams way more problematic than the […]

How Connected Analysis Can Put a Dent in Cyber-crime Graph databases provide a new front in fraud-catching technology, making use of real-time analysis to quickly identify suspicious acts. What Graph Search Does A graph database is a database that uses graph structures with nodes, edges and properties to represent and store data. Every element in […]