Chris Preimesberger

Delphix, which started out in 2008 virtualizing Oracle databases so they could be worked on and fixed while remaining in production, has elevated its game to a newer business: data as a service (DaaS). The Menlo Park, Calif.-based company on May 20 made an investment in this sector by acquiring Axis Technology Software, which enables […]

Hewlett-Packard Co. certainly did not have a red-letter day on May 21, when it presented its Q2 2015 earnings report. Nonetheless, its stock price improved 3.3 percent to $34.21 — largely because it still beat Wall Street analysts’ projections. The Palo Alto, Calif.-based IT icon had to admit that its quarterly profits were down 21 […]

PayPal wants to be the world’s so-called “digital commerce operating system” provider, not just a button to click for an online payment option. Though this sounds more like market positioning than anything else, there may be more than a modicum of truth in this bit of jargon. On May 21 at a press event at […]

10 Ways to Optimize IT Operations by Chris Preimesberger Understand the Complexities of Your Infrastructure IT application infrastructures are often heterogeneous environments made up of components from multiple vendors at various levels of the infrastructure stack. As new technology emerges, IT builds on top of legacy systems, creating an environment that consists of disparate components […]

Zuora, a growing software-as-a-service (SaaS) provider that offers cloud-based billing, recurring revenue, payments and billing solutions, announced a couple of news items May 20 at its annual users’ conference: a new product and its first acquisition of another company. At the Subscribed conference in San Francisco, the Foster City, Calif.-based company announced the May 18 […]

For most of recorded history, advertising has been a one-way experience: A message or image is put in a public place, physical or virtual, and people either see it or don’t see it. Most people see it but do nothing, some react but still do nothing and others actually are moved to buy the product. […]

Drobo, a maker of easy-to-use desktop and data center storage arrays, revealed May 20 that an investment group of former storage professionals has acquired the company. Terms of the transaction were not released. Drobo, which had been operated as an independent subsidiary of Connected Data, will become a stand-alone company that will continue to offer […]

Support.com, which provides turnkey tech-support services for enterprises, on May 19 unveiled Nexus Connect SDK, a software development kit that mobile app developers can use to embed advanced functionality into iOS and Android applications. Support.com’s frontline software, Nexus, provides the core of its cloud-based solution for Support Interaction Optimization (SIO). Nexus integrates with existing contact […]

Open-source software provider Red Hat on May 19 introduced what could turn out to be a popular new tool for developers: a scale-out shared file system service for OpenStack cloud infrastructures. It runs on Red Hat Gluster Storage using components from the OpenStack community’s new Manila project. The announcement was made at the OpenStack Summit […]

10 Factors for Developing a Top-Ranked Mobile App by Chris Preimesberger It’s All About the UI: Focus on the User Experience As mobile application usage continues to grow, it comes at the cost of the mobile Web. Apps provide a richer interface and additional functionality when compared with mobile Websites. In fact, the mobile browser […]

Even though it’s better known for enterprise and consumer laptop PCs and storage drives, Toshiba is investing in marketing entire new data center systems. The venerable Irvine, Calif.-based company unveiled some new machines May 18 that are designed to address the hot categories of scale-out object storage, big data analytics, virtualization and active archives. One […]

Nexenta, one of the few big data storage providers that specializes in direct-attached, software-defined storage, on May 18 launched NexentaEdge, a block- and object-storage system for petabyte-scale cluster stores. The announcement was made at the OpenStack Summit in Vancouver, B.C., which continues through May 22. NexentaEdge is purpose-built as a high-performance manager of petabyte-scale repositories, […]