Chris Preimesberger

Acquia, a Drupal support cloud service, closed a substantial $55 million equity financing round on Sept. 28. New investor Centerview Capital Technology led the round, with support from existing investors, including New Enterprise Associates (NEA) and Split Rock Partners. The new capital will help Acquia scale its global operations, sales and marketing as well as […]

SAN FRANCISCO — When Samsung invited a group of tech reporters last month to a media event to check out its new phones — the Galaxy Note5, Galaxy S6, S6 Edge, and S6 Edge+ — it also previewed its new Samsung Pay service, which it officially launched Sept. 28 in the U.S. Samsung Pay combines […]

10 Ways Analytics Can Track the Success of Your Mobile App Analytics can now reveal a number of details about an app, including where it is being used and whether there are failures along the way of an e-commerce sale. Harvest App Store Views There are tools on the market that claim to be able […]

Developers, with all their code libraries, components and go-to code snippets they keep at hand to use whenever they need them, are always looking for good, cheap—but reliable—cloud storage. This is exactly where Backblaze comes to the rescue, and in a big way. The company on Sept. 22 launched a new raw cloud storage service, […]

If easy-to-use, scalable and high-performance data analytics apps aren’t the hottest trend right now in all of enterprise IT, then the pope is a Protestant. San Francisco-based startup Alpine Data on Sept. 24—the historic day Pope Francis addressed the Congress of the United States—became the latest company to unveil one of these solutions designed to […]

While moving to cloud services was the major trend for enterprise IT from 2006 to 2012 or so, building big data analytics, automation and mobility applications into the workforce are the other megatrends since then. However, even though investment in big data continues to increase in 2015, it’s starting to level off a little. On […]

A Checklist of Testing Tips for Developing a Mobile App To claim permanent real estate on the home screens of mobile users, apps must meet consumer expectations for speed, ease of use, responsiveness and more. Test Your Target OS Platforms Using Physical Devices It may be obvious to start your app testing by identifying the […]

IT systems integration giant Accenture will launch its own immersive, cloud-based, big data analytics platform on Sept. 23. The Accenture Connected Analytics Experience, as the New York City-based company calls it, is an immersive and collaborative service that makes data analytics more accessible and user-friendly for corporate employees. It runs on the cloud-based Accenture Insights […]

Volkswagen is getting barraged from all sides after being caught at, and ultimately admitting to, purposely loading software into its catalytic converter computers that falsified emissions information. On Sept. 22, Volkswagen admitted that there were far more vehicles affected by the installation of this software: an estimated 11 million—a tad more than the 482,000 first […]

How to Manage Security for an Enterprise’s Human Endpoints The human factor is key in IT security. We list suggestions to help enterprises govern the human endpoint—or how people interact with any IT endpoint device. Step One: Establish a Hierarchy of Needs Form a deep understanding of your organizations’ goals and expectations for allowing workers […]

Information technology—and someone who knows how to manipulate it—is playing the central role in a major automobile manufacturer’s apparent efforts to cut corners and save millions of dollars in connection with the emissions systems of its products. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) alleged Sept. 18 that German vehicle makers Volkswagen and Audi sold 482,000 […]

Q: When does “thumbs down” mean something other than “No way,” “Wrong!” or “Dislike!” A: When Facebook interprets it as a symbol of empathy — i.e. “Sorry” or “That’s too bad.” Facebook is working on deploying a thumbs-down button, but it’s not a sure thing that it will be added to the social network. However, […]