Chris Preimesberger

SAN DIEGO, Calif.—Iron Mountain, which opened for business in 1951 and knows a few things about how to secure paper and digital documents, came up Jan. 28 with some workable basic rules about how enterprises and individuals can do just that: maintain personal data security and privacy of data and documents. Data Privacy Day, an […]

Big Data Moving Beyond First Movers and Going Mainstream in 2015 by Chris Preimesberger Big Data Will Completely Change IT Operations Big data will reshape IT operations in 2015 at companies that realize these technologies and techniques must first be applied to internal operations, long before they’re used for marketing and customer projects. IT operations […]

Yahoo had one other major assignment in its Jan. 27 fourth-quarter earnings report, besides revealing its actual earnings. Investors clearly wanted to see the company’s plan for a tax-free spin-off of its shares in Alibaba. They got it, and voila: Yahoo climbed more than 7 percent to $51.49 in after-hours trading. Yahoo, which once owned […]

Twitter, which went public 14 months ago and now is feeling the pressure to get its finances into the black after spending its lifetime in the red, is improving its value proposition. The San Francisco-based social messaging network revealed Jan. 27 that it is launching two new features: private chatrooms and a service that allows […]

San Francisco-based cloud services provider GoodData announced major upgrades to its data analytics platform and an on-demand predictive analytics service for business customers called Insights-as-a-Service. What differentiates the enhanced platform from others in the market is the collective learning amassed within the company’s Insights Network, said Jeff Morris, vice-president of marketing. This includes petabytes of […]

Jan. 28 is National Data Privacy Day, and CyberTECH, one of the nation’s leading cyber-security and IoT-based ecosystem networks, is staging a daylong seminar on the impact the Internet of things (IoT) is having on individual and corporate privacy. The Data Privacy Day 2015 event is being held at the San Diego Gas & Electric […]

Cloud storage and collaboration services provider Box burst onto the publicly traded company scene Jan. 23 with its initial public offering, about nine months later than it had originally planned. But the wait was worth it. Its first day on Wall Street was wildly successful, with the company obtaining $175 million and the stock rising […]

We all know about wearables, such as Google Glass, Jawbone and Fitbit, which measure and record data points that we can see and feel and send them into a cloud account. But did you know you can also obtain a wearable wristband holding secure data storage that’s connected—but not to the cloud? It’s called The […]

10 Big Data Trends Apt to Influence Enterprises in 2015 by Chris Preimesberger The Rise of the Chief IoT Officer In the not too distant past, there was an emerging technology trend called e-business. Many CEOs wanted to accelerate the adoption of e-business across various corporate functions, so they appointed a change leader often known […]

Ford on Jan. 22 joined BMW, Tesla, Mercedes Benz, GM and Volkswagen as vehicle makers who have opened research centers in Silicon Valley, as close as possible to the neighborhoods where some of the world’s best software developers and architects reside. Ford CEO Mark Fields (pictured) was on hand to help dedicate the new center, […]

Larry Ellison’s 56-minute message at a Jan. 21 press event could have been boiled down to this: “Still faster, still more secure, but now cheaper than any competitor.” Addressing a full house of several hundred people at Oracle’s headquarters, the chairman and co-founder of the world’s largest database company unveiled the latest generation of its […]

Just when businesses are looking more seriously at ways to mobilize their employees and value chains and maintain control of their corporate data, Hewlett-Packard is coming out with a brigade of new tablets and other items for that express purpose. The company’s Personal Systems group on Jan. 20 introduced eight new mobile devices—seven of which […]