Chris Preimesberger

It’s no surprise to those even slightly informed in the IT business that hybrid—which combined both public and private cloud elements—is now the standard choice for enterprises seeking cloud providers. Data management systems that can combine control of public cloud services and on-premises applications on a single screen is the nirvana that all IT administrators […]

A year after the introduction of the General Data Protection Regulation in the European Union on May 25, 2018, the protection and privacy controls of personal data remain hot-button issues. Social networks such as Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, Twitter and scores of e-commerce businesses have felt the heat to upgrade the way they process, store and […]

Law firms aren’t particularly known for developing software. They’re much more apt to be protecting—or prosecuting—software developers in intellectual property litigation than writing code and testing applications. That’s where the celebrated Silicon Valley firm Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati has taken a different path. With dependable data privacy protection becoming an international and stateside problem, […]

The term “remote access software” describes a software program or operating system feature that enables a personal computer’s desktop environment to be run remotely on one PC or server while being displayed on a separate client device. Remote access software is commonly used by help desk personnel in assisting PC users when they’re stuck on […]

Today: Prophix  (corporate performance management) Company description: Prophix is a global leader in Corporate Performance Management (CPM) software on a mission to transform the office of finance through innovative approaches and technologies. Focused on the mid-market enterprise, Prophix helps finance leaders improve profitability and minimize risk by automating budgeting, planning and reporting so they can […]

Today: Cloud Elements (API virtualization and integration) Company description: Cloud Elements claims to bring harmony to the world of application programming interfaces (APIs), allowing software providers to innovate faster and plug into digital ecosystems. The company’s one-to-many virtualized API integration platform enables developers to unify thousands of APIs, build common data models for core business […]

This article offers a 2019 update on several of the world’s top Linux server vendors, a very important but often mysterious section of the IT world that many people know little or nothing about. This is because Linux and its various flavors, called “distros” (for distributions), are underlying operating systems that run applications on servers […]

Innovation in service meshes for cloud-native development got a lot more intriguing when Amazon Web Services announced its App Mesh at the end of March. And with the growing momentum with cloud-native technologies, such as Kubernetes, Istio and AWS App Mesh–and 47% of enterprises deploying to production multiple times per week, the question around the […]

Pretty much everything in IT is able to be virtualized these days, including all types of hardware, software and even services. But you don’t often hear about virtualizing APIs (application programming interfaces), largely because that’s pretty complicated to do. Nonetheless, Cloud Elements, a relative newcomer in the business but already an expert in API integration, […]

Company Name: mimik Technology Inc. (edge computing application tools; official company name is lower-case mimik) Mimik Technology inc. is a business-to-business software company headquartered in Vancouver, B.C. mimik provides a platform for building the edge cloud. Mimik’s platform enables ordinary devices to act as cloud servers and transforms cloud applications from a fixed, single-server architecture; to a […]

Here is the latest article in an eWEEK feature series called IT Science, in which we look at what actually happens at the intersection of new-gen IT and legacy systems. Unless it’s brand new and right off various assembly lines, servers, storage and networking inside every IT system can be considered “legacy.” This is because the […]

Enterprise-level security for multiple deployments–in clouds, using virtual machines or containers and in servers on premises–has been an impossible function to make available in a single solution. All of these deployments have, up to now, required their own security system. No one yet has been able to accomplish this extremely difficult problem. The problem has […]