Chris Preimesberger

With the shipping date of Windows 10 now designated as July 29, a long list of businesses inside the worldwide Microsoft ecosystem finally have an actual date upon which to focus as new products roll out. When the launch date was announced on June 1, it set into motion a whole series of events. PC […]

Dell, which knows a trend when it sees one and is able to act on them a lot quicker now that it’s a privately held company, has started a new division to develop and market Internet of things-type products and services. That’s not all. The company has already come out with its first IoT product: […]

How to Spring-Clean Your Email Inbox and Be More Efficient by Chris Preimesberger For Starters, Send Less Email If you send less, chances are, you’ll receive less, which means that you’ll have fewer messages to sort, organize and reply to. Also, it’s okay to check emails in the morning, but hold off on replying immediately. […]

Google I/O Highlights Android Pay, Driverless Cars, Photos App By Chris Preimesberger Android Pay Enters the Tap-to-Pay Market At Google I/O, the company introduced Android Pay (pictured: Dave Burke), which will take the place of Google Wallet on smartphones. It appears to be very similar to Apple Pay in that it will power in-app and […]

SAN FRANCISCO—Google not only continues to pack additional functionality and usefulness into its standard apps, but it’s also bringing some key consumer applications alive for use when they’re offline. On Day 1 of the Google I/O 2015 developers’ conference here at Moscone West, the giant Web services provider announced May 28 that users now will […]

SAN FRANCISCO — Computers, data centers, cars, planes, smartphones and myriad other important items have operating systems. So why not houses? Google has thought long and hard about this disparity and has come up with its answer: Project Brillo. Introduced at the Google I/O 2015 conference here at Moscone West on May 28, Project Brillo […]

Cloud-based enterprise security manager Okta, one of the fastest-rising new-gen companies of its kind, now is not only protecting Google Apps, Android devices and Chromebooks but also providing enterprise management for them. On May 26, the San Francisco-based company announced new functionality for Google products, enabling users to centrally manage and maintain single-identity profiles for […]

Rubrik, a new-gen converged data management provider that boldly aims to replace conventional storage, had a couple of news items to share May 26: It unveiled a new plug-and-play storage appliance that simply seems to be too good to be true, and it announced a $41 million injection of Series B venture capital. So it’s […]

Data Management, Storage Questions Every IT Administrator Should Ask by Chris Preimesberger What’s the Right Balance of Fast and Slow in My Data Center? Increased performance is not always better, nor is it always necessary. Think about top-of-the-line sports cars—should every family in America own one simply because the car is capable of driving 200 […]

Houston-based publishing startup Knowingly Corp. said May 26 that it has acquired a portion of the assets of GigaOm, a respected IT news and information site that ended its run nearly three months ago. Financial details of the transaction were not made available. GigaOm assets acquired include the Website itself and the content library, which […]

Storage giant EMC, continuing to collect new-gen tools and intellectual property in its move toward becoming a full-fledged cloud infrastructure provider, revealed May 26 that it is acquiring hybrid cloud management provider Virtustream for $1.2 billion in cash. Despite the non-trivial cost of the transaction, EMC said that the acquisition will have little or no […]

It’s entirely possible that in the near future, an important new standard of security will have a name that resembles a globally popular lunch sandwich: BLT (bacon, lettuce, tomato). Right now, the acronym RSA, which provides the name for the most well-known data security company in the world, EMC-owned RSA Security, is the standard for […]