Chris Preimesberger

SAN FRANCISCO—Hillary Rodham Clinton, odds-on favorite at this early date to become the Democratic Party candidate for president in 2016, admittedly does not know much about the inner workings of new-gen IT, but she knows a great deal about how such innovation is impacting key social issues on a world and national level.Thanks to her […]

Well, this is one way to give delivery vehicles a break on the roadways: Google has gone Down Under to develop and test drone aircraft that deliver packaged goods to buyers via the open airways. The Mountain View, Calif.-based IT services giant revealed Aug. 29 that it has had a team in Australia for more […]

49ers Win Big With Their Super High-Tech, Solar-Powered Levi’s Stadium by Chris Preimesberger New-Gen IT for New-Gen Sports Stadium Levi’s, one of the oldest and most well-known of the old-line San Francisco-based corporate enterprises, has its name on the gleaming new stadium, but many other Silicon Valley corporations are evident inside. Names such as Intel, […]

VMware Bridges Old-School and New-Gen at VMworld 2014 by Chris Preimesberger VMware Taking a Cue From Apple? Host At VMworld, VMware set up an “Expert Bar,” similar to what Apple calls a “Genius Bar” at its retail store locations. Here, any interested conference-goer can have a question answered or obtain product and/or services information at […]

Data Breach Lessons Learned From the Trenches by Chris Preimesberger Everyone Is Vulnerable Every sector is susceptible to a data breach, and when cyber-criminals find vulnerabilities, they will use them time and again to attack similar industry organizations. Organizations can significantly reduce the costs and reputational fallout by having a strong IT security posture, chief […]

It had to happen at some point. Seagate Technology announced Aug. 26 that it is now shipping the world’s first 8TB hard disk drive to its frontline customers. Such a large-capacity, industry-standard 3.5-inch storage drive is designed for scale-out data infrastructures that may be struggling to handle the ever-increasing amount of unstructured data that continues […]

Ten- and 11-figure buyouts are becoming astonishingly commonplace in the IT industry lately. There was the $19 billion buy of WhatsApp by Facebook in February, the $11 billion acquisition of Autonomy by HP in 2011, and a slew of smaller 10-figure deals during the last few years. Amazon contributed its own such transaction Aug. 25 […]

SAN FRANCISCO–More than 250 partner companies of host VMware are in attendance at VMworld 2014 through Aug. 28, and a good many of them made news announcements of their own on Aug. 25. Here are some of the announcements in roundup form. To read about VMware’s announcements, go here. Egnyte Enterprise cloud services provider Egnyte […]

SAN FRANCISCO–Despite all the talk, all the marketing hype and all the new cloud products and services coming into the marketplace in the last eight or so years, a whopping 92 percent of the world’s IT is still being handled on-premises. You thought the cloud was taking over the world? Maybe in the future, but […]

One of the current impediments to a smooth online experience on any device is when the user needs to switch from one native app to another in the same session. Typically, the session is truncated by the user being redirected back to the device home page or browser and having to re-log in to the […]

VMware, which built its reputation on server and application virtualization a decade ago, continues to become more and more focused on people and their mobile devices. The company on Aug. 20 announced the acquisition of Santa Clara, Calif.-based CloudVolumes, a provider of real-time application delivery software that enables enterprises to deliver native applications to virtualized […]

Nearly three years into Meg Whitman’s reign as CEO of one of technology’s sturdiest and most venerable companies, Hewlett-Packard Co. is still in turnaround mode. When it will return to full-sail growth and profitability remains an open question. There was bad news and good news in HP’s fiscal third-quarter earnings report Aug. 20. The bad: […]