Chris Preimesberger

A Manager’s Guide to Handling Major IT Disasters To effectively handle disaster incidents and outages, IT managers need to identify major incident response workflows and have a reliable response team in place. Clearly Define a Major Incident When an issue causes a huge business impact on users, it can be categorized as a major incident. […]

Colorfully named DevOps platform provider CloudMunch is coining its own term — CloudOps — for its management suite of tools to build and run enterprise hybrid clouds. The Bellevue, WA.-based startup’s home-developed software package, launched Aug. 27, provides enterprises with a new-gen feature set for building, scaling and managing infrastructure and applications across various IT […]

Technology Milestones in the 44-Year History of E-Marketing E-marketing’s stamp on the world began with the first email sent in 1971, continuing through the rise of social networks and up to marketing automation today. 1971: First Email Sent U.S. programmer Raymond Tomlinson sends “QWERTYUIOP” as the first network email, and he is the first to […]

The shocking on-air shooting of two young journalists, Alison Parker and Adam Ward, from a Roanoke, Va., television station Aug. 26 was a scenario that could only happen in the 21st century. A disturbed man gets and loads a weapon, attaches a cloud-service video camera (like a GoPro model or similar device) to record his […]

SwiftStack has looked at object storage as a service as it exists today, saw that it needed an upgrade, and moved it to another level by enabling new functionality for it. Customers of the San Francisco-based startup, which already has clients that include eBay, Pac-12 Network, Time Warner Cable and Hewlett-Packard Co., say they are […]

Startup ClearSky Data has an ambitious business model: It’s built a new global data storage network and is fashioning it on Akamai Technologies’ automated content-management approach. Akamai is a pioneering network services provider for automating media and software delivery and cloud security solutions, heavily used by advertising networks. ClearSky Data wants to automate on-demand storage […]

Nine Key Factors That Identify Data-Driven Organizations Being data-driven has little correlation to company size and vertical industries. We highlight key qualities that define data-driven organizations. Don’t Assume Everyone Is Born Data-Literate The most progressive data-driven organizations continuously educate analysts and non-analysts about how to use data correctly. This data literacy training ranges from understanding […]

IT research firm IDC released a new report Aug. 25 that advises enterprises with a need to better handle their data for making strategic business decisions to look seriously at in-memory databases. Fundamentally, the researcher said that enterprises need to be doing business intelligence on hot and fresh data to make accurate business decisions and […]

SAN JOSE, Calif. — The conventional path of many IT careers is pretty standard all around the world: Study computer science in high school and/or college, obtain an internship at a tech company, network as hard as you can, and eventually work your way to an IT vendor or the tech department of an enterprise […]

Startup Mesosphere, which developed the first open-source-based data center operating system only during the past 18 months, already has expanded the scope of its young system. The San Francisco-based company on Aug. 21 introduced Mesosphere Infinity, the first real-time, enterprise-ready open-source data center engine that can ingest at high scale streams of data from the […]

Oracle on Aug. 20 revealed that it has agreed to acquire New York-based Maxymiser, a provider of cloud-based software that enables marketers to test, target and personalize what a customer sees on a Webpage or mobile app. Financial details of the transaction were not disclosed. Maxymiser said its platform optimizes more than 20 billion customer […]

Nuance Communications, the Burlington, Mass.-based technology company behind the well-advertised Dragon speech-to-text application, announced a major multiproduct launch Aug 18. Nuance specializes in several voice-related IT sectors, including interactive voice response (IVR), two-way messaging and natural language understanding (NLU) automation. IVR enables a computer to interact with humans through the use of voice and dual-tone […]