Chris Preimesberger

Companies, especially those in the IT trade, have to be very careful with the word “guarantee” for obvious reasons. Lawyers, certainly, love the term. Infrascale, a Los Angeles-area-based provider of secure, cloud-managed disaster recovery software, apparently isn’t worried by it. On Aug. 5, as part of the general availability release of its Cloud Failover Appliance, […]

The Black Hat professional security conference is under way in Las Vegas through Aug. 6, and several thousand software developers, security administrators, vendors, government operatives, analysts and military officials are communing in Sin City to exchange ideas and sip a brew — or a few. As soon as Black Hat ends, DEF CON — which […]

The media conglomerate that owns the Condé Nast magazine empire plus a list of newspapers and Websites acquired its own data analytics company Aug. 3 to process and utilize all that content. New York City-based Advance/Newhouse, a privately held global and diversified media group and an affiliate of Advance Publications, announced that it has acquired […]

10 Tips to Taking the Sting—and Penalties—Out of a Software License Audit More and more companies are being audited by their software vendors—and the penalties can be costly. This list of to-do’s will help firms avoid such audits. Don’t Boil the Ocean The 80/20 rule applies, especially to software license management. There are usually a […]

Digital asset management specialist Canto has updated its frontline enterprise business productivity product, Cumulus, by adding several new features. The additions include branded portals, a new iOS app and an improved application programming interface (API) for more efficient integration with third-party platforms and enterprise apps, the company said. The new release, Cumulus X, became available […]

If you’re interested in shopping for “skater skirts” for under $100 or finding out what Blake Lively’s favorite evening wear ensemble looks like, then you may be shopping for those things on Yahoo from now on. The pioneering Web search and services company on July 31 revealed that it is acquiring social-oriented shopping site Polyvore. […]

Nlyte Software appears to be creating a new IT market segment with—oh, boy—its very own new acronym. The San Mateo, Calif.-based company has introduced what it calls the first data center service management (DCSM) package that combines a familiar acronym, DCIM (data center infrastructure management), new workflow capabilities and a turnkey integration into conventional IT […]

How Information Governance Is Evolving in the IoT Era The rapid expansion of business files and data from the IoT, coupled with new and amended data privacy and compliance rules, makes IG crucial to the enterprise. Defining Information Governance Information governance, or IG, is the set of multi-disciplinary structures, policies, procedures, processes and controls implemented […]

New York-based business management software maker Autotask added key mobile functionality to its platform July 30 by acquiring Soonr, a consumer-aimed file sharing and synchronization cloud service with an enterprise-grade feature set. Financial details of the transaction were not announced. Autotask said that Soonr customers will experience no disruption in service. The company also said […]

While enterprise and personal data security vendors are making significant headway in toughening up their products against relentless attacks from shadowy bad actors around the globe, those bad guys also are becoming more sophisticated. Cisco Systems came out with its biannual security whitepaper report July 28, and the key message from it is this: Enterprises […]

There a debate going around Silicon Valley about which might be the best-run company, and Facebook is always in the conversation. In its Q2 2015 earnings report July 29, the social network reported revenue of $4.04 billion, beating Wall Street analyst projections of $3.99 billion. This represented a 39 percent increase in year-over-year revenue (it […]

SAN FRANCISCO—A bit of IT history was made July 28 here at The Exploratorium on the waterfront, where Intel and Micron introduced their new baby to the world. They named the child 3D XPoint (pronounced 3D Crosspoint), the first completely new memory form factor since Toshiba brought NAND flash to the market way back in […]