Chris Preimesberger

How to Attain Cloud Nirvana, One Integration Step at a Time by Chris Preimesberger New Cloud, Old Challenges Despite Forrester’s prediction that cloud computing will grow to $72 billion this year, integration remains a major obstacle to cloud productivity, cost benefits and overall growth. An Oracle-commissioned study found that 64 percent of respondents were unable […]

Enterprise software development continues to develop itself and its methodology in new and creative ways. Only a few years ago, most enterprise software development was tied up in proprietary development and major open-source projects such as Apache, MySQL, Linux and Java–not to mention mobile development for Apple, Android and Windows mobile and laptop devices. Now […]

IBM, which continues to pivot more and more of its intellectual property from servers and mainframes to the cloud, said Nov. 5 that it has built what it claims is the first intelligent security portfolio for protecting people, data and applications in hybrid clouds. Big Blue’s new Dynamic Cloud Security portfolio is designed to identify […]

Hewlett-Packard, whose storage division has been among its best-performing businesses for the last several fiscal quarters, rolled out improvements to its 3PAR StoreServ Storage Nov. 5 that enable users to add NAND flash-based capacity to their systems yet maintain legacy infrastructures. Because the price of flash storage is now down to roughly the same as […]

Virtual machine and cloud system security provider CloudPassage has released its latest version of Halo, which it bills as the only software-defined security platform purpose-built for cloud and virtualized storage infrastructure. The new capabilities announced Nov. 4 make it faster and more effective for Global 2000 companies to detect and react to security vulnerabilities in […]

10 Benefits of a Cloud-Based Storage Management System by Chris Preimesberger Global Management Instead of relying on the traditional data center by data center storage management system, with cloud-based management, the global storage environment can be managed from a central service. Regardless of the physical location of information, IT administrators are able to access the […]

The idea of democratizing the functions of invoicing and payments is about as foreign to most enterprises as displaying all their business data on a Facebook page. Accounts payable and accounts receivable have always been among the most impenetrable data silos in business, and they’ve needed a makeover for decades. That’s exactly why Viewpost went […]

SAN FRANCISCO—Google does a great many things, with some of its products and services receiving a lot more visibility than others. But many people do not realize it also provides a large number of networking tools and services for applications running in its cloud. At Google Platform Connect, an offshoot of its highly popular Google […]

Here’s a multiple choice question for all IT folks who think they know the cloud storage market. Which one of the following services do you believe holds the most business data overall: a) Boxb) Dropboxc) Microsoft SharePointd) Google Drivee) Salesforce.com If you chose Salesforce.com, you are on the right track. Salesforce is not a storage […]

Innovation is most often a subjective determination. Who decides who or what is innovative, and why? Being deemed innovative is often a decision by a person based on experience and knowledge of a particular sector; what is innovative to one person may be old-school to someone else. However, many people in the IT world seem […]

Three-year-old startup Capriza, which turns legacy enterprise apps into fully functioning versions to run on new-gen IT, said Oct. 30 that it has closed a Series C round of funding for $27 million. Palo Alto, Calif.-based Capriza’s previous key investor, Andreessen Horowitz, led the round, which added new participation from Tenaya Capital. Capriza will use […]

How On-Demand Networks Change the Way We Live and Work by Chris Preimesberger Video Whether you are at home using a streaming player like a Roku box or Apple TV, an iPad while commuting on a train, or a mobile phone on the go, people expect a high-quality, disruption-free experience. This could be streaming Netflix […]