Chris Preimesberger

Twitter has been a publicly traded company for 14 months, and while it continues to immerse itself into the 21st-century culture as a go-to social network, it is still spinning its wheels in the financial department. The San Francisco-based messaging giant reported its quarterly and fiscal-year 2014 results Feb. 5, revealing significant improvement in Q4 […]

Business continuity provider Carbonite is connecting an important dot to its cloud storage service: Microsoft Office 365, which is expected to grow to 30 percent market share in U.S. small businesses in 2015. The Boston-based company, which markets to small and medium-size businesses, said Feb. 4 that it has added hybrid support for Microsoft Exchange […]

Qumulo, a stealth-mode enterprise data storage startup, revealed Feb. 4 that it has closed a $40 million Series B funding round. The action brings 3-year-old Qumulo’s total funding support to $67 million. The round was led by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers (KPCB) with participation from existing investors Highland Capital, Madrona Venture Group and Valhalla […]

VMware this week announced its OneCloud do-everything IT management platform plus its implementation of OpenStack. The company also acquired Amsterdam-based Immidio, a virtual desktop software provider. Financial details were not disclosed. Immidio will enable VMware to offer a full set of tools for workspace environment management. Together with VMware App, a real-time app delivery product […]

Becoming more aware about privatizing your personal data? Toshiba has an answer for home storage deployments. The Irvine, Calif.-based company on Feb. 3 unveiled its Toshiba Encrypted USB Flash Drive, a key-size device of up to 32GB in capacity that utilizes a hardware-based encryption process to deliver military-grade AES 256-bit encryption. The new drive uses […]

When SAP launched its super-fast HANA in-memory database five years ago, it renewed a slumping company by opening a new set of business possibilities. Since then, it has kept a regular cadence of releasing new and refreshed applications to run on it. On Feb. 3, the company announced that it has retooled its bread-and-butter business […]

SAN FRANCISCO—VMware is a kingpin in a complicated business: the distribution of computing, storage and networking using virtual machines running on other companies’ data center hardware. The next step the company sees is this: Make all that complexity and all moving parts appear—and function—as simple, easy-to-use applications. VMware on Feb. 2 unveiled a group of […]

Whenever large numbers of people with mobile devices gather in one place, hackers lurk in the shadows. Events such as this weekend’s Super Bowl are certainly a focal point for sports fans and gamblers, but they also are a window of opportunity for bad actors to do their dastardly, untaxable business. Following a year of […]

Rise of the Multicloud Enterprise: Key Trends to Watch in 2015 by Chris Preimesberger Number, Types of Cloud Services Will Rise Responding to increasing pressures to reduce costs while increasing productivity, enterprise IT departments will sharply increase their adoption of cloud services, definitively shifting the balance from client/server to cloud-delivered applications. By the end of […]

10 Ways CIOs Can Invest Like a CFO, Manage Like a CEO by Chris Preimesberger Make Smarter Spending Decisions Gartner Research estimates the average IT budget will grow by a mere 1 percent in 2015 while the CIO’s scope of responsibilities continues to expand. CIOs must run lean and smarter—cutting costs while investing in transformative […]

Sometimes, it’s difficult to figure what Wall Street and investors are thinking. Amazon.com, which on Jan. 29 reported that it netted a loss in fiscal 2014 and also revealed that its fourth-quarter profit slipped, nonetheless saw its stock price improve 12 percent in after-hours trading. The stock closed at $311.78 and then shot up $38.15 […]

Tips for Avoiding Pitfalls That Plague Startup Teams by Chris Preimesberger Research for the Right Talent Be able to speak enough “programmer” to know exactly what type of people or development team is needed. At the very least, know the differences between PHP, Ruby, Python, Java, HTML, CSS, iOS, and other programming languages as well […]