Chris Preimesberger

It’s astounding how both sides can claim victory in a bitterly contested, years-long copyright infringement lawsuit. But both Oracle and third-party licensee Rimini Street have managed to do just that. Oracle claimed victory and a $50 million judgment against the third-party consulting firm over misuse of its licensed software. Rimini Street, the consulting firm, claimed […]

8 Best Practices for Successful New Cloud Deployments We look at key steps CIOs should take to ensure that they end up on the successful side of the cloud adoption curve. Define the Project Clearly define the transformation of your IT to a cloud-based infrastructure as a strategic project for the business—never, ever, as an […]

AMD on Oct. 21 put forth a new embedded processor line that is sort of versatile, to say the least: It can run everything from medical imaging applications to 4K video slot machines — and plenty of other things in between. The Gen 2 R-series chips, introduced at a media event in San Francisco, also […]

Oct. 21, 2015 brought more evidence of the continuing consolidation of vendors in the technology hardware space. Following by nine days Dell’s record-setting $67 billion acquisition of world storage king EMC, hard drive maker WD (also known as Western Digital) said it will buy flash storage vendor SanDisk for $19 billion. Dependent upon a SanDisk […]

Tech Executives Dominate CEO Rankings for 2015 Four out of the top 10 CEOs in the United States—led by Apple’s Tim Cook—run tech companies, according to a new listing from ExecRank. No. 1:  Tim Cook, Apple Tim Cook is the CEO of Apple and serves on its board of directors. Before being named CEO in […]

In an obvious smokescreen on the same day it released news of its quarterly earnings information, Yahoo said Oct. 20 that it has signed a search advertising deal with Google, its longtime rival in that very business. The venerable Web services, search and advertising company had to report that its revenue again has slipped–this time […]

Thales Group, a longtime securer of virtualized systems and a provider of data protection to the financial services, manufacturing, government and technology sectors, revealed Oct. 19 that it will acquire data-centric protection firm Vormetric for $400 million. Data-centric security defines a trend in IT in which the primary function is the management and manipulation of […]

Michael Dell filed a blog post Oct. 19, one week after announcing the largest, most comprehensive IT merger in history: the acquisition of EMC, VMware and the rest of the vast consoritum of companies that made up the EMC empire. Dell has always wanted his company to be the No. 1 one-stop shop for enterprise […]

If government agents, say in Syria or North Korea, happen to target your Facebook account and are curious about the cat video, food image or government secret you posted, worry not: Facebook will detect any ostensible intrusions and warn you. Facebook said Oct. 19 that it will immediately begin notifying users if it believes their […]

Hewlett-Packard and 3M are teaming up for a new security product that will prevent wandering eyes from stealing information off your laptop screen. The two companies said Oct. 14 that they are now collaborating to integrate new 3M privacy screens into HP’s notebook and laptop PCs. The new screens, which work similarly to traffic signals […]

A respected security industry researcher revealed Oct. 16 that it is seeing a major difference of opinion between consumers and cyber-security and IT professionals regarding the securability of connected devices. Almost two-thirds (64 percent) of consumers who use mobile connected Internet of things items, such as smartwatches, health monitors, connected cars and mobile videocams are […]