Chris Preimesberger

10 Application Failures of 2014 That Expose Importance of Monitoring By Chris Preimesberger Dropbox The cloud-based file-sharing company had a great first 10 days of 2014. Then a global outage happened on Jan. 10. The culprit? A hard-to-catch bug in the script used in an operating system upgrade. Adobe Creative Cloud When system maintenance needs […]

Creating passwords, remembering them and having to update them all the time has been a headache for most people for a long time. Storing passwords in a device or writing them down can become counterproductive, to say the least. Amid all this anguish, how does struggling with and juggling passwords affect businesses on a daily […]

October is probably an appropriate time to use a baseball analogy, so here it is: Apple keeps hitting it out of the park when it comes to posting its business numbers. Of course, what would one expect for a company that sells 262 million connected devices at an average 38 percent gross margin and banks […]

SAP, well-established for backend enterprise, analytics and cloud system software, is branching out into the wearable computing realm. Vuzix Corp., a Rochester, N.Y.-based supplier of video eyewear and smart glasses for the consumer, commercial and entertainment markets, revealed on Oct. 17 that SAP has released two new applications for the company’s M100 Smart Glasses for […]

Hewlett-Packard Enterprise Services on Oct. 16 announced some new additions to its cloud-based disaster recovery-as-a-service (DRaaS) solution, HP Helion Continuity Services. The previous release of HP Helion Continuity supported physical and virtual Windows servers and clusters as well as Linux servers. The new release provides users with more options with support of Linux physical clusters, […]

Apple Pay, probably the most important new Apple product or service to come out since the institution of the iPad in 2010, goes into general availability on Oct. 20. More than 500 banks have signed on to accept payments using it, CEO Tim Cook said Oct. 16 during the company’s iPad 2 launch event. Apple […]

When Steve Jobs was roaming the halls at Infinite Loop, Apple security around a new product launch was tighter than Spandex on an Olympic speed skater. On Oct. 16, the world’s most successful consumer IT product company indicated that it may be losing its touch on keeping secrets. Turns out that the launch of the […]

Two companies not particularly known for their footprints in the mobile software world, VMware and Hewlett-Packard, are nonetheless joining their talents to bring a new converged enterprise mobile management package into the market. VMware contributes to the mobile management software with its February acquisition Airwatch, and HP–which can’t match that kind of new-gen software–has the […]

Try as they might, Hewlett-Packard and EMC apparently couldn’t fit the pieces together for a monumental merger of two of the largest and most successful old-line IT companies in the world. The Reuters news service, citing sources briefed on the matter, reported Oct. 15 that the two companies ended months of merger talks as discussed […]

Salesforce, which has been all about mobile apps for most of its existence, is now offering tools and templates for building company- and industry-specific apps for smartphones and tablets. One of the more important notes here is that the tools and templates are not necessarily designed for use by developers. Salesforce1 Lightning, introduced by company […]

Brocade Communications, which has focused its business on Fibre Channel and Ethernet storage networking, has added disaster recovery for wide-area networks to its feature list. The new DR feature, introduced Oct. 13 but won’t be generally available until later this quarter, uses Brocade’s Fabric Vision hardware and software across data centers to automate monitoring, increase […]

10 Requirements of a New-Generation Cloud Storage System by Chris Preimesberger Single Storage Platform a Good Place to Begin Using a single, centralized platform enables you to capture unstructured data from your storage islands into one storage environment, sometimes called a data lake. You can add the capacity you need, when you need it. You […]