Chris Preimesberger

Eight Ways to Use Open Source for More Effective Data Protection by Chris Preimesberger Take a Page From EMEA’s Book U.S.-based organizations need to place a greater emphasis on personal data protection. European businesses prioritize these efforts, and, as a result, the citizenry in the European Union maintains considerably more control over private data than […]

SAN FRANCISCO—ThreatStream, a 2-year-old startup that makes an enterprise-class threat intelligence platform, said on April 21 that it will soon make available what it claims is the first iOS “threat intelligence” app for the Apple Watch. ThreatStream positions its Optic platform as the “first crowd-sourced cyber security intelligence solution.” Optic aggregates millions of threat indicators […]

SAN FRANCISCO—Enterprise security provider EdgeWave revealed April 21 that it is teaming up with Chinese IT giant Huawei to provide a joint, proactive solution that enterprises can use to defend themselves against advanced cyber-threats. The announcement was made at the RSA Conference 2015 here at the Moscone Center. Huawei decided to pull back its own […]

SAN FRANCISCO — Raytheon Co., a U.S. defense contractor and the world’s largest maker of guided missiles, revealed April 20 that it is acquiring information security provider Websense Inc. for about $1.9 billion. It then will spin out the acquisition into a new company. The deal was announced at the RSA Security 2015 conference here […]

SAN FRANCISCO—This might be the first time you’ve read about cloud-native applications, and if it is, it certainly won’t be the last. VMware, which frankly hasn’t made a lot of news lately regarding new products or services, on April 20 launched a couple of in-development open source-based products, Project Lightwave and Project Photon, which essentially […]

SAN FRANCISCO — The RSA Security conference, which takes place here this week, is one of the most trying times of the year for many technology journalists. Why? Everything in IT touches security, and just about every IT company in the world touches — you guessed it — security. In short, that describes the annual […]

What Surprises Dell Research Has in Its Five-Year Product Plan By Chris Preimesberger Dell Using a Hybrid Innovation Strategy Dell Research already has a deep pool of talent and intellectual property from which to pull in researching new products and services. The company also augments its internal research with an extended external community that includes […]

Big data analytics market leaders Hortonworks, IBM and EMC Pivotal are competitors for business deals, but they also realize that there are major benefits in having their platforms align with each other. At the Hadoop Summit Europe conference in Brussels, Belgium, April 16, the companies announced that their Hadoop-based platforms are now aligned on a […]

User activity-monitoring and analysis provider SpectorSoft on April 16 incorporated a new wrinkle into its frontline product: behavior-based alerting, so users can better detect and prevent insider threats. It’s clearly a trend that security providers of various types are including analytics-based elements in their solutions to gather more data, and therefore visibility, about intrusionists. The […]

For all IT storage folks who can’t get enough of the huge trend toward NAND flash in place of spinning disks, you’ve got a new resource. FlashStorage.com, the latest entry into Actual Tech Media’s expert site network, launched April 15 as an industry resource for IT professionals to educate themselves on the products and services […]

SANTA CLARA, Calif.—Network infrastructure supplier QLogic Corp. on April 14 introduced a new Ethernet industry association called the 2550100 Alliance. This is a group of server, storage, networking and software companies that have pledged to coordinate bringing new network solutions to the enterprise IT market based on new 25Gb, 50Gb and 100Gb Ethernet technology. The […]

With data breaches in large companies continually in the news—never mind all the smaller companies and individuals who have been hit—it’s no surprise that a spate of new security companies is coming to the fore. One of them, Illumio, which does workload-centric security, announced April 14 it has landed some serious venture capital backing. The […]