Chris Preimesberger

Activision Blizzard, publisher of such highly successful console video games as Call of Duty and World of Warcraft, revealed Nov. 2 that it will purchase King Digital Entertainment, creator of Candy Crush Saga, for $5.9 billion. Activision, already the largest and most successful interactive entertainment publisher in the business, fortifies its market position mightily with […]

The Anti-converged System: 10 Steps to a Disaggregated Data Center A disaggregated data center—a well-connected but intentionally decoupled IT system—is often more flexible and has fewer underutilized resources. Transportable Environments When the data center is viewed as a collection of resources, the workload that runs on those resources should be mobile and easy-to-move. Whether a […]

SUNNYVALE, Calif.—If one simply drops an “o” into HPE (Hewlett-Packard Enterprise) in the appropriate place, it spells a word that is particularly fitting for the employees at the struggling corporation. They believe the esteemed elder statesman of an IT company has turned a corner onto the right street. Nov. 2 was the first official business […]

China’s Letv Cloud Computing on Nov. 1 announced a partnership with Intel to develop and commercialize new and progressive types of visual technology, such as 360-degree panorama, augmented reality and virtual reality. Letv (Leshi Internet Information & Technology) is China’s counterpart to YouTube. It is headquartered in Beijing and is one of the largest online […]

Any data storage industry executive or analyst worth his or her filesystem knows that as soon as NAND flash became enterprise-ready-for-prime time in the 2006-2009 time frame, the industry was permanently upended. One could argue that ever since NAND flash evolved to become the enterprise storage technology that dreams are made of, the storage industry […]

As far along as we are in 2015 technology and despite all the security solutions available, a majority of enterprises still do not have adequate basic perimeter security or threat responsiveness to protect their data centers and cloud systems. Hacker break-ins and data theft reports nearly every week in the news bear this out. The […]

SAN FRANCISCO—As complicated as moving an enterprise to a public or hybrid cloud can be, there are Internet service providers that actually can hide all that complexity and make the process 1-2-3 clickable, as unlikely as it seems. The Equinix Cloud Exchange, currently available in 21 markets globally, is one of them. Largely because it […]

Tech companies all around the world have been concerned for years about making STEM (science, technology, engineering, mathematics) more palatable for junior high school and high school students. While there are a number of national programs and initiatives hard at work on this, Oracle is now doing something very brick-and-mortar about it. The huge database […]

Tips for Improving Enterprise, Personal Security Online Nobody yet has been able to shut down intruders completely. We look at some basic, but sometimes overlooked, advice from five security experts. Always Validate that a URL Matches the Site You Want to Visit Often hackers and cyber-criminals will replace one character for a domain name or […]

Just when most people thought that Apple had already conquered the world with its iPhones, the company found another greenfield place to sell them: China. Well, there is still Antarctica, but the upside isn’t quite the same. The Cupertino, Calif.-based device maker revealed Oct. 27 in its fiscal year-ending earnings report that it added an […]

Which Types of Tech Enterprises Will Win, Which Will Fail in 2016 In the age of the customer, those that provide exactly what the customer wants will thrive. Here is a look at who will succeed and who will fail in 2016. Personalizing the Customer Experience Customers will reward companies that anticipate their individual needs […]

SAN FRANCISCO — Oracle OpenWorld wouldn’t be complete each year without these three identifiers: a) Larry Ellison slamming one or more of his competitors from the main stage; b) A Tier 1 rock star or two performing in midweek (this year, it’s Elton John and Beck on Treasure Island Oct. 28); and … c) Howard […]