Chris Preimesberger

Three years and five days after Marissa Mayer was named Yahoo CEO, stopping a revolving-door in the chief’s office at the pioneering Web services company, Yahoo has stabilized its revenue streams but is still having issues making the business profitable. Following a profitable quarter in Q1 2015, the Sunnyvale, Calif.-based company on July 21 reported […]

We get pelted every day with so many news stories about IT failures, hacker attacks, zero-day exploits and inside-job data breaches that we’re in danger of becoming numb to them. Too much of anything will do that to you. But the July 8 crashes that hit a handful of well-known organizations stand alone, even against […]

How Cyber-Attacks Continue to Evolve, Despite Upgraded Security Chris Preimesberger Targets Are Evolving It’s not always clear, or even measurable, who is responsible for a data breach on the enterprise side, but that doesn’t stop heads from rolling. The Sony hack notably exposed the raw thoughts of many employees, but the main casualty was Amy […]

Miami-based cloud storage startup Cloud-Clout on July 20 introduced a new data storage system that encrypts and fragments users’ data across multiple clouds around the world and claims to provide what it calls “bulletproof” data protection. Cloud-Clout’s software utilizes a redundant array of independent clouds to prevent data loss and ensure that users’ files are […]

Dell had storage news on July 20, but it wasn’t about a new array or new features for one of their storage systems. It was about the company positioning itself to be known as the low-price leader for all flash storage. The Round Rock, Texas-based IT giant is lowering its NAND flash array pricing to […]

Flash storage continues to replace spinning disk drives at a steady pace as prices diminish and the longevity of the media itself improves. Hybrid solid-state and disk-drive storage provider Nimble Storage, taking advantage of this trend as data centers get refreshed, has announced new enterprise-grade capabilities to its Adaptive Flash platform that include service-level agreement […]

Another indicator that video and messaging continue to be increasingly important developmental factors in new-gen IT came to the fore July 17, when Yahoo quietly soft-launched a new version of its free Messenger mobile app that provides video behind texting. The Livetext for iOS app may be the closest thing to turning a smartphone into […]

Key Indicators That You’re Building a Stitched-Together ‘FrankenCloud’ by Chris Preimesberger You’re Wasting Time on Third-Party Integrations If your company is built on a FrankenCloud, then your applications are running in separate cloud environments. This means it’s nearly impossible for departments to smoothly hand off information and automate processes. As a result, your IT department […]

This is hardly your father’s Seagate Technology anymore. Making spinning-disk and solid-state drives (SSDs) for PCs, servers and other machines—not to mention those small but capacious desktop storage devices—is where the company has been for 37 years, and it’s still among the world leaders in 2015. But as a number of other old-line IT hardware […]

IBM isn’t often mentioned in the media as being a leader in the rapidly growing Internet of things market, but it is quietly putting out a substantial corporate investment in it. Back in March, the venerable all-purpose IT provider announced that it was investing a cool $3 billion and hiring 1,400 workers into a new […]

San Francisco-based startup Mesosphere, whose open source-based distributed operating system runs data centers and clouds belonging to Twitter, Yelp, Groupon and others, released its first developer program and software development kit on July 15. The software development kit (SDK) will serve as the tool set for creating data center services that will run on the […]

Delphix, the database virtualizer which has pivoted to becoming an early entrant into the nascent DaaS market (data-as-a-service, not be confused with desktop-as-a-service), has reeled in a $75 million funding influx led by Fidelity Management and Research Company. Additional investors include Credit Suisse NEXT Investors, LLC, a fund managed within Credit Suisse Asset Management, The […]