Chris Preimesberger

IT in 2015 is all about speed and ease of use. If you don’t have both of those ingredients, chances are your app or platform won’t make it past the first year on the market. Turns out that this is what Push Technology is all about, too. The San Jose, Calif.-based enterprise messaging provider on […]

Make room for Awingu, a Ghent, Belgium-based developer of workspace business software, which has become the latest option on Microsoft’s Azure cloud. The deal, announced July 14 at the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference in Orlando, Fla., brings the unusually named company to the North American market for the first time. Awingu—the word itself has no […]

IT companies are getting creative with the way they position, build and power their data centers. Facebook, for example, built two data centers in Oregon that are positioned to use prevailing winds so that the air moves naturally through the large structures, helping greatly to lower the power and cooling costs of the 15,000 servers […]

The DevOps tool business is heating up with competition as the sector itself gets increased attention and traction from a growing number of enterprises. Providers, such as Puppet Labs, StackStorm, BlazeMeter, CA, HashiCorp and others, are coming to the fore with new agile-use tools, and they quickly are being welcomed into IT shops. The latest […]

Amazon has added some new security and compliance controls to its Glacier archiving service. Glacier is an adjunct feature to Amazon’s popular Simple Storage Service, so users need to sign up for S3 first. To use Glacier, users create separate “vaults” and fill them with archived data or files, either directly or by using S3 […]

AlwaysOn Innovation Summit Presents Promising Startups of 2015 by Chris Preimesberger Immerss, Dallas Founded in 2013, Immerss is a global online marketplace designed to help discover a variety of talent and deliver the best in live instructions and performance experiences. It does this through live presentations that connect talent with the audience. It provides an […]

Enterprise mobile-messaging provider Convo wants to do away with email entirely. The 3-year-old San Francisco-based startup has taken the internal social network/workflow collaboration concept to a new, more sophisticated level with the July 7 launch of its next-generation Web-based service for desktop PCs. Also made available is a separate Convo for Mac desktop version; a […]

Correcting Persistent Myths About Virtual Volumes by Chris Preimesberger You Only Need One VVOL for Every Virtual Machine You need one VVOL for Config, one for Swap and one for each vDisk. That’s a minimum of three per VM. Then, for every snapshot you need one more VVOL for each vDisk and one Memory VVOL […]

Fujitsu doesn’t update its storage systems all that often, but when it does, it goes all out. The Sunnyvale, Calif.-based company on July 7 unveiled the refreshment on the high end of its modular array line with a third-generation Eternus DX8700 S3 system and an all-new DX8900 S3 array. The company said that its new […]

How Enterprises Can Break the Cyber-Attack Lifecycle by Chris Preimesberger Breaking the Cyber-Attack Lifecycle Cybercrime is an estimated $1 trillion industry. Every organization with digital assets is vulnerable to attack, and the growing sophistication of cyber-criminals and their evolving tactics only increase the chance of a security breach involving the theft of sensitive data. Effective […]

EMC has decided that it doesn’t want to compete in the file sync-and-sharing and calendar business anymore. The storage and virtualization giant revealed July 7 that it has sold Syncplicity, a cloud-based all-purpose business app that works with cloud or on-premises storage, to private investment firm Skyview Capital. Just as it did in May 2012 […]

Lantronix is connecting some important cross-platform dots between users, printers and mobile and desktop devices of all kinds. The Irvine, Calif.-based networking software and hardware company on July 7 unveiled a new version of its xPrintServer Office device that enables enterprise employees to print documents or images wirelessly using iPhones, iPads, Chromebook notebooks or any […]