Chris Preimesberger

Trends in data storage in 2014 can be boiled down into three data points: 1) Increasing amounts of business and personal content are moving into cloud providers; 2) the software that controls and stores the content is becoming much more intelligent; and 3) prices to store it all continue to come down. All three of […]

You Should Be Thankful for Your Sysadmin: 10 Reasons Why by Chris Preimesberger User-Generated Problems Nearly half of admins indicated that they spend around 40 percent or more of their time reacting to network or user problems. Many users do not have a good sense for how long it takes to troubleshoot an issue and […]

Hewlett-Packard’s fourth-quarter and fiscal 2014 financials are casting some doubts on whether HP should break into two companies next year, as it announced in October. Investors will be happy to note that the IT products and services giant met Wall Street expectations Nov. 25 in general when it reported quarterly earnings of $1.06 per share […]

Big data analytics and marketing applications maker Teradata and Hadoop provider MapR Technologies have deepened their business relationship. The two California companies announced Nov. 19 an expanded partnership that integrates their technologies, aligns their product roadmaps, and will result in a unified set of products and services. San Diego-based Teradata is optimizing integration of the […]

Kroll Ontrack’s Top 10 Data Disasters and Recoveries of 2014 by Chris Preimesberger Water Damage at a Fire Call (Germany) A firefighter was fighting a fire when his Nokia Lumia 610 was damaged by water. He lost all of his data, including photos of family and friends. Kroll Ontrack was asked to help and successfully […]

Mobile Apps Are Main Focus of Innovators at DEMO Fall 2014 Showcase By Chris Preimesberger Ghostery, New York Ghostery, which won one of the five top awards—the DEMO God award—at DEMO Fall 2014, is a useful add-on for every major browser. It is available as an iPad and iPhone app that helps people around the […]

The nation’s top security administrator told a congressional committee Nov. 20 that China has been identified as a key international player that has the cyber power to take down the U.S. power grid section by section if it chooses to do so. So said Adm. Michael S. Rogers, chief of the U.S. Cyber Command and […]

Dell, Intel Open Doors to New IoT Solutions Lab by Chris Preimesberger Where to Go to Get Dell’s Take on Using the IoT The new Solution Center in Santa Clara, Calif., which Dell officially opened Nov. 18, offers its own data center to allow IT administrators and developers to test and refine new applications, as […]

SAN JOSE, Calif.—Steve Wozniak, David Flynn, Rick White and Lance Smith are onto their next adventure together. Wozniak, who had been mysterious about his next assignment following a five-year stint as chief scientist of next-gen solid-state storage maker Fusion-io, has joined startup Primary Data and its co-founder, Flynn, as its first chief scientist. Co-C-levels White […]

Workday, which specializes in enterprise cloud applications for finance and human resources departments, has smartened its cloudwares by adding mobility, advanced data science and machine learning algorithms into the mix. How do those new-gen capabilities help companies hire the right people, manage workforces and keep the financials sharp? By providing insights derived through facts, finding […]

It’s no surprise that several of the world’s most successful consumer-oriented IT companies are moving around big time into the enterprise market. Apple is the biggest name in this category, for sure. Google, at its origin in the late ’90s, was simply a search engine individuals used to traverse the Web. Disney, which once only […]

10 Ingredients for a Successful Enterprise-Led Mobile Initiative by Chris Preimesberger Recognize Mobility as Primarily a Business Problem Going mobile starts with the business, not the technology, and it’s essential that line-of-business leaders take the lead in driving this transformation. They must understand the key tasks and activities that must be mobilized and what it […]