Chris Preimesberger

How IT Can Improve Security in the Coming Year by Chris Preimesberger Better Predictive-Threat Intel Required Companies should stop reacting and start predicting—or start insuring. Cyber-attacks have become increasingly more sophisticated, so in 2015 companies should use an advance predictive-threat intelligence approach to security to better protect businesses against even previously unknown threats. —Webroot EVP […]

New IT Role: Combining Physical, Digital Security in Data Centers by Chris Preimesberger Where IT Should Be: Ahead of the Networked Video Evolution IT must be ahead of the evolution of networked video and how to support the applications via network-based infrastructure (network, servers, storage, broadband connections, etc.). The main driver for collaboration between physical […]

SAN JOSE, Calif.—Data lakes are the newest hot-button term in the IT business world, and so vendors connected with them in any way, shape or form are quickly jumping into them. A data lake is a massive, easily accessible, centralized repository of large volumes of structured and unstructured data. With the deluge of data now […]

SAN JOSE, Calif. — Data analyzer and visualizer ClearStory Data and Hadoop provider Hortonworks have set up a new partnership for ClearStory’s platform to run natively on Hortonworks’ Hadoop Data Lakes deployment. The companies made the announcement Feb. 19 at the O’Reilly Strata + Hadoop World 2015 conference here at the San Jose McEnery Convention […]

How New-Gen Flash Can Improve Enterprises’ Business by Chris Preimesberger Storage at the Heart of a Digital Business While the data center is the lifeblood of every digital business, the heart of every new-gen data center is servers and data storage. This is foundational for a successful IT strategy, supporting myriad needs of the performance-intensive, […]

IBM, which announced Feb. 17 that it is investing a cool $1 billion over the next five years in developing new-gen software and solid-state storage hardware, revealed Feb. 19 what exactly it is producing with a similar investment from 2013. Big Blue, currently No. 1 on the IDC chart in all-flash storage sales, introduced two […]

With cloud-deployment security a major concern for virtually all software developers, Google on Feb. 19 released to beta testing a new security-leak scanner for apps built on its cloud platform. The Google Cloud Security Scanner identifies security vulnerabilities in Google App Engine Web applications. It crawls the application, follows all links within the scope of […]

Data transformation provider Trifacta on Feb. 18 started a free trial of its software at Strata + Hadoop World in San Jose, Calif. Data transformation is all about preparing data sets to make them optimal for use in new-gen IT systems. Using this free trial, data analysts, data engineers and data scientists can now experience […]

Cloud-based big data analytics provider Datameer has released Datameer Professional, which the company describes as the first big data analytics platform in the cloud targeted for department-specific deployments. Datameer, which was the first big data platform purpose-built for Hadoop batch processing, now purports to be first to market with a big data analytics platform specifically […]

IT platform-as-a-service provider Pivotal is giving a good old-fashioned college try at herding cats in the Hadoop big data analytics realm. On Feb. 17 the San Francisco-based arm of storage and data protection giant EMC launched what it bills as the “world’s first open-sourced enterprise-class suite of big data products” that it sees as an […]

Nine Takeaways From the White House Cyber-security Summit by Chris Preimesberger Terrorist Threats Rocketing Up Since 2009 President Obama said in his remarks Feb. 13 that cyber-security-related terrorist threats to governments and companies have increased fivefold since 2009. He specifically mentioned the Sony Pictures hack of last fall. He also noted that more than 100 […]

STANFORD, Calif.—President Obama’s visit here Feb. 13 at the White House Summit on Cybersecurity and Consumer Protection was a high-visibility indicator that the federal government has made cyber-security a national security and public safety issue—and one in which private enterprise is sorely needed to provide innovation against an increasing number of cyber-attackers. “We have a […]