Chris Preimesberger

The nasty Shellshock bug that surfaced late on Sept. 24 can easily take down Linux and Unix operating systems and cause widespread havoc because it delves deeper into the operating system kernel than any previous worm, a veteran security expert told eWEEK. Because Shellshock uses as entrance the common command execution shell known as bash […]

A growing trend in new-generation IT is the increasing availability of new, intuitive development toolkits—along with corresponding professional services—for enterprise IT staff to use in fine-tuning apps and cloud services for specific lines of business. For example, cloud services for health-care providers are vastly different and take in widely varying data sets than do cloud […]

10 Ways Enterprises Can Best Prepare for DDoS Attacks by Chris Preimesberger Stay Informed While it may seem obvious, IT decision-makers must continually absorb as much knowledge as possible. A global survey by BT of IT decision-makers in large organizations found that organizations tend to review their DDoS response plan on average every 16 months, […]

Austin, Texas-based Magnitude Software, a provider of enterprise information management software, revealed Sept. 24 that it has secured up to $100 million in capital investment. The round is a co-investment led by Audax Group. Chairman and CEO Chris Ney said the company will use the investments to further build the company through product innovation, organic […]

Storage Station received an email from Dell on Sept. 23 citing a recent IDC storage industry report that said “Dell Storage has surpassed EMC as the No. 1 leading vendor in storage capacity shipped for the first half of 2014.” IDC, which charts both internal (server-housed) and external (non-server-housed) storage hardware and software market numbers […]

Cloud security startup FireLayers, which specializes in protecting applications running in cloud systems, knows that enterprises have to trust many—some might say too many—people that have access to files that are both sensitive and important.The Redwood City, Calif.-based startup, which came out of stealth mode in February, wants to upgrade the way companies secure and […]

Data storage not only has become commoditized; it’s now being used as live bait in order to sell hardware. Hewlett-Packard, whose storage business remains one of the most successful across its entire product line, revealed Sept. 23 that it will now provide a 1TB virtual storage appliance license free of charge to all purchasers of […]

Like most things in IT, everything old eventually becomes new again. France-based global telecom Orange on Sept. 22 breathed new life into the venerable virtual private network by adding a new-generation Business VPN option to its list of Internet services. The new-gen ingredient inside the service is that instead of using separate access ports for […]

Alibaba, the huge e-commerce merchant that sounds Middle Eastern but actually is headquartered in China, made financial history Sept. 19 with its record IPO on the New York Stock Exchange. The $21.8 billion that the e-commerce giant garnered on its first day as a public company easily eclipsed the previous record, $19.7 billion raked in […]

10 Pitfalls to Avoid When Implementing a BYOD Program by Chris Preimesberger Not Communicating With Employees Without open communication with employees, no BYOD program can be successful. A BYOD rollout should flow downhill. Executives should enroll their devices first, communicating the capabilities and privacy features before deploying throughout the organization. That way, employees are aware […]

Key Service Attributes That Can Make or Break a Cloud Solution by Chris Preimesberger The Seven Service Attributes The seven service attributes that matter when choosing cloud services are: reliability, availability, security, scalability, quality of service (QoS), service-level agreement flexibility and support. Can I Count on You? One of the most critical attributes with which […]

SAP’s U.S. subsidiary, SAP America, picked up one of the most well-known and utilized enterprise cloud services Sept. 18 when it announced the acquisition of Concur, a Bellevue, Wash.-based travel and expense management cloud service. The company did not come inexpensively for SAP. The purchase price of $8.3 billion ($129 per share) represented a 20 […]