Chris Preimesberger

In a classic Wall Street knee-jerk trading scenario, product-and-service review site Yelp.com had its stock trading on the New York Stock Exchange stopped early May 7 after the price spiked up about 15 percent, based on a Wall Street Journal report that the company was talking to potential suitors about selling itself. After trading was […]

Moving IT to a Public Cloud? Follow These 10 Best Practices by Chris Preimesberger Careful Cloud Migration Planning Will Pay Dividends Consider the type of workloads that you ultimately want to run in the cloud and whether each will be a permanent move or occasional usage. As with most IT projects, your pilot should start […]

Dell appears to be initiating a price war of sorts with its latest entry-level storage system. Dell Storage’s SCv2000 storage area network, launched on May 6 and made available immediately, is a relatively full-featured starter enterprise system that had been tagged at $14,000 per array, a price point that is unheard of from a major […]

LAS VEGAS—Not a lot of people realize that storage and data protection giant EMC makes a business productivity app, but they probably should. Syncplicity is a kind of catch-all business app that users say is very “sticky.” This is an intuitive file-sharing and synchronization cloud service that combines email, calendar and contacts into a smooth […]

LAS VEGAS—EMC has always been able to store lots and lots of files and data. But when it came to the processing of enterprise big data workloads, the company—which didn’t make servers—knew a few years ago that it didn’t have the new-gen capabilities to handle an anticipated wave of new big data use cases. To […]

Why Jabil Is an Innovative IT Product Maker You’ve Never Heard Of by Chris Preimesberger Connected Basketball Partially Developed at Jabil’s IoT Lab Jabil’s IoT lab at the Blue Sky Center is helping to develop new wearable, health care and sports devices, among other things. One of the most interesting of these is the Wilson […]

LAS VEGAS—EMC, which first introduced generic NAND flash media as an option into enterprise storage arrays in 2008, was able to skip an architectural redesign when it acquired startup XtremIO for $425 million in May 2012. That saved a lot of time and capital. But it took some corporate patience for the new addition to […]

LAS VEGAS—VCE, a highly successful company conceived by EMC, Cisco Systems, Intel and VMware five and half years ago, made news May 4 at EMC World 2015 here by announcing a new line of hyper-converged data center systems called VxRacks. The company said these new server-storage packages will enable enterprises and service providers to more […]

LAS VEGAS—EMC, which has been building machine homes for data and files since 1987 and providing enterprise-level software protection for that data for only a few years less, is now ramping up on its management of all that content. At EMC World 2015 here at the Venetian, the storage giant May 4 revealed a new […]

Trying to get people to synchronize their calendars in order to pull off a simple meeting is one of those common human problems that an app hasn’t quite yet been able to solve. Until Pick, that is. San Francisco-based startup Pick’s namesake app went into general availability in January of this year, has filled a […]

Sprint and Boingo Wireless announced a multi-year agreement that enables Sprint cellular users free access to Boingo Wi-Fi networks in 35 major U.S. airports. The deal, announced April 30, will include deployment of up to 40 million Sprint handsets for Wi-Fi offload at Boingo’s managed and operated networks. Sprint travelers with Passpoint-enabled devices will be […]

Anytime a smaller, younger company trying to make its way in the cutthroat IT software and services business lands a key partnership with a respected elder, it’s a significant win. Elastica, not the rock band by the same name, but a newcomer in analytics-based cloud access and security, has forged a partnership with networking giant […]