Chris Preimesberger

Thirty-nine Silicon Valley C-level executives joined forces April 1 in a concerted protest against the recently enacted Indiana “religious freedom” law—in addition to other anti-LGBT bills pending or signed in to law in states around the country—that are now under attack all over the United States. Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff (pictured), one of the first […]

Concur, the world’s largest provider of cloud-based travel and expense management services, said April 1 at its annual users’ conference that its aggregate data clearly shows that Starbucks is the world’s No. 1 destination for business meals and meetings. Of course, the coffee giant’s sheer number of locations is a major factor. In 2014, there […]

IT Tax Season: What’s Taxing Your Wireless Infrastructure? by Chris Preimesberger Tax #1: The Junk Band 2.4GHz, with limited channels available, is commonly called the junk band. It’s still used today, but remains clogged with interference from Bluetooth, microwaves and many other devices. This leads to disruptions in the WiFi and potential downtime. The 5GHz […]

March 31 is World Backup Day, which reminds all of us that we need to back up all our personal and business-related documents, photos, videos—anything else digital that we value. Those of us who have lost important files in the past know what a pain it is—and how much valuable time it takes—to re-create them […]

Facebook’s F8 conference last week in San Francisco marked a public pivot point for the social network, which is hardly your father’s social network anymore.Of course, Facebook has been pivoting internally for most of its 10-year history. Beside continuing to run the world’s largest and most influential social network — which is quite an accomplishment […]

10 Ways Enterprise Mobile Apps Differ From Standard Web Apps by Chris Preimesberger Connectivity Is Not a Given Web apps aren’t necessarily expected to work offline, but mobile apps must. Users expect full functionality, either online or offline. Context Enables Disruption Businesses have new capabilities for engaging customers, redefining business processes, driving productivity, cutting costs […]

Any IT startup company with the names John Thompson, Mark Leslie and Frank Slootman listed as angel investors is probably one that other investors ought to check out. Thompson, who was CEO of Symantec and on the short list for an Obama cabinet post, is now chairman of Microsoft. Leslie, a Stanford University professor who […]

Those rumors about cloud data storage are true: There’s so much storage now available—and there’s so much competition to get people to use it—that capacity limits are now a thing of the past. Amazon, the first Internet services provider to go mainstream with cloud storage in 2006, revealed March 26 that it now is offering […]

Data Storage Innovation: 10 Factors That Could Impact Your System by Chris Preimesberger Data, Data and More Data With the advent of big data, real-time analytics and intelligence, as well as the Internet of things, storage networks are straining to keep up with data growth. More is more in this instance, as more content is […]

Don’t look now, but Facebook, The Social Network, is fast becoming a multi-faceted, platform-as-a-service cloud provider. At its ninth annual F8 developers’ conference March 25 at Fort Mason in San Francisco, the social network announced the following: —that it has launched a new app development platform based on its original Messenger that will enable video […]

Four years ago, Hewlett-Packard improved its coolness factor greatly by licensing the Dr. Dre-Jimmy Iovine Beats Audio system and offering it as an option in its premium PCs and tablets. It was a legitimate selling point, especially for younger customers. Now that’s a thing of the past. There’s a different coolness factor coming. Last May […]

Foster City, Calif.-based Zuora, a quickly growing software-as-a-service (SaaS) provider that offers cloud-based billing, recurring revenue, payments and billing solutions, has landed a whopping $115 million in new venture capital. This latest funding round, announced March 11, brings the total amount of capital raised by Zuora to $250 million. New investors include public market investors […]