Chris Preimesberger

BALTIMORE, Md.–The chief warrior in the U.S. battle against the world’s cyber-bad guys is just as worried about having his personal data breached as any of us. Also, like many of us, he admits to being a bit bewildered about how governments, enterprises and individuals can fend off insider attacks, DDoS events, zero-day exploits, malware […]

NetApp, at its Insight North American conference in Las Vegas Oct. 28, joined a growing number of major IT companies in recent months who are introducing new-generation software specifically designed to run hybrid clouds. The No. 2 data storage maker launched a new version of its clustered Data Ontap operating system, Cloud Ontap, a new […]

Facebook’s advertising businesses are doing very nicely, thank you, as indicated in its third quarter 2014 earnings report Oct. 28 that beat analysts’ projection in all the important areas. Yet, as happens frequently on Wall Street, a successful company’s stock took a header based on a cautious and not-exactly-optimistic outlook. The stock dropped a full […]

All-NAND flash storage array maker Skyera is pretty good about finding ways to cram a lot of capacity into a flat, pizza box-type form factor. Two years ago, the San Jose, Calif.-based company offered 44TB into one of those; last year it shoehorned 72TB into the same size box. Now, with its new second-generation array, […]

EMC, known for its old-school yet highly successful approach to the market in the 1990s and 2000s, is now scrambling to stay relevant and ahead of the IT curve by gulping smaller, younger companies right and left. At this point, it looks like the data storage and security giant will buy anything that moves as […]

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.—HTML, the latest version of the Internet’s markup language that has been one of the pillars of the entire Internet for a generation, celebrated a milestone in October: The 20th anniversary of its acceptance as a standard by the World Wide Web Consortium, or W3C. The official date is thought to be Oct. […]

Let’s face it: When it comes to personal device and network security, most people are simply lazy. Even though they regularly see news about security breaches compromising major retailers and corporations, they often figure that a hacker won’t bother with them and that using simple–or even no–passwords on their phones and networks is “good enough.” […]

Bracket Computing is a startup with a lofty mission: It’s daring to show enterprises how to virtualize the cloud—which, as we all know, is already quite virtualized. The 3-year-old Sunnyvale, Calif.-based company came out of stealth mode Oct. 22 to unveil something called the Bracket Computing Cell, what it describes as the world’s first cloud […]

Facebook’s Creative Labs team on Oct. 23 launched its latest new app for iOS devices, called Rooms, which brings users familiar and unfamiliar with each other together in separate spaces around mutual interests. A Facebook Room is a stream of comments, photos and videos similar to Facebook Home, Twitter or Instagram’s feed, the difference being […]

One of the most interesting developments around enterprise applications is a new cloud-based security control layer for browsers that enables airtight utilization of any personal connected device for secure business use. Startup Authentic8’s service enables a browser session to take place within a secured container; the session then disappears completely after the task is done […]

10 Reasons Why Your Retail Store Needs an App–Now by Chris Preimesberger Consumers Are Intense About Embracing Smartphones and Apps Ninety-one percent of those who participated in the survey stated they have positive feelings toward their smartphones and their apps. Consumers Are More Likely to Shop at a Store With an App Two-thirds of those […]

It might have been a bit of a smokescreen Oct. 22 when EMC chose to reveal that it had acquired most of Cisco Systems’ 35 percent stake in the VCE venture at the same time it announced its fiscal third-quarter earnings report. Off the top, news of acquiring additional ownership of a hot company will […]