Chris Preimesberger

10 Ways IT, Business Leaders Must Collaborate on Cloud Strategies by Chris Preimesberger Schedule Meetups to Collaborate on Cloud Decisions The process of cloud decision-making has changed big time. Fifty-six percent of business decision-makers are claiming a seat at the table, compared with 20 percent of technical decision-makers. This change reveals the necessity for active […]

NoSQL database maker MarkLogic, run by former Oracle and Symantec executive Gary Bloom, revealed May 14 that it has banked $102 million in new venture capital. That brings its total VC funding to $173 million over a 14-year span. MarkLogic, based in San Carlos, Calif., is a key player in the NoSQL market, which is […]

Qualcomm made a move into the Internet of things development market May 14 when it announced that it is adding six new cloud-service ecosystem providers to its QCA4002 WiFi platform and accompanying development platform. The San Diego-based wireless telecommunications processor maker said the addition of the services makes more efficient the development of devices that […]

Networking and data center systems maker Cisco Systems reported its Q3 2015 earnings May 13, and it was generally good news for investors. The San Jose, Calif. IT giant exceeded earnings estimates for the fifth time in a row, banking revenues of $12.14 billion, which outflanked analysts’ projection of $12.06 billion in sales. Revenue was […]

How Network Teams Should Adapt to Latest Hacker Threats By Chris Preimesberger Breaches Pushing Network Teams to New Limits High-profile security breaches are becoming more commonplace, and because of this, 85 percent of respondents said network teams are involved in security. A substantial number of people—about 25 percent—spend more than 10 hours weekly on these […]

SAN FRANCISCO—Salesforce.com, which has been in the rumor-news cycle lately as a potential takeover target by Microsoft and SAP, brushed that topic aside and made some other news May 12: It announced a new partnership with Sage, a growing U.K.-based business software provider for small and medium-size firms. Sage, the third-largest software provider in Europe […]

Nine Best Practices for Working With Hadoop in the Enterprise by Chris Preimesberger Promote Collaboration Around Performance When there’s a performance problem on Hadoop, there can be several culprits: your code, your data, your hardware or the way you’re sharing resources (your cluster configuration). At a startup, a single person—data scientist, developer and operator all […]

Automatic Data Processing—better known as ADP, the payroll service to much of the world—went into the big data platform business on May 12. And why not, with more than 600,000 client businesses and 24 million employees in the U.S. alone from which to access piles of metadata. Roseland, N.J.-based ADP is the payroll accounting service […]

There aren’t too many IT companies willing to get into the cloud virtualization business, because it’s so hard to do. And there aren’t many companies willing to try and virtualize entire workloads. But neither of those challenges has held back Bracket Computing. The Sunnyvale, Calif.-based startup on May 12 launched a new suite of security […]

On Wednesday, May 13, at 11 a.m. PST/2 p.m. EST/7 p.m. GMT, @eWEEKNews will host its monthly #eWEEKChat. The topic will be “Software-Defined Data Centers: The Changing Role of IT Hardware.” It will be moderated by Chris Preimesberger, who serves as eWEEK’s editor of features and analysis. Some quick facts: Topic: “Software-Defined Data Centers: The […]

LAS VEGAS—EMC is an awfully big company with a lot of resources, but no company can supply every thing and every service in a given IT “need” situation. That’s when partnerships come in handy. When it comes to DevOps, that trendy term that identifies automated solutions built by both development and operations people, EMC needed […]

moBack Inc., an enterprise Mobile Backend-as-a-Service (MBaaS) startup, launched moBack Enterprise, a self-deployable cloud-service platform that helps developers build and deploy mobile and Web apps faster and at a lower cost. The new toolset is designed to take the difficulty and complexity out of DevOps and infrastructure provisioning at the same time. Using moBack’s new-generation […]