Chris Preimesberger

Sony Pictures Entertainment Inc. employees, in the wake of petabytes of stolen video, files and emails from the company’s heavily compromised IT system, have resorted to old-school tech: using alternate communication services and older connected devices and systems to get their work done. The digital entertainment company’s IT system was hacked months ago and the […]

How to Distinguish a Cloud Poser From a Cloud Pro by Chris Preimesberger Four 9s or Five? As more companies transition important aspects of their businesses (email, billing, etc.) to the cloud, they want to know they’ll have the same access in the cloud as if their systems were on-premises. Cloud posers know this, so […]

Oracle received an early and welcome holiday surprise Dec. 17 when its stock took a jump up on news that its quarterly earnings and revenue numbers had exceeded Wall Street estimates. The earnings report snapped a slump in which the database, data center hardware and cloud-services giant had missed analysts’ revenue and profit expectations for […]

Verizon is now providing a way for enterprises to select a growing number of well-known public cloud service providers and install them into one secure network package–a private onramp to public clouds, if you will. HP Helion Managed Cloud Service and Salesforce.com on Dec. 16 became the newest public clouds to join Verizon’s Secure Cloud […]

Oracle has been handling big data-type workloads in its parallel databases since long before the term “big data”—and even the Internet—was born. Now that there is such a preponderance of business and personal data whirling around the globe every millisecond, a zillion more enterprises are paying attention to the potential value all this data can […]

“Predictive” will become a very often-used adjective in IT in 2015, even more so than it has in the past. How do we know this? Simply by looking around at where an increasing number of venture capitalists and private investors are parking their money: Much of it is in intelligent software that “predicts” the future […]

SAN JOSE, Calif.–IT evolves by modernization or by transformation–or both, depending upon the size of the system. Modernization is generally about upgrades and incremental improvement to legacy data center equipment, generally for performance purposes; transformation is about improving IT systems to solve new and more complex problems, Persistent Systems CEO and founder Anand Deshpande recently […]

Oracle has managed to get a new storage product out of the development shed before the end of the calendar year. This one is the company’s latest network-attached storage (NAS) appliance, Oracle ZFS Storage ZS4-4, which sports data analytics for pluggable databases, encryption and about 30 other enhancements. Oracle claims ZFS Storage ZS4-4, which is […]

10 Predictions About the Data Breach Landscape in 2015 by Chris Preimesberger Payment Breaches Will Rise and Fall With the imminent adoption of EMV chip-and-PIN technology in the United States in October 2015, the window is closing for hackers to easily profit from point-of-sale attacks on brick-and-mortar retailers. EMV stands for Europay, MasterCard and Visa, […]

Pure Storage, a young but fast-growing all-flash storage provider, on Dec. 11 introduced a group of new-generation, converged-infrastructure packages for enterprises seeking to refresh and speed up their storage IT. FlashStack CI is a new line of flash storage comprised of storage hardware, comprehensive reference architectures, deployment and sizing guidelines and single-call support, the Mountain […]

Datto, an under-the-radar but growing provider of hybrid cloud-based backup and disaster recovery hardware and software, said Dec. 11 that it is acquiring Backupify, which supplies cloud-to-cloud backup and recovery for software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Backupify, based in Cambridge, Mass., provides backup storage software for Web services companies such […]

Carbonite, one of the most highly visible of the consumer cloud storage providers thanks to a large-scale television advertising campaign, has a new CEO. He’s Mohamad Ali, former Chief Strategy Officer at Hewlett-Packard. Ali was announced on Dec. 4, one day after Boston-based Carbonite received an unsolicited, hostile $366.4 million bid ($15 per share, a […]