Chris Preimesberger

LAS VEGAS—CA Technologies isn’t one of those companies mentioned often in cocktail conversations. When someone asks what exactly CA does, even longtime employees have to stop, take a sip from a drink, and think for a minute before carefully offering an answer. Some folks familiar with the company roll their eyes when the name comes […]

LAS VEGAS—CA Technologies has, over a lot of years in business, earned the reputation of being a company that would rather buy than build. All one has to do is look at the number of acquisitions the company has made—65 since 1981, 20 of those since 2006—to observe CA’s strategy. While CA in 2015 isn’t […]

10 Cloud Services Enterprises Are Most Likely to Blacklist Many people use enterprise file sharing and sync apps for personal and business purposes, but these apps are likely to be restricted in many organizations. Dropbox People generally take the path of convenience over security. Dropbox allows users to easily share files with anyone, and typically […]

Toronto-based Cirba Inc., which specializes in software-defined infrastructure control software, on Nov. 18 released a new integration to EMC’s ViPR SRM (storage resource manager), which enables enterprises to optimize use of storage resources through smarter workload placements and visibility into storage system health. Cirba provides analytics for storage supply and demand in the physical and […]

LAS VEGAS—As calendar year 2015 year winds down, Las Vegas in the days before Thanksgiving is remarkably quiet. Planes coming in aren’t as packed with people, you can walk right up to a cab at McCarran International Airport, and obtaining a restaurant reservation generally is a snap. However, it’s still high IT conference season at […]

How Network Administrators Can Ease the Inevitable Move to IPv6 The well of IPv4 addresses has run dry. That means the adoption of IPv6 is inevitable. Here’s how network administrators can make this adjustment as easy as possible. Defining IPv6 IPv6 is the most recent version of the Internet Protocol, the communications protocol that provides […]

Veritone, an ambitious startup that is trying to do for online audio what Google did for Web search, said Nov. 17 that it is implementing Microsoft’s advanced natural language processing engine inside its own cognitive media platform to provide state-of-the-art speech recognition to Veritone’s customers. Speech recognition is done well by only a few companies, […]

Dell on Nov. 17 added a new option to its endpoint security arsenal when it announced a collaboration deal with Cylance, a cybersecurity software startup that uses artificial intelligence to proactively prevent, rather than reactively detect, advanced persistent threats and malware. Cylance’s Endpoint Security Suite Enterprise combines authentication, encryption and advanced threat protection into a […]

It was slightly over five years ago that Hewlett-Packard became embroiled in a bidding war with Dell for then-independent 3PAR Storage, ultimately winning the war at a price of $2.35 billion. It was all well worth it for HP. 3PAR has become the premier storage brand for the company in the years since. In fact, […]

With the recent groundswell of interest in container-based enterprise IT systems, it was only a matter of time before someone came up with an actual development environment specifically for containers. ContainerX has come up with that platform. The San Jose, Calif.-based startup on Nov. 16 at DockerCon Europe in Barcelona, Spain, introduced itself as a […]

Setting Up Best Practices for Container Security Container virtualization is picking up steam, and as with most areas of IT, security is paramount. We list security best practices for enterprise IT managers. For Starters, Here’s Why Containers Are So Welcomed The attributes of Docker, Google Kubernetes, CoreOS and other containers are numerous: No heavy hypervisor. […]

How Deduplication Has Evolved to Handle the Deluge of Data Deduplication comes in many unique forms, meaning that a variety of solutions exist to aid small and midsize organizations with their backup needs. Inline Deduplication This is an “always on” solution that works in real time as data is being written to the system. By […]