Chris Preimesberger

Few people keep their jobs for life, except perhaps the pope, members of the U.S. Supreme Court, and those who own their own businesses and don’t wish to retire. Oracle co-founder and CEO Larry Ellison may yet remain a lifer at the corporation he has run since he started the company called Software Development Laboratories […]

Logitech, which made its reputation developing useful untethered peripheral devices such as headsets and keyboards, is using its wireless intellectual property in new ways by connecting various other items around the house to smartphones and tablets. The Fremont, Calif.-based device maker came out Sept. 17 with a list of new home automation products for its […]

Strengthening the Security of Hadoop Projects: 12 Best Practices by Chris Preimesberger Plan for Information Security From the Start Your Apache Hadoop environment eventually will store some form of sensitive data if it doesn’t already. You should have a plan to secure your data within Apache Hadoop from the start in order to avoid time-consuming […]

Hybrid-cloud storage software provider Cloudian has joined a hornet’s nest of fierce competitors in the flash storage appliance market. The San Francisco-based company on Sept. 16 launched a set of new Cloudian HyperStore appliances to go with a new version of its Cloudian HyperStore storageware. Both are designed to run with on-premises-based hybrid cloud systems. […]

Solid-state drive maker Micron introduced a new SSD Sept. 16 for Ultrabook-type laptops, tablets and high-performance desktop PCs that may well be the company’s highest-performing client-side drive it has ever launched. The manufacturer claims that the new M600 SATA SSD has improved power efficiency, faster performance, and increased durability and lifespan. The drive comes with […]

Oracle filled a gap in its storage and content-management portfolio with the acquisition of Louisville, Colo.-based Front Porch Digital. Terms of the deal, announced Sept. 15, were not revealed by Oracle. Front Porch’s content-storage manager connects on-site and cloud data storage. It is a purpose-built system designed to simplify complex workflows inherent in migrating, managing […]

Apple’s Sept. 9 introduction of the Apple Watch and the two new, larger iPhones was big in the device world, but the most important long-term news clearly was CEO Tim Cook’s announcement of Apple Pay. “Every day between credit and debit, we spend $12 billion. That’s more than $4 trillion a year, and that’s just […]

Few data storage and protection companies provide all of the following in one system: hybrid on-site storage/in-cloud storage, data deduplication on a granular (block-level) basis, data replication, disaster recovery, firewalls and phishing/spam prevention. Barracuda Networks is one that does. In fact, it converges all of the above in a plug-and-play data center appliance. It turns […]

11 Things You Should Know About IoT Processing Requirements by Chris Preimesberger Plan for Speed Ingest high velocity and large volumes of data produced by sensors and devices in real time. Naturally, a capacious storage system—either on-site or in the cloud—is mandatory. Enrich Fast Data With Existing Information Combine the incoming data stream with sensor […]

10 Things You Need to Know About the Hot DevOps Trend by Chris Preimesberger Adoption of DevOps Is Much Higher Than You Might Think Based on a “2013 State of DevOps Report” by Puppet Labs, 66 percent of enterprises surveyed are already using or are planning on adopting a DevOps approach. The industry leading the […]

BlackBerry, once the prima donna of the enterprise smartphone world but now barely holding 2.3 percent market share, made an acquisition Sept. 11 that should give it some major differentiation in the market. The Toronto-based device maker said it has agreed to acquire Movirtu, a U.K. startup whose specialized software enables a smartphone to have […]

Little did we know that back in June 2013, while on a special mission from San Francisco to London for the United Nations called UnGrounded, that a member of our 130-person group of traveling thought leaders would, in a little more than one year, become Chief Technology Officer of the United States. That person is […]