Chris Preimesberger

How Artificial Intelligence Is Working in the Enterprise by Chris Preimesberger Will AI Take Over the Human Race? Not to Worry Despite well-publicized warnings from visionaries Elon Musk and Stephen Hawking about how AI poses a threat to the human race, the reality is there is no evidence that humans are in danger of being […]

Don’t look now, but IBM may have just saved Box, and Box may have helped to rescue IBM. Okay, that may be overly premature and even more simplistic, but it’s not that far off base. Old school (IBM) and new school (Box) came together June 24 in a landmark partnership in which the two companies […]

10 Reasons Tape Backup Remains Important to the Enterprise By Chris Preimesberger Backbone of Many Enterprise Storage Systems Despite all the new technologies, including the cloud, tape has been the primary means by which organizations back up and recover critical data for over 50 years. Pizza-Sized Reels at First The first tape reader/recorder had reels […]

SAN FRANCISCO — Remember the line in the 1975 Steven Spielberg movie “Jaws,” in which Roy Scheider’s character Brody is asked how big the shark is they were tracking? “You’re gonna need a bigger boat,” Brody famously says. Well, Docker is going to need a bigger boat to house all of its conference attendees in […]

Data intelligence software provider Blazent is taking the old concept of master data management to new levels. On June 24, it released a new enterprise platform designed to make it simpler and more efficient for companies to keep their data squeaky lean and clean as it moves through systems. Blazent Data Intelligence Platform features a […]

Database developers don’t get updates for their tool sets all that often, so when Dell Software on June 23 upgraded its popular Toad tool packages, it represented important news in that corner of the IT world. Primarily, Dell is moving Toad from a single-user tool to one that development teams can use in collaboration, no […]

NetApp, which has been relatively quiet on the new-products front while undergoing a recent big change in its top-level administration, announced June 23 that it is bringing high-end flash capabilities into storage systems aimed at medium-size and smaller IT systems. The Sunnyvale, Calif.-based storage and data protection provider, which recently named Executive Vice President George […]

SAN FRANCISCO — Sumo Logic revealed June 22 that it is expanding its analytics services for DevOps teams with a new application for Docker. Redwood City, Calif.-based Sumo Logic made the announcement at Dockercon 2015 here at the Marriott Marquis. The company’s platform is designed to give customers visibility across thousands of data streams and […]

Cross-platform data security startup Vera has made available new data protection for Microsoft Office 365 users, who Microsoft says now number more than 50 million. The year-old startup, which went GA (general availability) in April and has been growing rapidly since, literally breaks down IT security to its common denominator: the protection of each file […]

SAN FRANCISCO – Docker added software-defined, multi-host networking capabilities to its open-source container IT with new features that include swappable plugin architecture and enhancements for its three orchestration tools. The San Francisco-based startup made the announcement June 22, Day 2 of its annual user conference, Dockercon, at the Marriott Marquis. The conference, which sold out […]

VMware, longtime king of business IT virtualization, has been using some unfamiliar messaging the past several months. The terms “consumer” and “mobile” have been slipping into its nomenclature. “Consumer-simple, enterprise secure” has become the company’s mantra during the last few months. The consumer part is foreign terminology to anybody who knows VMware. VMware has been […]

Could Oracle, though still very profitable, be reaching a tipping point in its near-40-year history, due to declining earnings? Some analysts and investors may be thinking along those lines following the company’s Q4 2015 and end-of-fiscal-year earnings reports on June 17. Overall, Oracle reported subpar earnings to close out its fiscal year, failing to reach […]