Chris Preimesberger

Rubrik, which makes no bones about wanting to replace all conventional data backup-and-recovery point products that have taken 30-plus years for other people to develop, has added new functionality to its core data-management system.The Palo Alto, Calif.-based company on Aug. 19 released version 2.0 of Rubrik Converged Data Management, which it claims will provide complete […]

Seagate Technology, which is making a sharp move into providing cloud-storage systems, added some important intellectual property Aug. 18 when it revealed it is acquiring longtime storage software original equipment manufacturer (OEM) player Dot Hill for a net $645 million in cash. The transaction is expected to close by the end of Q4 2015, Seagate […]

Ciber, a veteran IT products and services provider that brings in nearly $1 billion in annual revenue yet flies way below most people’s radar, has released a new product that many enterprises may want to use immediately: It automates application modernization. With operating systems, mobile and desktop business computers, business requirements and other factors constantly […]

BMC Software, a generational survivor of IT competition wars, is rejuvenating itself, thanks at least partially to a new product suite designed to help other companies update and transform their software management systems. The Houston-based company on Aug. 18 introduced Digital Enterprise Management, which aims to provide simplified IT orchestration so enterprises can focus on […]

Network data analytics provider Corvil announced an international deal Aug. 18 with iSIGHT Partners, a provider of real-time cyber-threat intelligence for global enterprises, to create a partnership to offer a new security package for joint customers. Dublin, Ireland-based Corvil makes an appliance that passively taps into network data and automatically discovers, decodes and reconstructs all […]

Researchers from the Georgia Institute of Technology College of Computing earlier this year found 11 previously undiscovered flaws in two of the most widely used Internet browsers—Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox. Worry not, however: The flaws have long been fixed. The security researchers developed a new cyber-security analysis method that discovered the holes buried deep […]

Seagate Technology keeps pushing ahead with new NAND Flash storage options, and they’re not all about solid-state drives. At the Flash Memory Summit conference Aug. 12, the San Jose, Calif.-based company introduced its newest solid-state, non-volatile memory express (NVMe) drives: the Nytro XF1440 2.5-inch and Nytro XM1440 M.2-size SSDs. Seagate also unveiled a new Flash […]

RethinkDB, a scalable NoSQL database that uses intelligence and automation to keep its data content up to date and available at all times, on Aug. 17 released a new version of its product that features automatic failover in case of a power failure or other unplanned outage. RethinkDB 2.1, tested in beta by developers for […]

SANTA CLARA, Calif. — When Tom Coughlin’s Flash Media Summit debuted at the well-worn Wyndham Hotel in San Jose 10 years ago, about 300 storage folks came to hear about how important solid-state storage was going to become in the future. Now the future is here. Data center systems are loaded with NAND flash, and […]

Mobile enterprise file sharing and collaboration provider Accellion has added a new cloud-based information governance and security enhancements package to its Kiteworks content platform. Palo Alto, Calif.-based Accellion, founded in 1999, is well-established, with more than 12 million users and 2,000 of the world’s leading corporations and government agencies as customers. Up until Aug. 6, […]

10 Tips for Successful Cross-Platform Mobile App Development Learning how to correctly develop apps across platforms such as iOS, Android and Windows is an important skill that can help developers get ahead and stay ahead. Beauty Is Relative to Platform In this image, you can see the Evernote mobile app running on iOS 8, Android […]

Chuck Robbins has been CEO of Cisco Systems only since July 26. But despite his rookie status, he’s the man in charge now that longtime leader John Chambers has moved to the boardroom. At the first earnings conference over which he presided, Robbins got off to a good start with investors Aug. 12 when he […]